Sentences with phrase «fourth year of drought»

Cape Town is entering its fourth year of drought — the worst in 100 years, with an average of 234 millimetres of rainfall a year for the past three years, less than half the average since 1977.

In an interview with National Geographic, President Obama stressed the importance of California's conservation efforts amid a fourth year of drought, laid out his expectations for this year's climate conference in Paris, and reiterated America's commitment to a «low - carbon future.»

«This is the fourth year of drought,» Mr. Ahmed told me.

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Along the U.S. West Coast, the jet stream was shifted hundreds of kilometers north last winter, which had the effect of dousing the Pacific Northwest with extraordinary precipitation while Southern California experienced its fourth straight year of drought.

Last year's dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico was the fourth smallest on record due to drought conditions, covering an area of approximately 2,889 square miles, an area slightly larger than the state of Delaware.

Governor Jerry Brown had to institute California's first - ever statewide mandatory water restrictions, as the state has entered its fourth year of severe drought.

California is facing its fourth consecutive year of drought, and the state is tightening water restrictions.

In 2013, the second year of the ongoing drought, California had its sixth - warmest year, and 2012 was its fourth, NOAA's National Climatic Data Center has reported.

The present drought is now in its fourth year, and is one of the longest consecutive periods during which conditions are severely dry and severely warm.

The state is now entering its fourth year of severe drought conditions, with an estimated economic impact approaching $ 2 billion, according to a University of California, Davis report.