Sentences with phrase «driest year in the past»

«And 1580 was the single driest year in the past 500 years.

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Knowing I was injecting enough surprise in the schedule itself, I stuck to the CBC's dry - as - toast format of years past in presenting it (on Mondays at eight, we'll have this... at eight - thirty, we'll have that...).

Private equity reported a 9 % increase in dry powder in the past year, reaching $ 755 billion as of June 2015.

I'm so - so as a writer, and am currently finishing up my second book (just write as a hobby), and in the past made about 30 - 50 dollars an hour as a free lance writer but that was a couple of years back, it was only for about 10 - 20 hours a month, and the gig just dried up.

In line with the pick - up in commodity demand, the Baltic Dry Index, which tracks freight prices for dry bulk goods, has soared to unprecedented levels over the past two years (Graph A2In line with the pick - up in commodity demand, the Baltic Dry Index, which tracks freight prices for dry bulk goods, has soared to unprecedented levels over the past two years (Graph A2in commodity demand, the Baltic Dry Index, which tracks freight prices for dry bulk goods, has soared to unprecedented levels over the past two years (Graph ADry Index, which tracks freight prices for dry bulk goods, has soared to unprecedented levels over the past two years (Graph Adry bulk goods, has soared to unprecedented levels over the past two years (Graph A2).

In April, Mariani added its last piece to the puzzle when it acquired Urban, a Wisconsin - based family company that's been in the dried cranberry business for 10 years and a supplier to Mariani for the past five years prior to its acquisitioIn April, Mariani added its last piece to the puzzle when it acquired Urban, a Wisconsin - based family company that's been in the dried cranberry business for 10 years and a supplier to Mariani for the past five years prior to its acquisitioin the dried cranberry business for 10 years and a supplier to Mariani for the past five years prior to its acquisition.

For the past few years I was a fan of Dandy Blend, which is a coffee substitute made with dandelion root, chicory, and a few other ingredients that are processed, freeze dried and turned into a powder that makes a pretty decent instant latte, without any actual coffee in it.

Dehydrator: This guy has been kind of neglected in my kitchen the past few years (I mainly use it to make sprouted buckwheat crisps and to dry grapes into plump raisins in the fall), but since this blog has such a big archive of delicious raw dishes that call for time in the dehydrator, I'm including it in this list.

My daughter is long past the bottle stage, yet we still have our First Years Spinning Drying Rack for bottles prominently placed in our kitchen next to the sink.

But just because one 2.5 year old can stay dry at night doesn't mean all of them can, and in fact reinforces the idea that kids who wet the bed past toddlerhood have something «wrong» with them, when many of them simply aren't there developmentally.

Also of major interest, the team notes, is that the sudden collapse of the nearby Guge kingdom of western Tibet (ruins shown) around 1620 C.E. — which had previously been ascribed to military conflicts — occurred near the end of the region's driest 3 decades in the past 5700 years.

The cycle of dry spells that Pakistan has suffered for the past few years, terminated by a massive torrent, aligns almost precisely with trends predicted in the assessment reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Local lore says the plants are a remnant of the continent's rainier past, the only palm species to survive in the interior when Australia began drying out 15 million years ago.

The results showed no significant change in the quantity of black carbon deposited for the past 60 years or the quantity and mineralogical makeup of dust compared to the last 12,000 years, meaning that deposition of these light absorbing impurities is not a primary cause of reflectivity reduction or surface melting in the dry snow zone.

But I have had the best grain harvests in the past two years that I have ever had despite the dry weather.»

The research from Berke, assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences at the University of Notre Dame and Environmental Change Initiative affiliate, suggests that Africa has gradually become wetter over the past 1.3 million years — instead of drier as was thought previously.

Goordial, a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Natural Resource Sciences at McGill University has spent the past four years looking for signs of active microbial life in permafrost soil taken from one of the coldest, oldest and driest places on Earth: in University Valley, located in the high elevation McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica, where extremely cold and dry conditions have persisted for over 150,000 yeaDry Valleys of Antarctica, where extremely cold and dry conditions have persisted for over 150,000 yeadry conditions have persisted for over 150,000 years.

«Forests of the Congo basin are known to be resilient to moderate climate change because they have been exposed to dry conditions in the past few hundred years,» Saatchi said.

Mission team members hope that observations the spacecraft makes during its one - year prime mission will yield insights about Mars» shift from a relatively warm, wet world in the ancient past to the cold, dry planet it is today.

