Sentences with phrase «while heatwaves»

Different parts of the country suffer floods at different times, and most serious incidents get news coverage — while heatwaves tend to hit the country in one go, so coverage is more concentrated.
While heatwaves are an annual occurrence in India, global warming has meant recent heat waves are hotter and as a result more deadly.
One of the curious features of Green journalism is that if it gets unusually cold, this will be dismissed as mere «weather» of no significance, while a heatwave or violent storm will be seized on as a warning that catastrophic climate change is already here.
While the heatwave was significant, the veracity of extreme temperatures recorded at Bourke can be assessed through a standard statistical test that compares temperatures at Bourke with those recorded at nearby locations (see Methods).

Not exact matches

Heatwaves and drought mean that California's avocado production is expected to fall by 44 %, while disastrous flooding in Peru's avocado - growing south has also led to a downgrade in this year's crop forecast, according to the BBC.
While it may not feel like fall with this heatwave sweeping across the country, at least the fall produce is arriving in full force.
It took a while and a massive heatwave to get her going with water, and she now drinks from a Tommee Tippee cup while we're out and a shot glass in the house.
It uses Bissell Heatwave Technology to get to dirt that's deep down in the carpet fibers, and it maintains the water temperature while you do it.
While combing through my photo database during this unusually - hot - even - for - July heatwave that's been baking southern California, I was drawn to this winter photo taken in January in Palm Springs.
In the coming decades Russia will experience worse heatwaves than the 2010 event, which killed 55,000 people, while the US will bake in the West and Great Lakes regions
By 2100, arid cities like Phoenix will become hotbeds for heatwaves compared to their rural surroundings, while cities on the eastern seaboard will be less severely affected by heatwaves compared to theirs.
Arid cities like Phoenix will become hotbeds for heatwaves compared to their rural surroundings, while cities on the eastern seaboard will be less severely affected by heatwaves compared to theirs.
The changing climate could increase insect - borne disease and push up deaths related to heatwaves and pollution, while more floods could lead to depression
While marine heatwaves have only started to draw attention in recent years, the increasing intensity, frequency and duration of atmospheric heatwaves have been extensively documented30.
While Heartland continues politicizing science, demonizing credible scientists and using tobacco industry tactics to forge doubt over global warming, Americans are feeling the real toll climate change is already taking on society, by increasing the severity of storms like hurricane Sandy or pushing droughts, wildfires and heatwaves to new extremes.
While my real life outfit today differs from this post because of a heatwave, there's nothing better I can think to wear for our #LiveFromThe80s movie tonight which is Desperately Seeking Susan.
While March is normally bitterly cold and layering is still very much the name of the sartorial game, the UK bizarrely experienced a minor heatwave at the weekend, urging both males and females to reach into their wardrobe for fair weather attire.
While 28 C is a substantial heatwave for Moscow (Average July high: 23.2 C), it is hardly comparable to the 38.2 C July maximum recorded in the most recent heatwave.
Heatwaves in January 2014 shut down play at the Australian Open, while literally thousands of fires were reported in a 24 - hour period.
Many people around the world are already paying the ultimate price of heatwaves, and while models suggest that this is likely to continue, it could be much worse if emissions are not considerably reduced.
In 2016 unusually dry and hot conditions triggered massive fires in Tasmania's World Heritage forests, while ocean circulation patterns have moved unprecedented underwater heatwaves around the world, driving the tragic coral bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef.»
While this doesn't necessarily portend more extreme heatwaves than usual, the multi-model mean also suggest that anomalous warmth will persist over California during the late summer and early autumn — a time when coastal heatwaves are far more likely.
Stockholm and Rome could expect the greatest increase in numbers of heatwave days, while Prague and Vienna could see the greatest increases in maximum temperatures.
> Heatwaves have become more frequent in summer, while there are now fewer frosts and winter cold spells.
NOAA have been saying for a while that AMO warm phase leads to droughts / heatwaves in the Mid West and South West.
While Heartland continues politicizing science, demonizing credible scientists and using tobacco industry tactics to forge doubt over global warming, Americans are feeling the real toll climate change is already taking on society, by increasing the severity of storms like hurricane Sandy or pushing droughts, wildfires and heatwaves to new extremes.
And while neither Russian heatwave nor Australian flood can be conclusively attributed to AGW, these sorts of events are exactly what we will see more of as warming (and precipitation change) continue.
On Saturday February 11, as New South Wales suffered through the heatwave's peak, temperatures soared to 47 ℃ in Richmond, 50 km northwest of Sydney, while 87 fires raged across the state amid catastrophic fire conditions... Read More
Other parts of the world suffered severe flooding, extreme heatwaves and droughts in 2008, while Arctic sea ice was once more observed to decline markedly, reaching during September its second - lowest historic extent.
While our local unusual heatwaves might be totally irrelevant, in a way, they are not so, in another, I think it's important to note, in a way that Stu Ostro did more thoroughly than anyone else, that the evidence is pouring in.
While climate change can be cited for making events like recent US heatwaves and the ongoing extreme drought more likely, what's the science behind the current drought conditions?
While the Polar Vortex was hitting America, a record heatwave was making bats fall from trees in Australia
PRUDENCE RCM outputs showed non-linear relationships between mean maximum temperature and indices of drought and heatwave (Good et al., 2006), while changes in maximum 1 - day and 5 - day precipitation amounts were systematically enhanced relative to changes in seasonal mean precipitation across many regions of Europe (Beniston et al., 2007).
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