Sentences with phrase «weather records go»

But because high - quality weather records go back only about 100 years, most scientists have been reluctant to say if global warming affected particular extreme events.

Not exact matches

«Even though the power is out and the [weather stations] weren't operating in real time, many of these instruments are still recording the data, and we have to go in, retrieve the data, and play it back,» Stewart says.

There are few weather stations, most are on the edge rather than in the interior of the continent and records go back just a few decades.

When you consider we are already putting record amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere now, with extreme weather as a result, fires, floods, rising seas and all that — a 30 % INCREASE as the century goes forward must be absolutely disastrous.

And while snow total maps are de rigueur for any weather site worth its road salt, it's the coastal flood impacts that could also go down in the record books and drive major damage.

Subaru was allowed three laps to go for a record, but weather plays a big factor, with no racing when it's wet or even if the fog keeps the rescue helicopters from landing.

Your Pet Survival Kit should include: — Telephone numbers of pet - friendly hotels and motels — Your pet's vaccination records — Your vet's contact information — Photo of your pet / ID and a photo of you with your pet — Colored pictures & a good description of your pet — Two weeks worth of any medication your pet is taking — Flea preventative & heartworm treatment — Two weeks worth of pet food & water — Bowls for the food & water — Treats & toys — Extra leashes & collars — Training pads in case your dog can't go outside due to severe weather — Cat litter — Peroxide — Gauze, bandages, adhesive tape — Roll of paper towels & several hand towels — Muzzle

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.

«When the natural variability or when the weather is going in the same direction as global warming, suddenly we're breaking records, we're going outside of the bounds of previous experience, and that is when the real damage occurs,» Trenberth says.

They wanted to better understand how the climate of the Alaska Range has changed over the past several hundred years, because few weather station records of past climate in mountainous areas go back further than 1950.

Every day an extreme record is broken in many places and in part that is a consequence of the short history of weather recording and the sheer number of locations where humans are now available to observe weather events that would have gone unnoticed a few decades ago.

However, these conditions are precisely what you would expect as the Earth warms: weather patterns change, temperature records get broken, conditions go from normally wet to dry, normally dry to wet.

You seem to forget that we in the UK have written records of extreme weather events going back over 1000 years.

Or if you want to measure the ratio of local cold weather records versus local hot weather records, then the US has gone from an average 1:1 ratio in the 70's to 2.8:1 now (hot over cold).

So while we had just a few months of cold weather, there has still been unprecedented warming, and 2013 still managed to be tied as the fourth or sixth warmest year — depending on which source you go by — on record.

I then pointed out that records of extreme weather events going back many centuries cast doubt on your assertion.

«If we go back and look at those couple of 70 - degree days in Boston a couple weeks back, or this record - breaking cold snap that's destroyed a large part of the citrus fruit crop in California, that's weather,» Mann told LiveScience.

would more likely than not have gone down over this extended «blip» in Earth's history, as our planet virtually certainly recovered from a period of historically recorded colder weather called the Little Ice Age, which, it should be said in fairness, would virtually certainly not have been historically recorded without human beings on the planet.