Sentences with phrase «driest year on record»

2011 was officially the driest year on record in Texas, according to the National Weather Service.

Confirmed: 2011 Was Texas» Driest Year On Record & The Second Hottest Perhaps it doesn't need official confirming, especially for TreeHugger readers who've been following our diligent coverage of all the grim announcements about the state of Texas» drought, but the National Weather Service has officially stated that 2011 was the driest year on record for Texas.

California has been going through a drought for about 3 years now, with 2013 being the driest year on record.

Eastern Australia emerged from multi-year drought, although Southwestern Australia's ongoing drought continued with their driest year on record.

5.6 Million Urban Shade Trees Killed in Texas The effects of the driest year on record for Texas are still being tabulated, with the latest info being this figure above, representing 10 % of the state's urban forests and is in addition to the 500 million trees killed by drought as reported in December.

The second, while shorter, was often more severe, and included the driest year on record — 1403.

2012 was also the 15th driest year on record, with an average of 26.57 inches of precipitation across the country.

A dog hangs around an abandoned farmhouse in February near Bakersfield, California, during the driest year on record.

California had its driest year on record and San Francisco recorded only 86 millimetres of rain for the year, less than 20 % of average and less than half the previous record low.

A smooth 12 - month average of California precipitation shows that the current drought ecompasses the driest year on record in California.

The report also states that the continental U.S. experienced its 15th driest year on record.

In 2012, Nebraska had its driest year on record.

While this week's expected precipitation is much - needed and notable given the recent extreme dryness, we're probably still on track for the driest year on record.

The average precipitation total for the contiguous U.S. for 2012 was 26.57 inches, 2.57 inches below average, making it the 15th driest year on record for the nation.

It was also a very dry year: «The average precipitation total for the contiguous U.S. for 2012 was 26.57 inches, 2.57 inches below average, making it the 15th driest year on record for the nation.

In the eastern Caribbean, 2015 was the driest year on record and led to water restrictions on many islands, including St. Lucia, St. Kitts, Barbados and Puerto Rico.

Not exact matches

Trending Story: California releases five - year water plan As California experiences one of the driest winters on record, the California Natural Resources Agency, the California Environmental Protection Agency, and the California Department of Food and Agriculture released the final California Water Action Plan, laying out goals and vision for the next five years... Today's News -LSB-...]

California releases five - year water plan As California experiences one of the driest winters on record, the California Natural Resources Agency, the California Environmental Protection Agency, and the California Department of Food and Agriculture released the final California Water Action Plan, laying out goals and vision for the next five years...

«The snowpack we had this year was below average — around 70 percent of average towards the end of February, followed by one of the driest, warmest Marches on record,» said Tim Mathews, a fire meteorologist with the Rocky Mountain Coordination Center.

Texans sweltered through the hottest, driest spring and summer on record last year.

And when farmers set their usual fires to clear brush for planting, the dry conditions caused many to burn out of control, causing one of the biggest burn years on record and leading to a pall of smoke over the region.

December rounded out the year with a precipitation total of 1.65 inches, 1.42 inch below average, the fourth driest such month on record.

December 31, 2014 • This year was the third - driest on record for the state, but recent storms, plus new groundwater regulations, have given the hardest - hit agricultural towns a glimmer of hope.

The insurance fund tripled in size last year and has taken on more risk as private industry sources for lenders to finance and insure home loans dried up and mortgage default rates rose to record highs.

WHEREAS Statewide rainfall has been below normal in 2007 and 2008, with many Southern California communities receiving only 20 percent of normal rainfall in 2007, and Northern California this year experiencing the driest spring on record with most communities receiving less than 20 percent of normal rainfall from March through May; and

Texans sweltered through the hottest, driest spring and summer on record last year.

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 years.

They have a better record of accuracy than official long term forecasts, Consider the UKMO seasonal inaccuracies over the last many years, most recently the prediction of a dry winter in 2013 in one of the wettest on record.

Officials are expecting one of the worst wildfire seasons on record in California, with double the typical number of fires so far this year, and we're just at the beginning of the dry season.

The first kind of precipitation whiplash is from year to year, meaning that we'll see more extraordinarily dry years followed by incredibly wet years — in the way California's five - year drought ended in 2017 in one of the wettest winters on record.

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.

In 2015, California experienced its second - driest and second - warmest year on record.

The year ended as the state's driest and warmest on records dating back to 1895.

2015 was Australia's fifth warmest year on record, and saw the return of very dry conditions to parts of Australia.

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.

«We've seen the effects of record heat on snow and soil moisture this year in California, and we know from this new research that climate change is increasing the probability of those warm and dry conditions occurring together.»

Comparing this recent dry period to the historical «drought atlas» of the region (Old World Drought Atlas, OWDA), a paleoclimatic record based on tree - ring measurements, finds the recent drought was probably the strongest since the start of that record, around the year 1100 — at a calculated likelihood of 89 percent over the last 900 years, and a likelihood of 98 percent for the last 500 years.

Buddy - «another year or two of record setting melting on Greenland»... I doubt something that is happening far from home that is not felt directly will trigger a change; only an empty supermarket at home, or a major river running dry close to home or anything else that is widely felt can cause a change in behavior - and only after the fact.

Among the other rainfall records set this month: least year - to - date precipitation (6.53 inches; historical average 16.03 inches; previous record 9.36 inches in 1917); driest consecutive 8, 9 and 10 months on record (7.25 inches 8.35 inches, and 9.17 inches respectively); and driest 12 months ending in July (15.16 inches, previous record 16.46 inches in 1925).

«But it's still a very serious drought year, one of the driest on record,» he said.

Last year was Atlanta's second driest on record.