Sentences with phrase «during wet years»

«And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years.

Even during wet years, summer lightning will cause significant fires.

Conversely, manakins» survival rates were higher during wet years associated with La Niña events in these young forests where increased moisture and sun exposure likely led to an abundance of fruit resources.

But during wet years, hot days resulted in late starts.

That stimulus occurs only during wet years, when both flamingo abundance and water level are high.

The researchers also found that increases in stream flow would be observed only during wet years.

Not exact matches

To most people during those years, wet shaving simply meant shaving with water in any form or amount.

During a series of wet years or successful watering events, demands (agriculture and environment) for water are low, while extended dry conditions commonly result in high demands.

In fact, while most five - year - olds are fully potty - trained during the day, a 1996 study found that 33 % of them were still wetting the bed at night.

Bed wetting is for children from the ages of 5 up to 13 years old who have wetting accidents during the night.

Two years ago, the UK experienced horrendous floods during its wettest winter ever.

Notably, the rise and expansion of both the Indus Valley civilization (from about 5350 years to about 4600 years ago) and the Vedic civilization (from about 3450 years to about 3100 years ago) occurred during periods when climate was relatively warm, wet, and stable.

He went on to gain wet lab skills during a 2 - year postdoc in microbial experimental evolution in the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, supported with an EMBO Fellowship from the European Molecular Biology Organization.

During cooler La Nina wet years, the Amazon appears greener.

It was the first time the 1,450 - mile river had been reunited with its natural terminus in more than 60 years (aside from a brief trickle during the unusually wet 1990s).

While aquifers do recharge over time — the nation's water tables kept to a relatively constant level during the historically wet, cool years of the 1960s and 1970s — that rate of recharge can't make up for water use in the West.

First, the slight recharge that would occur in wetter years is all but absent during times of dryness.

As Mongolia warmed during the 20th century, it experienced some wet years, similar to those during the early 13th century.

Combining their numbers with climate data, they found that during the El Niño years (1992 - 93 and 1997 - 98), which bring cooler, wetter conditions to the birds» Central American wintering sites, juveniles born that season outnumbered adults 2 or 3 to 1.

Archaeological evidence shows humans occupied much of the Sahara during the wet period, but left for about a thousand years around 8,000 years ago — the middle of the Green Sahara period.

However, for the past 6,100 years the number of testate amoebae present show the bog was constantly wet, despite numerous large dust deposits during this time.

«We're developing our habits of how we use water during one of the wettest periods of the last 300 years,» Pederson said.

They find that a wetter climate and lower sea levels could have enticed humans to cross from Africa into the Arabian Peninsula and the Middle East during four periods, roughly around 100,000, 80,000, 55,000, and 37,000 years ago.

For example, in years that had more than average burning during the dry season, measurements of soil moisture, evaporation and vegetation greenness — all of which help to trigger rain — decreased in the following wet season.

During each of these periods the local climate of East Africa varied over a 20,000 - year cycle, from extreme aridity to very wet conditions.

The hybridization event probably took place around 150,000 years ago, when — during a wet period — a Congolese lineage colonized the Lake Victoria region and encountered representatives of the Upper Nile lineage.

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.

And while rain during these months is not uncommon, the amount that we received this water year skewed heavily toward the higher, wetter end of the spectrum.

The United Kingdom observed 1289 mm of total rainfall on average during 2015, marking its sixth wettest year in the 116 - year period of record.

Researchers believe it formed on Mars 1.3 billion years ago and was altered by water during the Red Planet's wet past before being blasted to Earth during the last 10,000 years.

Spending more than 10 years studying and practicing the ancient art of Hijama wet cupping under various teachers around the world, Dr. Tawwab first learned about cupping therapy during medical school in Ajman, UAE, after suffering a sports injury.

Thus, the pair (who wet their feet on 1996's Spy Hard) was back this year, with Epic Movie, another parody flick positioned to open during Hollywood's off - season.

The threat of rain only served to heighten the anxiety felt by all involved with the Corvette Racing programme and, while a wet race was declared with less than 20 minutes on the clock, Gavin deployed all of the lessons learned during 14 years of competition at Le Mans to protect his position.

My diversified garden may do very well this year during a hot dry summer and may do very poorly next year during a cold wet summer.

The Inland way (Mulligan Highway) is open all year but can experience road closures at McLeod River during the wet months.

In some areas mosquitoes may be more active during the wet season, but mosquitoes can bite all year round.

In 2006, improvements along this Coastal Trail route enhanced public access to this special area year - round, particularly during the wet winter months.

With some form of precipitation occurring on so many days throughout the year, there is a very good chance you'll get some wet weather during your holiday in February, so be prepared.

Sea temperatures do not vary much during the year but the frequency of rain, in this amazing (but relatively wet) destination is a seasonal factor.

The décor will remind you of life during the Steinbeck years, but the amenities are strictly 21st century, including a screening room, wine cellar, wet bar and games room.

Surf - season continues all through the year with wind being lighter during the wet season, and the water temperature stays around 25 - 30 degrees Celsius through all year.

It should be noted that Machu Picchu is surrounded by forest of the Amazon Basin and showers are to be expected at any time of year, but are more intense and frequent during the wet season.

Most of it falls during the night however, and while some months are wetter than others, diving vacations in Palau are enjoyable year round.

Manny Farber's monumental color field paintings created in New York and California during the years 1967 through 1975 were cut, stained, saturated, sliced, wet, glued, painted, folded, collaged, pleated, pasted, layered, dripped, brushed, glazed, bled, marked, colored, tinted, textured, smeared, pierced, trimmed, slit, creased, buffed, wiped, varnished, washed, graphed, drawn, scraped, burnished, rubbed, scoured, soaked, coated, veiled, and wrapped.

«This exact moment I'm focused on work for a solo show opening this spring at Pari Nadimi in Toronto featuring new gestural software for making dripping wet feminist abstract expressionist video paintings,» he tells The Creators Project, adding that 2016 will also be the year during which his wife and him going to give birth to their first child in VR.

[10] In the last two decades, Victoria has experienced both a 10 - 20 percent reduction in rainfall during the late autumn / winter season and a reduced frequency of very wet years.

Research indicates that the Arctic had substantially less sea ice during this period compared to present Current desert regions of Central Asia were extensively forested due to higher rainfall, and the warm temperate forest belts in China and Japan were extended northwards West African sediments additionally record the «African Humid Period», an interval between 16,000 and 6,000 years ago when Africa was much wetter due to a strengthening of the African monsoon While there do not appear to have been significant temperature changes at most low latitude sites, other climate changes have been reported.

The first rain gauges in the Sahel date from 1898 and they reveal that a major drought, accompanied by large - scale famine, in the 1910s, followed by wet conditions during the 1920s and 1930s reaching a peak with the very wet year of 1936.

What if students and professionals alike banded together to create «sleeping pods»: new, innovative little homes for people in need during the coldest, wettest months of the year?

-------- 1314 - 1316 Several famines occurred during these years (weather assumed to have been responsible, with all three years noted by various historians as «very wet»... it's a moot point though as to whether all three were really wet, or just the effects of one or two carrying over).