Winter ocean air west of Norway is over 40 degrees warmer than average for that latitude because of this current
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Climate in Norway - met.no  Here is an overview of Norway's climate; the seasons, air temperature and precipitation. ... In some aspects this is true, because we share the same latitude as Alaska, ... ocean current near its shores, Norway has a much friendlier climate than the ... When it comes to the normal temperature distribution in winter, two main...
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Gulf Stream | ocean current | Britannica.com  In winter the air over the ocean west of Norway is more than 40 F (22 C) warmer than the average for that latitude, one of the greatest temperature anomalies in...
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Mike's Comment of the Week - PALM TREES IN SCOTLAND--A ...  Sep 15, 2016 ... The Gulf Stream is a warm ocean current in the North Atlantic Ocean, flowing ... In winter, the air over the ocean west of Norway is more than 40 F (22 C) warmer than the average for that latitude, one of the ... Iceland, 4 degrees of latitude farther north, has a 31 F (-0.6 C) average for its coldest month.
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Climate Norway: temperature (F), precipitation (in), when to go ...  Climate Norway - Temperatures, rainfall, amount of sunshine. ... Stream, so its climate is less cold than you might think, particularly along the west coast. ... The ocean (whose surface temperature reamins a few degrees above freezing .... a little colder in winter (with average temperatures just below freezing), and warmer in...
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Gulf Stream - Wikipedia  The Gulf Stream, together with its northern extension towards Europe, the North Atlantic Drift, ... The process of western intensification causes the Gulf Stream to be a ... that the climate of Western Europe and Northern Europe is warmer than it would .... The North Atlantic Current of the Gulf Stream, along with similar warm air...
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Arctic sea ice reaches new low, shattering record set just 3 weeks ...  Sep 19, 2012 ... In the 1980s, he said, summer sea ice would cover an area a bit smaller .... It is comical to think of all these harebrains that have bought into this tremble at the thought! .... Polar ice cap has been melting, the South Polar ice cap grew 17%. ... One thing is for certain, continue on this path your on and you can...
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Living Warmer: How 2 Degrees Will Change Earth - Live Science  Dec 8, 2010 ... By Wynne Parry | December 8, 2010 06:19am ET ... In other words, day-to-day weather in a warmer world may remain about the same, but ... Each one degree increase could mean up to 10 percent less rainfall during the ... The Earth's average surface temperature has risen 0.7 C (1.3 F) since humans...
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The melting of Antarctica was already really bad. It just got worse ...  Mar 16, 2015 ... The idea of warm ocean water eroding the ice in West Antarctica, what we're finding is ... In its alignment with the land and the sea, the Totten Glacier is similar to the West ... One of these canyons is three miles wide, in a region that was previously ... retreat underway in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS).
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Humboldt Current - Wikipedia  The Humboldt Current is a cold, low-salinity ocean current that flows north along the west coast of South America from the southern tip of Chile to northern Peru. Also called the Peru Current, it is an eastern boundary current flowing in the ... Upwelling occurs off Peru year-round but off Chile only during the spring and summer...
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Arctic Ocean - Wikipedia  It is connected to the Pacific Ocean by the Bering Strait and to the Atlantic Ocean through the Greenland Sea and Labrador Sea. Countries bordering the Arctic Ocean are: Russia, Norway, Iceland, Greenland, Canada and the United States.
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Climate Antarctica: temperature (F), precipitation (in), when to go ...  Antarctica is the coldest continent on Earth. ... Vostok station, 11,500 feet above sea level, which in 1983 recorded -129 F. Here the highest temperature ever recorded is -7.5 F. This station is located near the geometric center of the continent. ... Above: the annual average temperature in Antarctica (in degrees Celsius).
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Full text of "An advanced practical physical geography for public and ...  Diagram explaining the Determination of Latitude in Winter . ...... Bodies, like water, that have high specific heat, take longer to get hot, can hold more heat, ...... The Fohn wind of Switzerland is a south wind of similar origin to the Chinook, ... of snow, is called in the German Alpine Foreland the Schneefresser (snow-eater).
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Ask Me A Trivia Question -- 2 -- - Discussion on Topix  Jan 22, 2012 ... ______ WEATHER ______. A high of 120 degrees or more has been recorded on every continent but this one; it's barely broken 60. Antarctica.
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Arctic - Wikipedia  The Arctic is a polar region located at the northernmost part of Earth. The Arctic consists of the Arctic Ocean, adjacent seas, and parts of Alaska (United States), Canada, Finland, Greenland (Denmark), Iceland, Norway, Russia, and Sweden. Land within the Arctic region has seasonally varying snow and ice cover, .... The Dorset/Thule culture transition dates around the 9th10th centuries.
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Some Thoughts on the Freezing and Melting of Sea Ice and Their ...  Ocean that results from the transformation on the Barents Sea shelf of ... melt, although the actual sea ice flux is small, only about 0.005 Sv. A curious ... The annual mean initial temperature and salinity of the Atlantic water coming onto ..... As ice conditions in the Arctic Ocean and adjacent seas vary, now or in the future,.
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Weather Glossary and Terminology - Timeanddate.com  Arctic air: A mass of very cold, dry air that usually originates over the Arctic Ocean north of Canada and Alaska. ... Clear: Sky condition of less than 1/10 cloud coverage. .... In Canada, freezing rain is described to occur when the air temperature is below ... Heat wave: A period of abnormally hot weather lasting several days.
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CHAPTER 31 OCEAN CURRENTS  along shallow coastal areas to a maximum of 45 in the ... between this oceanic circulation and the general circulation ... currents, but those shown are representative. ... Currents in the Atlantic, and the Peru Current in the Pacific. ... When the warm Gulf Stream water encounters cold .... sometimes called the Japan Current.
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The Ocean and Temperature - MarineBio.org  Salinity can decrease from the melting of polar ice or increase from the freezing of polar ice. ... Warm seawater floats and cold (4C ), dense (1 g/cm3), seawater sinks, so ocean temperatures also vary across the surface and into the depths. .... melted away, leaving the sea ice cap more vulnerable to the warming ocean and...
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66th parallel north - Wikipedia  The 66th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 66 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane, about 61 km south of the Arctic Circle. It crosses the Atlantic...
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East Coast  In the winter, the westerly winds blow warm moist air onto the West Coast, which makes it rain so much. Since land cools and heats more than the ocean does, the land is much ... these westerly winds are blown over Canada and the northern United States ... In the winter, the winds come from the west, across the continent.
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Norwegian Sea | sea, North Atlantic Ocean | Britannica.com  Norwegian Sea, Norwegian Norskehavet, section of the North Atlantic Ocean ... Barents seas (northwest through northeast); Norway (east); the North Sea, ... Cut by the Arctic Circle, the sea is often associated with the Arctic Ocean to the north.