Sentences with phrase «large drought»
In 2010, there was an even larger drought with potentially worse damage — two «once a century» droughts just five years apart.
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«No overall or slight decrease in dryness since 1950; large variability; large drought of the 1930s dominate.»
-- «The 2012 report on extreme events by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change examined the evidence for regional changes in soil moisture since 1950, and made the following assessment for western North America: «No overall or slight decrease in dryness since 1950; large variability; large drought of the 1930s dominates.»
Recent local climate events — for instance, a large drought drying out a national forest — show up in the data as clearly increasing the local vegetation's potential to go up in flames.
(May 9, 2011) The Amazon Forest — often called the lungs of the Earth — suffered a large drought in 2005 and an even larger one in 2010, devastating populations of river dolphins and other species and leading many climate scientists to fear the worst.
With the exception of Scandinavia, the duration of the largest droughts in Europe will also last three to four times longer than in the past.
The lack of snowfall and snowpack for the winter of 2011/2012 and the following spring was a precursor to the large drought episode that impacted two - thirds of the nation during the following summer and autumn.