Sentences with phrase «weather records broken»

This past summer Australia saw 205 weather records broken.

Not exact matches

As Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria plowed through unusually warm oceans this summer, each one broke records, startling even the scientists who study extreme weather.

I left the amazing weather of Toronto to come back to off the charts record - breaking - heat of Rome.

It's the way he drove in the races, coped with the typical Spa weather, and often found himself breaking or setting records there.

Despite adverse weather conditions, thousands of spectators attended the event and witnessed some top - class action, with one world record, three championship records and 26 national records broken.

The weather continues to be beautiful, and my goodness I know I sound like a broken record, but what a wonderful boost to the soul it is.

But even without record - breaking heat, recent years have seen food riots from Bangladesh to Haiti as world agriculture was pushed to the breaking point by a combination of greater demand for food, biofuels and poor weather.

Never mind that this summer saw a record - breaking meltdown of Arctic sea ice, presaging rising sea levels and more extremely weird weather.

Less lift means an aircraft can carry less weight, but it also means an airplane — especially a weighty one — needs a longer runway in hot weather, a restriction that can lead to flight delays or cancellations like those caused by record - breaking heat in Phoenix last month.

The costly disaster follows on the heels of a record - breaking year for devastation wrought by the vagaries of the weather and longer - term climate conditions.

In the series of flights that the craft will begin in mid-August, it will fly to only 15,000 — 18,000 metres — in part because of weather conditions — but this could still break the glider altitude record of 15,445 metres, set by an earlier Perlan model.

Temperatures last year broke a 2015 record by almost 0.2 C (0.36 F), Copernicus said, boosted by a build - up of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and by a natural El Nino weather event in the Pacific Ocean, which releases heat to the atmosphere.

Understanding the cause - and - effect relationship between global warming and record - breaking weather requires asking precisely the right questions.

When it comes to extreme weather Japan's population have more on their minds than a repeat of last summer's record - breaking temperatures, when some 170 died from heat stroke.

2010 is on track to be the hottest year on record, and the northern hemisphere's summer has seen extreme weather and record - breaking heat waves on a global scale.

2017 is set to be in top three hottest years on record, with record - breaking extreme weather, according to the World Meteorological Organisation's (WMO's) provisional Statement on the State of the Climate.

«We have witnessed extraordinary weather, including temperatures topping 50 degrees Celsius in Asia, record - breaking hurricanes in rapid succession in the Caribbean and Atlantic reaching as far as Ireland, devastating monsoon flooding affecting many millions of people and a relentless drought in East Africa.

While it is true that weather affects the ultimate decline year to year, I don't think it is an accident that the last two records haven't just broken their predecessors, but smashed them.

Our Kentucky weather has been absolutely AMAZING with record breaking temperatures reaching 70's.

While they don't grow nearly as big as they do in California, they can actually be found all around Vancouver... and I can only imagine that they're enjoying this record - breaking hot and sunny summer weather even more than I am!!

I just LOVE when all the snow starts to melt (here in NY we have been having record breaking NICE weather - so not normal, but hey I'll take it) and the birdies are out and chirping in the mornings, the plants start to bloom and you get to start wearing less and less layers.

They tricked us a few weeks ago with some colder weather then the next thing you know we're breaking records and seeing temperatures in the mid 90's for several days.

Wink Ellers bike is now finished and we follow him to Bonneville where he fights the weather and other bumps in the road in order to try and break the speed record.

After the premiere, McDonagh joined Gleeson, Cheadle, and actors Liam Cunningham and Katarina Cas for a Q&A that covered, among other topics, drinking, the joys of playing vile characters, the irritability of Irish policemen, and record - breaking wet weather during the filming.

The very first logbook entry for the FX45, which arrived on our slippery doorstep smack - dab in the middle of the worst weather of 2003, was recorded by our design director, Darin Johnson, caught unprepared in northern Michigan, thinking he'd been smart to use the family ski weekend to break in the FX45: «Tires are awful!

