Sentences with phrase «drier than past years»

Is it just here, or does it seem drier than past years?

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In contrast, France received less than 90 percent of its average precipitation total for 2015, making this one of the 10 driest years for the country in the past half century.

Face oils have been big in the past few years because they're packed with good - for - you antioxidants and because moisturized skin always looks cuter than dry skin.

The scientists say it'll be drier in the Western US than at any point in the past 1000 years.

In fact, calendar year 2013 now appears to be the driest on record to date — specifically, California has received less precipitation during the period January 1, 2013 — November 13, 2013 than during any other January 1 — November 13 period in at least the past 119 years.

They know it from days and nights that are hotter than in the past; from more frequent and more intense hurricanes or freak years like the last one when there were none; from long periods of dry weather followed by unseasonable heavy rainfall and flooding; and from the recognisable erosion of coastal areas and reefs.

The atlases together show persistently drier - than - average conditions across north - central Europe over the past 1,000 years, and a history of megadroughts in the Northern Hemisphere that lasted longer during the Medieval Climate Anomaly than they did during the 20th century.

The drought in the region between 1998 and 2012 is longer than usual and is 50 percent drier than the driest period in the past 500 years.

Using computer models of future climate change and analyzing tree - ring growth patterns, the study found that the latter half of this century is likely to be drier than at any time in the past 1,000 years.

The probability that a negative precipitation anomaly co-occurs with a positive temperature anomaly has increased recently, with warm — dry years occurring more than twice as often in the past two decades (91 %) as in the preceding century (42 %)(Fig. 1B).

«That country, while perhaps the most green developing and with more species biodiversity per acre than any other on earth, still had its dry tropical forests decimated by cattle pastures in America's hunger for cheap Mc - burgers over the past 70 years.

Though that sounds a bit like the simple green steps sort of thinking so prevalent in the new wave of the green movement of a few years past, the changing of the self talked about here goes deeper than that, is of a fundamentally different nature — even if some of the things in the change your lightbulbs, air dry your laundry, make sure your tires are properly inflated vein are surely useful in their own way.

If they are drier than normal, as they have been for the past four years, then drought will continue.