Climate, on the other hand, is a compilation of
weather over a minimum time span of 30 years.
Not exact matches
It is not about the nitpicking
over the exact
minimum extent, etc., it is about the fact that we are entering unknown climate and
weather territories where the jet stream is going to go north, the
weather will change drastically in the U.S. and northern Europe, and no one knows how drastically.
There is a
minimum model resolution that is needed to capture
weather phenomena generating precipitation extremes, for example for simulating tropical cyclones or precipitation enhancement
over mountains.
And remember, the satellite data are one small part of a vast amount of data that overwhelmingly show our planet is warming up: retreating glaciers, huge amounts of ice melting at both poles, the «death spiral» of arctic ice every year at the summer
minimum over time, earlier annual starts of warm
weather and later starts of cold
weather, warming oceans, rising sea levels, ocean acidification, more extreme
weather, changing
weather patterns overall, earlier snow melts, and lower snow cover in the spring...
Exactly where this summer's
minimum falls depends on what the
weather does
over the next few weeks.
Depending on how the
weather plays out
over the next few weeks, that
minimum is likely to fall somewhere between second and fifth place, they estimate — still a remarkably low level that shows how precipitously sea ice has declined in recent decades.