Sentences with phrase «weather than average temperatures»

Mullin and Egan said their study could not incorporate the effect of extreme weather on people's preferences, adding that a key message is that scientists should talk more about extreme weather than average temperatures.

Not exact matches

Although considered a relatively mild winter, with late January and February temperatures above average, the devastatingly cold weather experienced from late November through to early January saw the number of deaths rise above the national average, peaking during the first week of January 2011 with almost 3500 more deaths than the five - year average for that time of year.

Because climate systems are complex, increases in global average temperatures do not mean increased temperatures everywhere on Earth, nor that temperatures in a given year will be warmer than the year before (which represents weather, not climate).

The same storm pattern that's behind the extreme weather conditions in the U.S. hit the North Pole this week and caused temperatures 50 degrees warmer than average.

The average temperature this month is 25 °C with peaks of 30 °C, slightly less than seen in recent months, matching the weather conditions last experienced in March.

Also, I'd think modeling storm size would be easier than storm intensity for the same reasons predicting average global temperature is easier to predict than next week's weather.

Future crop yields will be more strongly influenced by anomalous weather events than by changes in average temperature or annual precipitation (Ch.

People are affected far more by local weather extremes than by any change in global average temperature.

«Despite colder than average weather in any one part of the world,» said GISS Director Gavin Schmidt, «temperatures over the planet as a whole continue the rapid warming trend we have seen over the last 40 years.»

«The most active period of the witchcraft trials coincides with a period of lower than average temperature known to climatologists as the «little ice age»... In a time period when the reasons for changes in weather were largely a mystery, people would have searched for a scapegoat in the face of deadly changes in weather patterns.

Citing the work of Dr. John Christy and Richard McNider at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), which compared climate model projections with temperatures measured independently by satellites and weather balloons, he said «the average warming predicted to have occurred since 1979 (when the satellite data starts) is approximately three times larger than what is being observed.»

Climate computer models falsely assume that plant - fertilizing carbon dioxide drives climate change... and predict average global temperatures a full 1 degree F higher than have actually been observed by satellites and weather balloons, a gap that is widening every year.

Climate computer models falsely assume that plant - fertilizing carbon dioxide drives climate change... and predict average global temperatures a full 1º F higher than have actually been observed by satellites and weather balloons, a gap that is widening every year.

namely, that the average temperatures in the AWS record (post 1980) are warmer — by about 1 Deg C — than the pre-1980 manned weather station record.

The link between a regional climate variable such as mean temperature and the average behaviour of a sample of trees is one step more statistical than the link between local weather and an individual tree.

At last, a responsible government has recognised that global average sea - level change is no more relevant to coastal management than average global temperatures are to the design of residential heating and cooling systems — local weather and local sea - level change is what matters.

Because weather patterns vary, causing temperatures to be higher or lower than average from time to time due to factors like ocean processes, cloud variability, volcanic activity, and other natural cycles, scientists take a longer - term view in order to consider all of the year - to - year changes.

I believe that that average global temperature for any given month is closer to weather than it is to climate.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Thursday that the U.S. average temperature last year was half a degree warmer than normal and weather was less disastrous and drought - struck than previous years.

Some climate scientists are claiming that more extreme weather events are occurring than in the past, and that the primary reason is because the atmosphere contains more water vapor due to the increase in the average global atmospheric temperature.

As the International Energy Agency warned, â $ œno more than one - third of proven reserves of fossil fuels can be consumed prior to 2050â $ â $» unless carbon capture and storage technology is widely deployed â $» otherwise weâ $ ™ ll bust through the limit of a 2 degree Celsius rise in average temperature that climate scientists believe will unleash truly disruptive ice melt, sea level rise and weather extremes.

The «Beast from the East» was the name given by the media to an unusual weather pattern which saw warmer that average temperatures over the arctic sending colder air further south than normal, resulting in much of western Europe being hit with sustained low temperatures and heavy snow, blown in from Siberia.

When you put 2012's record high temperatures with other signs like the record amount of extreme weather and this year's record loss of Arctic sea ice, or the fact that if you're under age 27, you've never experienced a month that was colder than average, it's hard to ignore the looming threat of climate change.

When it is warmer than the climatological average (and therefore a positive temperature anomaly) in a particular location, it is generally also warmer than average over hundreds of kilometres — corresponding to the mean synoptic weather pattern — even though the actual temperature may be quite different from location to location.

While weather patterns can cause average temperatures to fluctuate from year to year, NASA expects that each decade will be warmer than the previous one, thanks to uncurbed greenhouse gas increases.

For example, during the 1920s warming in Greenland, at five coastal weather stations, the average annual temperature rose between 2 and 4 degrees Celsius [and by as much as 6 degrees Celsius in winter] in less than ten years.

Because the satellite data measure an average temperature through a depth of several kilometres in the atmosphere, they would be expected to compare better with upper - air measurements taken using weather balloons and radiosondes than they would with measurements at the surface.

During hot, humid summer weather, many urban areas experience heat inversions — cold air in the upper atmosphere holds much warmer air close to the ground, sustaining higher - than - average temperatures and trapping smog.

The IPCC has already concluded that it is «virtually certain that human influence has warmed the global climate system» and that it is «extremely likely that more than half of the observed increase in global average surface temperature from 1951 to 2010» is anthropogenic.1 Its new report outlines the future threats of further global warming: increased scarcity of food and fresh water; extreme weather events; rise in sea level; loss of biodiversity; areas becoming uninhabitable; and mass human migration, conflict and violence.

because we can not predict the specific weather patterns for any particular global average temperature, there is no reason to believe that a higher global average temperature will have a more damaging distribution than a lower global average temperature.

Further, with mean temperatures across Australia generally well above average since September 2012, long periods of warmer - than - average days have been common, with a distinct lack of cold weather, the statement says.