Sentences with phrase «breaking drought years»

After several record - breaking drought years, the Amazon is approaching a tipping point when its «rain machine» may malfunction, putting South American agriculture in peril.

Not exact matches

Two years of drought seem broken by a deluge that would be the wrath of God were it not mercy.

Ohio State followed in 2014, Alabama won another in 2015, and Clemson broke a 35 - year drought by winning in 2016.

Arsenal rallied towards the end of the season and did end up breaking the trophy drought by winning the FA cup but I fully believe that injuries cost us the title that year, just as they did last year.

If Arsenal had not managed to break our scoring drought and bag all three points away to Bournemouth today, it could well have been seen as the end of our own challenge, but as it happens the pressure and expectation that the Gunners have been feeling since going two points clear at the start of the year could now be switched to the shoulders of the Leicester players and manager.

Despite breaking their 17 - year playoff drought, the Bills still have too many flaws to think they can contend with the current roster.

To be fair to the Arsenal and France international centre forward Olivier Giroud, his goal scoring form for club and country since breaking the long drought in front of goal that was plaguing him earlier this year has been very good.

Despite not starting a Grand Slam event since he missed the cut at the 2015 PGA Championship (with MCs at that year's British and U.S. Opens after a T17 at the Masters), one bookmaker has Woods at 5 - 1 to break his majors drought on the 10th anniversary (if not before) of his last major victory: the 2008 U.S. Open.

And at that point, Ruff was already a year in and had broken the team's playoff drought, so nothing you could do there.

His first playoff series he put the world on notice that he was going to be a big time player and the Shot broke the 14 year drought of the 2nd round.

The 2016 World Series was already going to be a series for the ages, because Cleveland and Chicago had been waiting YEARS to break their championship droughts.

Since 1990, nine teams have broken playoff droughts of 10 - plus years: Two are the Rams and Bills this season, and the seven other teams were all eliminated in either the wild card or divisional round of the playoffs.

Knowing that fans have been waiting over five decades to see a trophy back in Cleveland, Nike filmed a video expressing the sheer anxiety as the Cavaliers finally broke that 52 - year drought.

However, should Arsenal lose a player of Sánchez's quality to a rival club, breaking the 12 - year drought of not winning the Premier League will not get any easier, as highlighted by the departures of stars such as Robin van Persie, Cesc Fabregas and Samir Nasri, who all of course went onto win the title with other clubs.

Curt Schilling famously pitched through an ankle injury (that turned into a bloody sock) during Game 6 of the ALCS to beat the New York Yankees and eventually break the Red Sox 86 - year Championship drought.

Kikkan Randall and Jessie Diggins broke a 42 - year Olympic drought for the USA in cross country skiing with the pair winning gold in the women's team sprint freestyle in Pyeongchang.

How many times in recent years have terrible teams broken goal droughts or losing streaks against us?

Just a few months ago, the Cleveland Cavaliers broke their city's 52 - year championship drought by overcoming a 3 - 1 series deficit against the Golden State Warriors in the NBA Finals.

He has done as he promised and delivered silverware and success, breaking the Club's 35 - year trophy drought and securing the title in 2012.

The Emirates Stadium outfit broke their trophy drought in the FA Cup last season, winning thrilling contests over Wigan (semi-finals) and Hull City (final) to end a barren nine - year period.

Whether that means breaking a seven - year playoff drought remains to be seen.

His greatest gift to the Gunners is that, since he joined the club, they have broken their nine year trophy drought.

Arsenal broke their title drought this year and fans thought that they will build from that success.

Virginia (D): Republicans have to be feeling good about their chances of breaking an eight - year drought in the Commonwealth.

While her colleagues are modelling when the next ice shelf will break off or forecasting next year's drought, Gillian is making this information relevant to non-scientists.

Global warming's fingerprints can be clearly seen on this year's fire season in California, where the state's extreme drought is entering its fifth year and record - breaking heat has baked the region.

