Sentences with phrase «drought years of»

The drought years of the 1930s had the most heat waves, while the 1980s had the highest number of cold waves.»

During the drought years of 2012 — 2015, mean monthly water temperatures in the freshwater regions of the Delta from April to July were on average higher than between 1995 and 2011 (two - factor ANOVA, Bonferroni corrected P < 0.01), demonstrating the effects of drought on surface water temperatures (Fig. 1B).

Mr. deBuys compares the landscape today with the conditions of 1903, when a government naturalist named Vernon O. Bailey surveyed the area and its high - altitude forests, or the drought years of the 1950s, when Tony Hillerman, the writer whose novels brought the arid landscape to life, recorded the effects of what was regarded then as a pretty severe dry spell.

Obvious periods of lower - than - average streamflow in most of the focal rivers in Montana include the drought years of the Dust Bowl (late 1920s to early 1940s), the 1950s, the late 1980s to early 1990s, and the early 2000s (Figure 3 - 13).

A study published this year by Bradley Udall, senior water and climate research scientist with the Colorado Water Institute at Colorado State University, and Jonathan Overpeck, professor of hydrology and atmospheric sciences at the University of Arizona, found that during the drought years of 2000 - 2014, the river surrendered a third of its flow because of higher temperatures in the upper basin.

Udall and Overpeck began by looking at the drought years of 2000 - 2014.

Not exact matches

A summer drought stunted the growth of their soybeans and corn, so their yield will probably be half of last year's harvest.

FORT WORTH, Texas — Some of the largest brewers in the U.S. are trying to reduce their water - to - beer ratio as drought and wildfire threaten the watersheds where they draw billions of gallons every year.

Two years of extreme drought, during which farmers relied almost completely on groundwater, have brought the seriousness of the problem home.

According to the most recent federal forecast, about 48 % of the contiguous U.S. is now experiencing moderate to exceptional drought, down from a high of 60 % at the beginning of the year.

Here's what Lake Oroville, the body of water contained by the tallest dam in the US, looked like in August 2015, during the height of California's raging five - year drought:

After all the frenetic deal - making of the past few years, Canada's oilpatch is now finding itself in the grip of an unaccustomed drought of mergers and acquisitions.

The Weather Channel's Carl Parker reports on the worst drought in years, and the state of agriculture in the Midwest.

California's historic drought is in the middle of its fifth year.

That's not a pretty sight in California, which is currently in its fifth year of a historic drought and also happens to be home to lots of meat and dairy farms.

The company stopped watering its lush lawns last year, and though the type of grass it planted is supposed to be drought - tolerant, the grass has browned in some areas.

If the spring and summer don't bring some wet relief, the U.S. might well face another year of very low yields after last year's summer drought — with the difference that global wheat, corn and soybean stocks this time around would already be depleted.

The two IPOs are part of a recent trend of enterprise software companies going public after drought of several years.

«Malawi has shown progress in achieving macroeconomic stabilization following two years of drought, with a rebound in growth and inflation reduced to single...

El Nino - fueled storms have brought some relief to drought - parched California this year, but the central and southern portions of the state, as well as the Sierra Nevada foothills in the north remain at high risk, according to experts.

But they also attribute the price fall to a seasonal rise in stock, after a drought of low listings earlier in the year.

Although cocoa prices scored the most impressive quarterly gain, with futures up 35 % on production issues in West Africa, soybeans were a standout as well, with futures up 9.8 % as a drought harmed crops in Argentina while years of bumper harvests in the United States were set to recede in 2018.

Reporter Kristen van Schie tells Sean Rameswaram how the three - year drought is drastically changing life for millions of Capetonians.

Investors said they wanted to avoid the essential problem of seasonal conditions such as drought wiping out an entire year's agricultural earnings.

This could result in higher rates for crop insurance, which could be detrimental to Oklahoma farmers as this farming season has already seen high levels of precipitation following a five - year drought.

Scattered thunderstorms in the Rockies and parts of the Southwest are doing little to ease the hardships caused by the severe drought, now going on almost three years in some states.

According to ABARE's current forecasts, farm production is not expected to reach the high levels prevailing in the years immediately preceding the onset of the drought.

The fall in rural exports has been especially sharp, with the value of exports in the June quarter down by over 27 per cent on the level of a year ago, largely reflecting the effect of the drought.

The effect of the drought can also be seen in farm output, which fell by around one - third over the year to the March quarter, subtracting 1.1 percentage points from aggregate GDP growth.

Over the year, food prices rose by 4 1/2 per cent, with above - average price rises being recorded for a number of commodities affected by the drought.

These contrasts, however, are likely to diminish over the year ahead as the world economy recovers and the effects of the drought dissipate.

The impact of the weak world economy and the drought over the first half of 2003 are evident in the latest national accounts, which show that real GDP rose by 0.1 per cent in the June quarter and 2.0 per cent over the year (Table 10).

Weak growth in the world economy and the drought in Australia have seen export earnings decline over the past couple of years (Graph 44).

In drought years, farmers generally increase slaughter rates rather than incur the high costs of retaining stock.

Some experts argue that four years of drought in Syria helped contribute to its civil war.

In Kenya, for example, there's drought coupled with the after - effects of the post-election violence a year ago.

Food shortages and droughts result in millions of deaths each year.

It will not worry in a year of drought or cease producing fruit.

Environmental water policies that show greater concern for bait fish than for food production, combined with years of drought, have strangled area farmers to the point that much of the arable land is returning to its natural semi-arid state.

It has no worries in a year of drought, and never fails to bear fruit.»

In the days of T'ang, there were seven years out of eight of drought, but this did not narrow its span.

Two years of drought seem broken by a deluge that would be the wrath of God were it not mercy.

The downside of the current climatic conditions of California is yet another year of severe drought.

Even though there's been a drought in Indiana this year, there were still plenty of berries.

Organic systems perform especially well during years of drought.

I think it was for a couple of reasons — partly when my dad was super sick and in the hospital for months, and at the same time we were having this years - long drought... and I just kept thinking «I just want a rainy day to sit inside and rest and recharge.»

Although Kaplan says the recent stretch of drought and bad weather will have a noticeable impact on the produce industry as a whole over the next year, Professional Produce stands prepared to increase its presence in the marketplace.

In December of that year, Hull native Adrie Groeneweg, then 19, ended the town's hometown pizza drought when he opened the first Pizza Ranch location.

It is important to capitalise on good storage volumes and environmental water availability in wetter years in order to build ecological resilience — the ability of river, wetland and floodplain ecosystems to withstand and recover from the impact of future droughts.

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