warming trend
Gradual heat increase
A warming trend is a sustained period during which temperatures gradually rise.
The term appears most often in climate and weather discussions: Scientists have documented a warming trend over the past century.
It can also describe shorter patterns: A warming trend this week will melt the remaining snow.
- climate changePlanetary atmospheric transformation
- temperature riseIncrease in heat level
- heat waveExtended extreme warmth
- thawReturn to liquid
- meltingSolid-to-liquid transition
ice caps · polar ice · glaciers · greenhouse · carbon · carbon footprint · emissions · fever · hot spell · El Niño · drought · scorching · sweltering · turning up the heat · humidity · weather patterns · rising seas · polar
- Climate Changegreenhouse gases, climate change, carbon dioxide, CO2, carbon emissions
- temperature changestemperature drop, heat waves, temperature rise, cold snaps, temperature spike
- paleoclimatepaleoclimate, ice age, ice ages, ice cores, ice core
- weatherweather, rain, sun, snow, wind
- weather termssunny, rainy, cloudy, stormy, snowy
- spring thawsnowmelt, thaw, meltwater, icicles, ice breakup
temperature direction
warming trendcooling trend
Sustained decrease in temperature
cooling period · cold spell · cold snap · temperature drop · cold wave
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