More extreme and persistent swings in the jet stream may also be shaping a North American winter weather pattern that's been common the past few years — a warm and dry West, especially California, and cold waves in the Eastern U.S.

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 centurIn 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 centurin the past half century.

It really has lessened the dryness and lines I've gotten from living in the dry and windy desert for the past 13 years.

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.

I think that, as a result of the 3 perms I did in the past, the bottom half of my hair got really weak and brittle; I've been consistently getting a ton of breakage, and the hair felt super dry still (even though it hasn't been processed in over a year, and I use very little heat on it).

Whitlock's kidnapping is abetted by both by a spiked drink and a dry cleaning truck, so they are clearly nodding to both, while demonstrating there are so many orthogonal directions to take neo-noir that the surface has only been scratched in the past 75 years.

The only real disappointment in the past year's been on the exploration front, with their Romanian & Black Sea wells coming up dry.

In the past, the federal government offered cash infusions of about $ 65 million per year to ensure the program's solvency, but that funding dried up after the 2008 fiscal year.

According to GfK data, he said, in just the past year, pet specialty retail sales of freeze - dried pet foods and treats have jumped 44 percent to $ 74 million.

We have seen an increase in the past year in our raw - frozen, freeze - dried and dehydrated foods.

Grain - free dry dog food has become wildly popular in the past few years.

They have made it possible for the thousands of Americans, interested in the art movements of the old world, but who have not had the opportunity of late years to visit Europe, to see, study and compare the work of the founders, leaders and the followers of the various cults and movements which have so stirred France, England, Germany, Italy, and even Spain and Russia and the Scandinavian countries, during the past decade, and which have brought about, if not an art Renaissance in Europe — a stirring of the dry bones of conservatism and conventionalism in art abroad, and have had their direct influence here.

Ganga Wouldn't Be The First Of India's Sacred Rivers To Dry Up Also, India may not be India today or in the history of the past couple thousand years without Ganga, but go back further and Indian civilization was very much without Ganga.

Lead author Dr Debbie Polson, of the University of Edinburgh's School of GeoSciences, said: «This study shows for the first time that the drying of the monsoon over the past 50 years can not be explained by natural climate variability and that human activity has played a significant role in altering the seasonal monsoon rainfall on which billions of people depend.»

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

Observational records show that anthropogenic - influenced climate change has already had a profound impact on global and U.S. warm season climate over the past 30 years, and there is increasing contrast between geographic regions that are climatologically wet and dry - the hypothesis that the «wet gets wetter, dry gets drier» is seen in a new paper by Chang et al..

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 yearIn 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 yearin at least the past 119 years.

We all know that it has been extremely dry for the past year in nearly every corner of the state.

Reconstructions of California climate suggest that meteorological droughts lasting multiple decades are not uncommon over the past 1000 years, while there is evidence that dry periods of even longer duration occurred in California's deeper geological past.

DES MOINES (AP)-- Warmer and wetter weather in large swaths of the country have helped farmers grow corn, soybeans and other crops in some regions that only a few decades ago were too dry or cold, experts who are studying the change said... The change is due in part to a 7 % increase in average U.S. rainfall in the past 50 years, said Jay Lawrimore, chief of climatic analysis for the Asheville, N.C. - based National Climactic Data Center... Brad Rippey, a U.S. Department of Agriculture meteorologist, said warming temperatures have made a big difference for crops such as corn and soybeans... For example, data from the National Agricultural Statistics Service show that in 1980, about 210,000 soybean acres were planted in North Dakota.

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.

Over the past five years several unvented roof insulation systems have been developed by the Building Science Consortium for use primarily in hot - dry and hot - humid climate zones.

In other words, the scientists said, moderate California weather may be a thing of the past, with weather trending toward extremely warm and dry years, with intermittent extremes of warm and wet weather.

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.

It shows 2 dry periods in Australia — the past 150 years and around the medieval optimum separated by a long period of La Nina dominance.

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.

Knowing how giant sequoia trees responded to a 500 - year warm spell in the past is important because scientists predict that climate change will probably subject the trees to such a warm, dry environment again, said Swetnam, a UA professor of dendrochronology and director of UA's Laboratory of Tree - Ring Research.

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).

Figure 3: The past three water years (2012 to 2014) are the driest in the entire instrumental record for California.

«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.