Sentences with phrase «lack of rainfall»

Lack of rainfall in recent months has left soils completely dry and unable to release moisture that would take up heat from the air through evaporation.

The researchers examined the drought in terms of lack of rainfall, water availability, and water demand.

Firstly remember that while the drought is caused by lack of rainfall, famine is man - made.

2016 was a year of contrasts, promising a superb vintage, characterized by uniform flowering at the origin of good pollination, substantial lack of rainfall during the summer combined with abundant sunshine and evenly - occurring veraison.

The drought in California does not appear to have had a major effect on this years» crop, but many fear that continuing lack of rainfall could have a large impact on 2015 results.

According to the Texas Forest Service, as many as 500 million trees in the state — roughly 10 percent of the forests there — have been killed within the last year alone as a result of 2011's bizarre lack of rainfall.

Lack of rainfall coupled with millions of dead and dying trees also exacerbate the wildfire risk throughout the region.

The exact cause is unknown, but it looks like it's related to climate change, lack of rainfall, and excess salinity in the lake,» says Morton.

For the past five years, lack of rainfall has dried up California's natural resources, forcing the state and communities to institute drought measures and water control.

Because deforestation also contributes to a lack of rainfall, sustainable farming methods will — one expects — become more and more important to the Tanzanian coffee industry.

Last month, I opined about barren ski slopes, lack of rainfall and a «False Spring».

By analysing data from the past, the researchers checked whether the model would have predicted the lack of rainfall associated with the prolonged droughts of the 1970s and 1980s — and they found it was very effective.

This focussed on the lack of rainfall in the Levant region in 2014 during a time that would normally have been the rainy season, and found human - induced climate change did increase the risk of such a severe and unprecedented drought by around 45 %.

They also concluded that the lack of rainfall in southeast Brazil in 2014 and 2015 while unusual was not unprecedented, with similar dry periods occurring before, with the most recent in 2001.

The lack of rainfall does not help the situation.

Rising temperatures, a lack of rainfall and fewer storms allow pollution to gather and stagnate, and that in turn could have detrimental effects on public health.

With year - round temperatures of around 26 degrees, a Sahara breeze and lack of rainfall, this island is the ultimate escape.

The worst drought in at least 50 years has hit China but it's not a lack of rainfall that's getting the brunt of the blame from Chinese farmers and neighboring countries.

Strictly speaking, it was the lack of rainfall that did them in, but this was during the medieval warm period.

It is estimated that more than 62 thousand families have been affected by the lack of rainfall with over half the municipalities in the region having enacted a state of emergency.

The lack of rainfall in October and November came as a blow to farmers because September — just before the planting season — was tantalizingly wet.

Drought always causes higher temperatures, but curiously they also reported that given the lack of rainfall the high temperatures were not as high as expected writing, «The scatter plot shows that 2012 was the driest summer in the historical record, though the temperature anomaly of +2 °C was exceeded by two prior summers — 1934 and 1936.

Dr. Hoerling contended that Dr. Hansen's new paper confuses drought, caused primarily by a lack of rainfall, with heat waves.

There's been some confusion about the human influence on the drought because two studies published this year didn't find a connection to the lack of rainfall.

Drought is primarily driven by a lack of rainfall, but warmer temperatures can exacerbate drought impacts by increasing evaporation.

Drought occurs when there is a lack of rainfall over a long period of time, resulting in water shortages for groups of people, activities or the environment.

Higher than average temperatures — particularly during the winter months — have combined with a lack of rainfall to produce severe drought conditions across much of the state.

Panel data models indicate that excess and lack of rainfall have the most important harmful effects on newborns» health (temperature stresses and low relative humidity also have effects).

Climatologists have already warned of a lack of rainfall associated with the global warming phenomena, but perhaps never before has the scale of a damage that results been measured so close to home.