The Horn of Africa is in the midst of its worst drought in 60 years: Crop failures have left up to 10 million at risk of famine; social order has broken down in Somalia, with thousands of refugees streaming into Kenya; British Aid alone is feeding 2.4 million people across the region.

A five - year drought in parts of Texas and Oklahoma has dramatically broken — with floods that have burst dams, washed away houses and taken at least five lives.

Devastating floods occurred with the Mississippi River in 2011, and this marked the start of a record - breaking year of droughts and heat waves in the United States that stretched into the fall of 2012, as well as the lowest level of ice extent in the Arctic.

And nobody knows whether the drought will break this winter, or continue for another agonizing year.

California is in a record breaking four - year drought, so using water to generate fuel seems counter intuitive; however, a little water splitting goes a long way in terms of energy production, said Chengxiang Xiang, co-leader of JCAP's prototyping and scale - up project.

Heavy, but intermittent, rains in the last two months have broken the back of two years of drought.

I think with the Vita, I had Gravity Rush (daze) and Uncharted, then there was nothing, for probably 5 months lol and the pattern just seemed to go on like that, took about a year before 2 games came out that I could say I really wanted like Uncharted and Gravity Rush again, that was Persona 4 and Soul Sacrifice, then literally, another years wait for Ys Celceta to come out, I just think the Wii U has managed better since that first year drought they had, plus I've had Wii mode to ponder which helps, I bought a ps3 on it's release and mostly played ps2 games on it, unfortunately it broke down a lot and I got fed up always sending it back, not really had many problems with my slim though, just don't love the system like I loved my ps2.

Not only did the long - suffering team break two longstanding championship droughts — the Cubbies had gone 71 years without winning their league, and a whopping 108 years without winning a World Series — they did it with the sort of panache that definitively puts to rest all talk of goats and curses.

In the process he fended off Fernando Alonso, took his only F1 race win, and broke an eight - year Williams drought since Juan - Pablo Montoya's victory at the Brazilian Grand Prix in 2004.

In a year that brought the United States record - breaking wildfire activity, an ongoing drought, and Hurricane Sandy, perhaps these announcements aren't surprising.

Intense heat has continued to break records across the country as Texas suffers its most severe one - year drought on record.

Soon, he'll have MMH to break his 5 year drought.

«Even though California historically has periods of dry and wet years, there isn't an analog for climate extremes like the ones we've observed in recent years, such as those record - breaking prolonged periods of drought following by periods of intense precipitation pulses that cause flooding,» Woodburn said.

Records have been broken monthly in the continental United States, with the warmest spring and 12 - month period experienced this year and severe fires and drought affecting large swaths of the country.; xNLx;; xNLx; The World Resources Institute put together a timeline of extreme climate and weather events in 2012.

The analysis was written before the current drought and record - breaking temperatures that have seared much of the United States this year.

Earlier Wednesday (Dec. 7) the agency announced that this year, so far, had broken the record for costly, weather - related disasters, including drought, wildfire, tornados, flooding, a blizzard and a hurricane.

After a record - breaking rainless January in San Francisco and much of the Bay Area, an «atmospheric river» will bring a rainstorm to the region this weekend — and one team of scientists will ride into the storm to study the phenomenon and its potential impact on California's devastating three - year drought.

But this year's record - breaking U.S. drought, which has blanketed 63 percent of the lower 48, is sparking a food fight over corn.

The drought did break, and the aggregated average annual rainfall for the Murray Darling Basin as calculated by the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) shows 2010 was the wettest year -LSB-...]

This year's corn crop has soared to a new national record, breaking expectations in many states that received too much rain early on and a summer dry spell that brought back drought concerns.

For instance, the summer of 2002 in Europe brought widespread floods but was followed a year later in 2003 by record - breaking heat waves and drought.

Because droughts progress over years, it takes a prolonged period of rainfall or a massive rainfall event to break them.