Sentences with phrase «droughts of several years»

If you live in places where droughts of several years occur repeatedly, it's a good idea to have good water management strategies, rather than letting all the excess water when it DOES rain flow back into the sea.

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

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If soils remain wet through cluster elongation periods we could see generally large, tight clusters and the possibility of higher summer rot incidence than the past several years of drought have presented.

Several of the Huskers» contemporary powerhouses have gone through similar droughts: Tennessee hasn't finished the year in the AP top 10 in the last 16 seasons; Miami has gone 14 years without a top 10; Texas is now up to eight.

Yes, there were challenges associated with that move — debts to pay, players sold without proper replacements and the whole nine yards, but we still tried to compete, even though we fell short on several occasions and none hurts more than the 2006 Champions League final but nine years of a trophy drought changed to sheer elation when the Gunners won the FA Cup in 2014.

In Spain, there have been several years with less rain than normal, and according to a recent report by Unión de Pequeños Agricultores y Ganaderos (union of small farmers and ranchers, UPA), in 2017, droughts caused losses of more than 3,600 million euros in the agricultural sector in Spain, mostly due a big loss of productivity in crops.

Acuña - Soto saw that each of the cocolitzli epidemics appeared to be preceded by several years of drought.

NCAR, which is financed in part by the National Science Foundation, has spent several years searching for ways to extend the predicability of floods, droughts, heat waves and other extreme weather events from weeks to months as a way to give weather - sensitive sectors such as agriculture more time to protect themselves against costly losses.

The catastrophic wildfires burning in California, which killed at least one person over the weekend and injured several others, are being fueled by high temperatures, strong winds and years of withering drought influenced by climate change.

Even with several heavy rainfall events from El Niño conditions toward the end of the year, nearly 88 percent of the state continued to experience the ongoing drought at year's end.

Van Rooyen et al. [2] found several marked fairy circles 20 years later, and contested the suggestion of Moll [4] and Becker and Getzin [8] that fairy circles disappear after long droughts.

The 2002 drought came after several years of good rainfall (averaged across the country), rather than during an extended period of low rainfall such as occurred in the 1940s.

«Several years ago, in the midst of our California drought, I started hunting around for a grain that took much less water to grow than rice.

A cluster of Cedar Elm trees in a draw here in Central Texas have died of the the intermittent exceptional droughts of the last several years.

No local weather data have been collected for several years, and without a long - term record it is difficult to spot trends that might indicate a return of drought conditions, said Dr. Barlow at Columbia.

The last several years of heat waves and drought have given the US power sector an eye - opening glimpse into a potentially grim future:

Their work encompasses a range of problems and time scales: from five - day model predictions of hurricane track and intensity, to understanding the causes of changes in extremes over the past century, to building new climate prediction models for seamless predictions out to the next several years, to earth system model projections of human - caused changes in various extremes (heat waves, hurricanes, droughts, etc.) over the coming century.

Over the last several years, the recurring drought situation in California has been getting all kinds of media attention — and for good reason.

What the researchers found quite definitively was that warm and dry patterns, like those that have characterized the past several years of California's drought, are actually happening more often.

El Niño, the giant patch of unusually warm water, can persist for several years, disrupting fisheries in the eastern Pacific, producing sustained rough weather along the West Coast of the United States and causing harsh droughts in places like Indonesia, which several years ago battled enormous wildfires resulting from El Niño.

It covered the record May rains in the West, which marginally improved the situation resulting from several years of record drought in the West, and laid out the cuts that would go into effect if the water level were to fall another six inches.

It is also likely that not very many in the Rose Garden that day could imagine that severe drought would soon paralyze Texas and Oklahoma several years in a row, that massive floods would take hundreds of lives and destroy billions of dollars of property, that glaciers would recede, coral reefs would bleach and die off, or that extreme weather events like Hurricane Sandy would bring New York City and much of New Jersey to its knees.

This leads to different dynamics of the regional fire cycles: In the Northern US, negative correlations of fire with water storage or vegetation for negative lags (fire leads) suggest that the enhanced fire frequency will reduce vegetation carbon and affect subsequent droughts lasting for several years.

Several years of drought conditions similar to those that happened around 1900 (When swum south of the Sobat connection to the Nile were dried, similar dryness were also observed in Bahr — El - Zaraf) are expected to prevail over Uganda and other Equatorial Lake countries at 2009 ± 2 - 3 years, 2021 ± 2 - 3 and perhaps 2033 ± 2 - 3 years.

Given the extreme wildfires the Western U.S. has suffered over the past several years as a result of extended droughts and higher temperatures, results of changes in our global climate system, it is easy to crack a smile when reviewing these credos.

Last year, the declaration was renewed several times, as the drought showed no signs of relenting.

If that acreage isn't cared for, we'll see production decrease and we'll have a lingering impact next year or the year after that and we could be dealing with several years of accelerated food price inflation — especially if the drought persists.

After several years of drought, the lending spigot opened a little wider during 2012, as every lender group upped its volume.

When California, which has experienced severe drought for several years, enacted a law requiring additional utility disclosures for commercial buildings to meet the state's Energy Star program requirements, Neff took on the significant task of obtaining the necessary usage information from tenants.