2016 broke records for extremely hot and dry weather in most of the U.S. 2017 promises more of the same but even drought doesn't prevent mosquitoes and whether they carry West Nile Virus or some other blood - transmitted disease such as heartworm disease, the risk is very real for you and for your pets.

Los Angeles» weather - related woes aren't finished.On Monday, the area reported a record - breaking heatwave in Long Beach, Santa Ana and Newport Beach,... Read More

The only bad thing was the weather believe it or not record breaking temps throughout the island!

With the rest of the country facing record - breaking winter temperatures and snow storms hitting from east to west coasts, spending the coldest months of the year on Maui is your best option to escape the chilly winter weather.

Manchester Airport saw a 6.2 per cent year - on - year increase in passengers last month, breaking its all - time record in the process — thanks partly to the poor weather in November 2014 and the rise in long - haul traffic.

«Can the persistent weather conditions associated with recent severe events such as the snowy winters of 2009/2010 and 2010/2011 in the eastern U.S. and Europe, the historic drought and heat - wave in Texas during summer 2011, or record - breaking rains in the northeast U.S. of summer 2011 be attributed to enhanced high - latitude warming?

We are having some to the most extreme weather on record, with records not just being broken but totally obliterated.

Here in Minnesota we're having weeks of weather with highs and lows dozens of degrees above normal, records not just being broken, but blown completely out of the water.

All siding with its infinite growth paradigm, so I'm not surprised to see you writing counter-pieces to the harsh truth, which, as it stands, is that we have a pretty much dead and severely warming ocean, daily record - breaking jet - stream related weather incidents, which in turn are caused by polar temperature anomalies of +20 C as of late.

But I believe there is little doubt that the record - breaking scale and potential destructiveness of Sandy is due in large part to the amplifying effects of warmer ocean temperatures, higher atmospheric moisture content, and unusual Arctic weather patterns.

These patterns favor persistent weather patterns, not necessarily more record - breaking cold or warm temperature extremes.

«The world experienced a series of record - breaking weather events in early 2007, from flooding in Asia to heatwaves in Europe and snowfall in South Africa, the United Nations weather agency said on Tuesday.

The immediate cause of the record - breaking warmth is a strong El Niño weather pattern, in which the ocean releases immense amounts of heat into the atmosphere.

Right now in the Rio Grande Valley we've been in record - breaking, above 100 F weather for several weeks, and the «cunecula» (heat wave that goes from July 14 thru the end of August) hasn't even started yet.

[Response: Climate can be regarded as «weather statistics», of which the occurrence of record - breaking events is naturally one subject.

The one criticism I would level, echoing to some extent what Martin and Mike have said, is that it is a bit heavy on weather anecdotes (this record broken here; that record there), which draws attention away from the central issue of the statistics of extremes.

I am most concerned about wide scale weather pattern changes in West Central Canada and the Northern Plains states and find virtually no new investigation expect for the news reports of record breaking high temperatures in some of the coldest regions of the world..

Black Saturday wrote itself into Victoria's history with record - breaking weather conditions and bushfires of a scale and ferocity that tested human endurance.

To me, one remarkable aspect of this summer's ice minimum extent is that it came very close to last year's record - breaking decline, yet there was * not * a highly unusual weather pattern associated with it like last year, in fact conditions were relatively normal.

If there * had * been some anomalous weather pattern, I think we would have seen last summer's record broken.

Another way of putting it is that if the weather record that was broken last week was set last year then we're probably in the midst of a rapid change in climate.

Whenever there is a new record - breaking weather event, such as record - high temperatures, it is natural to ask whether the occurrence of such an event is due to a climate change.

thus, it will take longer and longer for cold / cooler weather records to be broken, whereas hot / warmer records will be broken more and more frequently.

Indeed, the record - breaking losses in the past couple of years could easily be due to natural fluctuations in the weather, with summer sea ice increasing again over the next few years.

With record - breaking temperatures year after year and escalating extreme weather and climate impacts, the need for adaptation has long been apparent.