Sentences with phrase «continuous years of drought»
However, primitive Mayans were unfortunately believed to have slowly perished due to 200 continuous years of drought.
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Complete sedimentary samples now show a continuous record of the last 3000 years, showing how droughts and wet seasons may have influenced the island's population.
the current event is the most severe drought in the last 1200 years, with single year (2014) and accumulated moisture deficits worse than any previous continuous span of dry years... In terms of cumulative severity, it is the worst drought on record -LRB--14.55 cumulative PDSI), more extreme than longer (4 - to 9 - year) droughts.