Sentences with phrase «when temperatures»

When temperatures rise above 32 degrees Celsius for several consecutive days, their appearance changes and they produce less and less fertile pollen, leading to lower agricultural yields.

When temperatures are low, the ocean dissolves an increasing amount of carbon dioxide, a potent greenhouse gas, further reducing the planet's temperature.

Instead, they will abruptly wink out of existence when temperatures reach tipping points.

They begin to grow when temperatures reach about 70 degrees in the spring, but they only set fruit after experiencing night temperatures of 35 - 50 degrees followed by less than 80 degree daytime temperatures.

We gathered our Arctic data year - round — a tall order in a place with long, dark winters when temperatures plunge to 40 degrees Fahrenheit below zero.

The maximum bulge typically occurred between 1 p.m. and 4 p.m., when temperatures were the highest for the day, and minimum bulge occurred between 7 a.m. and 9 a.m., when temperatures were generally at their lowest point of the day.

Sunny weather also increases the likelihood of finding tasty weevil larvae — which infest unripe fruit and develop faster when temperatures are higher.

Editor's Note: This article was updated on June 9, 2017, to correct a statement about rising methane production at the bottom of lakes when temperatures rise.

But when temperatures drop in the autumn, the park shuts down — and the scientists move in.

The men attempted to run prey to exhaustion only when temperatures neared 100 degrees F, says Liebenberg.

Growers typically turn on their sprinklers when temperatures reach 1.1 degrees centigrade, or around 34 degrees Fahrenheit, and keep them on until the sun melts the ice.

When temperatures exceed 32 degrees Celsius, the hydrogel begins to expel water and shrinks.

The 4D printing approach here involves printing a 3D object with a hydrogel (water - containing gel) that changes shape over time when temperatures change, said Howon Lee, senior author of a new study and assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Rutgers University - New Brunswick.

For nighttime estimates, they used midnight, when temperatures are coolest.

They restricted their daytime analysis to every day in June through August between 1 - 3 p.m., when temperatures usually peak.

The bad news: It took millennia to recover from the episode, when temperatures rose by 5 to 8 degrees Celsius (9 to 15 degrees Fahrenheit).

«In order to sleep well during the summer when temperatures are warmer than normal, we may need to adapt by using more air conditioning, added fans at night and other technologies to counteract altered future temperatures.»

«Overall, these results still reflect that higher rates of crime occur when temperatures are warmer.

A network of blood vessels along the surface of the beak helps dissipate extra heat, and the vessels constrict when temperatures drop.

The group's model suggests that this temperature hike would result in all - female hatchlings, even if the turtles nest earlier, when temperatures are cooler.

Agricultural economist Marshall Burke and his colleagues conducted a meta analysis of 60 previous studies that looked at climatic events and their link to human conflict, including the fall of the Mayan Empire, civil conflicts in Africa, ethnic clashes in India, road rage in the U.S. and even the type of pitches thrown during Major League Baseball games when temperatures rise.

«When the temperatures warm, their bodies warm, and everything goes much quicker.»

«When temperatures are extremely cold or hot, people stay indoors.

They work in the winter, when temperatures in the desert hover in the high 70s and the poisonous vipers that infest the caves are hibernating.

When temperatures pass a certain threshold, however, the beetles lose their ability to synchronize and begin emerging sporadically.

These plants flowered later in the year when temperatures are higher.

During what geoscientists called the Miocene Climate Optimum, roughly 15 million years ago when temperatures and CO2 levels were higher than today, the reefs around the Maldives atolls were flourishing.

The researchers found that in the summer, when temperatures were at their warmest, communities could fare well even if they were heated, but only if limpets were present.

The radiation measured by the mission, a joint U.S. and Italian effort called BOOMERANG, is a cosmic fossil, dating from when temperatures in the young universe were so high that light and matter seethed together in an interacting soup.

But during the Little Ice Age, a period from roughly 1400 to 1850 when temperatures in Europe were cooler and many of Earth's glaciers expanded, the biggest changes came from the Intertropical Convergence Zone shifting to the south.

But when temperatures in the Arctic are higher, the cyclones weaken, allowing masses of cold air to move south.

In comparable interglacials in the past half million years, when temperatures were less than 1 °C warmer than they are now, sea level was around 5 metres higher.

When temperatures drop, the rate at which the proteins are built slows down significantly more than the rate at which the raw materials are delivered — something that has the potential of throwing off the entire operation.

Around 3 million years ago, when temperatures were just 1 to 2 °C higher than the average of the past couple of millennia before humans began warming the climate, sea level was at least 25 metres higher than present.

In that case, normals would be up when temperatures warm and down when temperatures cool.

If they continue to die off, as they did in 1999 and 2003 when temperatures were 3 to 4 °C warmer than average and summer layers lasted longer than usual, fish and other sea life that depend on them will decline too, the team say.

The graph showed a fairly stable trend until 1900, when temperatures spiked sharply upward.

Similarly, when temperatures are colder for several years, bee populations decrease, but they increase again in hotter periods.

Cold - blooded animals are typically less active — with a corresponding decline in hunting performance — when temperatures drop.

«Scale insects were most likely to be present on specimens collected during warm historical time periods, and scales were most abundant when temperatures were similar to modern, urban Raleigh.»

The most plausible explanation is that it forms at night, when temperatures drop below zero and icy air can swirl down the steep crater and seep into the porous, rocky ground.

Every winter night when the temperatures dip, they come to the warming center located in Pomona at the Dr. Robert Yeager Health Complex.

The city of Buffalo's current Code Blue model offers shelter to anyone in need when the temperatures dip below 15 degrees, but does not force any individual to go to a shelter.

Be sure your air conditioning filters are clean, close off unused rooms in your home, operate appliances in the early morning or evening when temperatures are lower, and keep your thermostat at 78 degrees or higher.

Cuomo's executive order mandating shelters bring homeless people in from the cold when temperatures sink below freezing takes effect today.

The governor's executive order has also left Dutchess County's sole overnight emergency shelter scrambling to come up with a plan to house all the local homeless when temperatures reach freezing.

This winter, Northampton Borough Council decided not to run the severe weather provision which kicks in when temperatures drop below zero for three consecutive days.

Open on nights when temperatures drop below 32 degrees, Code Blue welcomed an average of 34 guests over 88 nights last winter.

New York state Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued an executive order on Jan. 3 mandating all local governments shelter homeless individuals when the temperatures fall below freezing.

New York state Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced an executive order requiring all local governments to provide shelter for homeless individuals when the temperatures drop below freezing.