All Earth's Seasons Now Arrive Two Days Earlier, Researchers Report

Wednesday, January 21, 2009 - 17:28 in Earth & Climate

Biologists have long noticed that global warming is causing springtime flowering and ice melting to arrive earlier, but a new study shows that the seasonal cycle has also shifted, causing summer's peak temperature and winter's lowest temperature on land to arrive nearly two days earlier than was true 50 years ago. The cause is unknown, but researchers suspect it involves changing wind patterns over land and ocean, or drier soils.

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