The mild Atlantic ocean breeze was caressing us in our borrowed pashminas as we enjoyed our sundowners, listening to the breaking waves as our soundtrack.
If the planets are there, one of them is about the right distance from the star to sport mild temperatures, oceans of liquid water, and even life.
Another possible cause, Pershing said, is that shifts in the gulf stream, the Atlantic current that originates in the Gulf of Mexico and keeps Europe mild, warmed the ocean off the Northeast.
But even on a comparatively mild December day, the ocean was cold enough to take the breath away.
Southern cuisine, due to the area's proximity to the ocean and milder climate, has a wide variety of fish and vegetables; it differs in many respects from the wheat-based diets across dry northern China.
The rugged islands have mild winters because of warm ocean currents.
Because much of the extra carbon dioxide released into the air gets deposited in the ocean as a mild acid, past events also caused the ocean to turn more acidic.
Póvoa's climate is classified as Mediterranean climate (Csb in the Köppen climate classification system), with gentle summers and mild winters, influenced by the Atlantic ocean.
The biome's mild climate and proximity to the ocean also makes it attractive to humans, resulting in disproportionately high conversion for agriculture, development, and other human uses [5], [6].
However, archaea include mesophiles that grow in mild conditions, in marshland, sewage, the oceans, the intestinal tract of animals, and soils.
