Sentences with phrase «week of the heatwaves»

Mr Joshi's post includes a graph showing that the average output of SE Australia's wind farms, which all feed into the same power grid, generated an average of around 800MW for the week of the heatwaves.

Not exact matches

Only a few weeks after our interview I happened to bump into her on the street where, in the middle of a heatwave, she was searching for a fan for a poorly parishioner.

Weeks of freezing temperatures, storms or heatwaves can be caused by «stuck» weather patterns.

A report from the World Bank, also published this week, paints a stark picture of a 4 °C warmer world riven by severe heatwaves, floods and droughts.

His comments came after the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change found last week that within two or three decades the world will face nearly inevitable warming of more than 2 degrees, resulting in rising sea levels, heatwaves, droughts and extreme weather.

An example is the deadly Russian heatwave of 2010, which was the result of such a «stuck» high - pressure system that kept a large mass of hot, dry air parked over the region for weeks.

During this winter in the southern hemisphere, centuries - old heatwave records have been shattered all over Australia in the past week as cities from Hobart to Sydney have been hit by prolonged stretches of temperature far above normal.

With the heatwave we had in the City last week I was essentially existing on smoothies, handfuls of anything from a nuts.com bag, and salads.

A couple of weeks ago NYC was embroiled in an epic heatwave, the kind where you instantly melt as soon as you step out of the air conditioning.

We took these photos a couple of weeks ago, before the recent heatwave.

To be frank — and after a week of driving the Veloster in Melbourne's 40 - degree heatwave — I would rather have the headroom than the sunroof.

It was a Saturday afternoon at the start of October, and London's thirteen - week heatwave was about to end with a vengeance.

Maggie O'Farrell is another literary writer with the sort of insight into family dynamics that Laurie seems to be looking for — and her latest, Instructions for a Heatwave just went on sale this week.

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WHEN electricity demand peaked at the height of this week's heatwave in southern Australia, the total power output from the fleet of wind farms across Victoria and South Australia was almost zero.

AS Australians sweltered through a record - breaking summer heatwave this week, one of the world's leading scientific bodies revised down its five - year projection for the world's average temperature.

In fact, as Mr Joshi showed, south eastern Australia's wind farms were generating about 710MW at the time of the peak electricity demand for the week of the recent January heatwave; much of this was coming from SA's wind farms.

The heatwave that engulfed southeastern Australia at the end of last week has seen heat records continue to tumble like Jenga blocks

The year got off to an exceptionally hot start with a heatwave that spanned most of the continent during the first three weeks of January.

The last week of May 2017 and first week of June brought one the most extraordinary heatwaves in world history to Asia, the Middle East and Europe.

According to research published last week by Jennifer Francis of Rutgers University (Geophysical Research Letters, vol 39, L06801), the rapid warming in the Arctic is affecting atmospheric circulation further south, making weather patterns more persistent — more blocking, in other words — which makes some kinds of extreme weather, such as heatwaves, more likely.

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) released its provisional Statement on the State of the Climate this week, estimating that 2017 is likely to be one of the warmest years for global average surface temperature, with many high - impact events including catastrophic hurricanes, floods, heatwaves and droughts.

Confusion about the BoM's representation of the January 2013 heatwave is also caused by its explanation of what's causing Australia's heatwave in which a map shows over 70 % of the continent recording temperatures in excess of 42C during the first two weeks of January 2013.

A prolonged, record - breaking, and unusually «muggy» heatwave enveloped nearly all of California for multiple weeks, and temperatures have only fallen back to average over the past few days.