temperature
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Investigators will rely on data from the aircraft’s black boxes to account for other relevant factors, including wind speed and outside temperature.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
With the temperature around 90 degrees Fahrenheit, an NGC2 smartphone issued to a Wall Street Journal reporter who attended the drills overheated, rendering it unusable until it cooled down.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
The image contained extra "noise" because the instrument's detectors were intentionally being kept warmer than their eventual operating temperature.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
This year, temperature records have already been broken in a key region of the central-eastern Pacific, with daily sea surface temperatures now exceeding the previous record set during the very strong El Niño of 2015.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
"The temperature is still below freezing. And all the other snowmen from yesterday are still around."
From "Case of the Sneaky Snowman: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #5" by Carolyn Keene
While Kelvin waves are common -- there are five or six during every El Nino -- this one arrives at a delicate time, said Amaya, with sea temperatures already elevated.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
In laboratory experiments, the researchers found that RNA began forming droplets at temperatures about 10 degrees Celsius lower than the corresponding DNA.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
This year, temperature records have already been broken in a key region of the central-eastern Pacific, with daily sea surface temperatures now exceeding the previous record set during the very strong El Niño of 2015.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
A strong high-pressure system will set up over the eastern Pacific and West Coast starting Friday and will increase through Sunday, sending temperatures 15 to 20 degrees above normal, the weather service said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
It lacked glazes, was made by hand rather than on potters’ wheels, was baked in open fires rather than in kilns, and was fired at relatively low temperatures.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Vocabulary lists containing temperature
Physical Geography - Introductory
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Weather and Climate - Introductory
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Physical Geography - Middle School
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