Sentences with phrase «many years of drought»

«Malawi has shown progress in achieving macroeconomic stabilization following two years of drought, with a rebound in growth and inflation reduced to single...

Some experts argue that four years of drought in Syria helped contribute to its civil war.

It will not worry in a year of drought or cease producing fruit.

Environmental water policies that show greater concern for bait fish than for food production, combined with years of drought, have strangled area farmers to the point that much of the arable land is returning to its natural semi-arid state.

It has no worries in a year of drought, and never fails to bear fruit.»

Two years of drought seem broken by a deluge that would be the wrath of God were it not mercy.

Organic systems perform especially well during years of drought.

Weather Officials Say El Nino Is a Bust as California Enters 6th Year of Drought El Nino was a bust and water remains in short supply as California enters a sixth year of drought.

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Northern California had a good season, with precipitation totals approaching normal after four years of drought conditions...

Rural Funds Group's investments in cattle and cotton follows a decrease in demand for almond plantings (which still account for almost half of its portfolio by value) after California, the world's biggest almond growing region, lifted production following many years of drought.

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.

Geoff is also concerned about the availability of water throughout Australia, especially the Murray - Darling Basin, which after years of drought is in a dire condition.»

«We had 10 years of drought, then hail and frost and then floods,» he says, shooing away flies that are congregating around the untended young peaches.

Compare that to 9 years of drought and maybe money does buy quality.

Years of drought and a century of aggressive fire suppression have rendered vast areas of the West susceptible to large, severe blazes.

«It takes a few years of drought to kill most Sahelian trees,» he explained.

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.

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

Much of the region is in its fifth year of drought.

«After two years of drought and tremendous loss of crops, this year they're losing crops because it's too wet,» says Davidson.

Federal drought experts found that parts of California descended into «exceptional» drought last week for the first time in 15 years of drought mapmaking by the federal government.

The paradox is that this season stands in such stark contrast to the past 11 years of drought, highlighting the types of variability that climate change can wreak on the hydrological cycle.

«So farmers, after suffering from 10 years of drought, invest heavily in crops.

Dozens of fires are raging across California, Oregon and Washington, many triggered by lightening and spreading rapidly through parched forest and vegetation as the West Coast endures years of drought and warmer - than - average winters.

And last winter may not have been a fluke: Those kinds of extremes — years of deluge and years of drought — are already becoming more common as climate change accelerates.

Devastating floods occurred with the Mississippi River in 2011, and this marked the start of a record - breaking year of droughts and heat waves in the United States that stretched into the fall of 2012, as well as the lowest level of ice extent in the Arctic.

Heavy, but intermittent, rains in the last two months have broken the back of two years of drought.

They just had the years of drought, so Marjory's husband figured the flood was next.

After years of drought, much of the state is now experiencing one of its wettest years on record.

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

Throughout, Tiffany (an agricultural journalist living in Melbourne) explores the themes of man against nature, and the nature of man against man, but she also captures a big slice of social history, illustrating the incredible hardships of the time - the great depression, extensive years of drought, the memories of one war still present and the impending onset of another - stories that are at one level uniquely Australian but at another level, totally universal.

Whether it be Natural Gas prices responding the Polar Vortex, hundreds of thousands of Cattle dying because of an early winter storm in the plain states, or a plentiful corn crop recovering from a year of drought; climate affects futures prices.

However, primitive Mayans were unfortunately believed to have slowly perished due to 200 continuous years of drought.

Are you comparing sonys start this gen to microsofts 3 years of drought....

Cunene region, where torrential rainfall is recovering the flora of the region after more than a year of drought

What we are speaking of is years of drought over large areas occasionally interrupted by periods of severe flooding.

Five years of drought now, and near - total failure of November rains.

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

Sacramento is also in its third year of drought, so clearly not an area with an overabundance of water, especially at this time.

Organic systems perform especially well during years of drought.

Ten - plus years of drought in territory that was past its carrying capacity led to massive dust storms, which reached the East Coast.

It is known from other sources that these were years of drought - induced famine, political unrest, and large - scale migration of tribes.

After six years of drought, California was deluged in 2017 by sequential «atmospheric rivers» causing the highest January / February rainfall on recent record.

Californians are experiencing their third year of drought.

In Syria, 15 years of drought are thought to have played a part in triggering the cruel civil war that has displaced millions and created a refugee crisis for Europe, and even briefly masked the entire region in an unprecedented dust storm.

Colleague Will Steffen in 2015 forecast 80 years of drought there, just like fellow catastrophists predicted centuries of drought in California.

Again, the 10th consecutive year of drought in Australia, even if not caused by AGW, is one example and that is rich country, which can cope.

But, go tell that to the farmers in Australia (10 th year of drought), to the millions living in poor delta areas, to the Tonga people tasting salt in their drinking water.

Indeed, assuming business as usual, each of the next 80 years in the American West is expected to see less rainfall than the average of the five years of the drought that hit the region from 2000 to 2004.