Sentences with phrase «deep drought»

Scientists also are studying whether climate change could mean more such deep droughts in the future and whether it made the current one worse.

By Peter Gleick, President December 8, 2014 Over the past three years (and indeed, for 10 of the past 14 years) California has experienced a particularly deep drought.

While the event has begun its slow decline, those wide - ranging impacts will continue to be felt for weeks and months to come — good news for those in California, who need El Niño - fueled rains, but bad news for the many areas, like Indonesia, which is suffering from deep drought, food and water shortages, and wildfires.

The tweak to the jet stream also tends to favor wetter weather over Southern California — much needed this year after four years of deep drought.

Over the past three years (and indeed, for 10 of the past 14 years) California has experienced a particularly deep drought.

It's a highway to hell — a road to deeper droughts, fiercer fires and storms, messier spills and dirtier air.»

In the past, they didn't have to design for the possibility of stronger floods, deeper droughts and more frequent storms.

The most obvious difference between this year and that event, clearly visible in the animation, is the «blob» of warm water off the west coast of North America, a symptom of the relentless high pressure pattern that has kept the West hot and dry over much of the last few years and led to the deep drought in California.

But over the last few years, winter precipitation has been far below normal, sending the state into a deep drought.

On the contrary, roughly 80 percent of HOT is devoted to on - the - ground reporting that focuses on solutions — not just the relatively well known options for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and otherwise limiting global warming, but especially the related but much less recognized imperative of preparing our societies for the many significant climate impacts (e.g., stronger storms, deeper droughts, harsher heat waves, etc.,) that, alas, are now unavoidable over the years ahead.

In coming years there will be plenty of big storms and deep droughts.

There's also historic warm temperatures in Alaska, and the deepest drought in decades across the west...

«Rising sea levels, sweltering temperatures, deeper droughts, and heavier downpours — global warming's serious effects are already here and getting worse,» wrote Borenstein.