Sentences with phrase «most widespread drought»

The Great Plains are finally beginning to enjoy cloudbursts of relief from two years of epic drought — the worst in the region's history, and part of the most widespread drought to afflict the U.S. since 2000.

THE blizzards that hit the north - east US may have dominated the headlines last weekend, but across much of the country the most widespread drought in more than half a century is still biting — especially along the nation's iconic waterways (see diagram).

Not exact matches

For instance, during both the relatively warm twelfth century, and the relatively cold fifteenth century, drought was observed to be most widespread in the Northern Hemisphere.

«There's a lot of research on how different kinds of environmental disasters — such as forest fires, hurricanes, air pollution, or heat waves — impact human health, but the most widespread natural disaster is drought,» said lead author Jesse Berman, a postdoctoral fellow at the Yale FE&S, in a press release.

The decade saw droughts across the world, with some of the longest and most severe in Australia (2002 and other years), East Africa (2004 and 2005, resulting in widespread loss of life) and the Amazon basin (2010).

Evidence for widespread drought intensification is less clear and inherently difficult to confirm with available data because of the increase of time - integrated precipitation at most locations other than the subtropics.

The most widespread and severe drought conditions occurred in the 1930s and 1950s (Andreadis et al., 2005).

The warmest, driest, most widespread interval of drought documented in the streamflow, DAI and temperature records occurred in the mid-12th century (Fig. 2 and Fig.

Evidence for widespread drought intensification is less clear and inherently difficult to confirm with available data because of the increase of time - integrated precip - itation at most locations other than the subtropics.