temperature Archives - Teaching Kids News Readable, teachable news. Mon, 06 Mar 2017 00:56:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://teachingkidsnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-TKN_square_blk-32x32.jpg temperature Archives - Teaching Kids News 32 32 Scientists Working To Save Arctic Ice Cap https://teachingkidsnews.com/2017/03/05/scientists-working-save-arctic-ice-cap/ Mon, 06 Mar 2017 00:54:55 +0000 https://teachingkidsnews.com/?p=16028 A team of scientists has come up with a plan they say could help rebuild the Arctic ice cap. The ice cap is a huge area of sea ice that covers most of the Arctic Ocean all year round.
Usually, the sea ice gets thicker and spreads further each winter, but this hasn't happened for the past few years.
Last month, the ice cap had shrunk to its smallest size since scientists began keeping records of it 38 years ago. The weather in the Arctic has been unusually warm this winter. Some days, temperatures have been 20 degrees Celsius higher than is normal for this time of year. This month, the temperature was above 0°C at least one day.

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]]> City Services Gearing Up To Battle Climate Change https://teachingkidsnews.com/2013/02/12/5-changes-to-infrastructure-because-of-climate-change/ https://teachingkidsnews.com/2013/02/12/5-changes-to-infrastructure-because-of-climate-change/#comments Wed, 13 Feb 2013 01:42:21 +0000 https://teachingkidsnews.com/?p=8956 Cities need to watch the weather closely in the future to make sure that city services are always in good working order, according to a new report being studied by the City of Toronto.

That's because the changing climate--including severe weather and warmer temperatures--may affect cities' infrastructure. In this case, "infrastructure" refers to services that support the city, such as roads, public transit and energy plants.

The report, requested by the Toronto Environment Office, summed up the past 10 years of serious weather events in and around Toronto.

In the last decade, several records were broken due to the weather. For instance, there was one day in which there was an unusually high demand for power during a very hot summer. This kind of high demand can put a strain on the city's ability to provide power.

An all-time record 409 mm (millimetres) of rainfall was set at Trent University during this time. Four hundred and nine millimetres is equivalent to 14 billion litres of water in five hours.

Also, in the past 10 years, Toronto had its earliest ever official heat wave.

These kinds of weather events will likely continue and could affect the infrastructure of Toronto and other cities.

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