Sentences with phrase «normal rainfall years»

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During a 5 - year period between 1988 and 1998 when total rainfall from April to August was less than 14 inches (compared to 20 inches in normal years), average organic corn yields were 31 % greater than conventional system.

Above - normal rainfall now predicted for California Weather officials on Monday updated a rain outlook for the month of December, saying now that there will be above - normal rainfall moving toward the New Year that will have a significant effect on the drought outlook...

Meteorologists warn the worst is yet to come, with the storm expected to dump 200 to 300 millimeters of rain in a single day — two to three times the country's normal rainfall for an entire year.

This year's fire risk comes on the heels of a severe drought in eastern and southeastern Brazil, where the satellite data showed a continued reduction in rainfall and a drawdown of groundwater associated with lower than normal precipitation.

Unlike the freakish situation in California, where several years of low snowfall and rainfall are serving as a reminder of the tremendous natural variability in Pacific - influenced weather, and the need to always be vigilant when it comes to managing water supplies, the situation in Washington resembles the parched climate - changed normal for swaths of the West in the decades ahead.

Part of Colorado received more than 1000 % of their normal rainfall for this time of year.

During a normal year of rainfall, wildflowers are best viewed in late winter and spring.

Please note that on average once in three years we do have above normal rainfall in the Eastern Cape and then the entrance / exit bridge is flooded, but usually within 24 hours after the rain it is accessible again.

Extreme rainfall events are the new normal, all the year.

WHEREAS Statewide rainfall has been below normal in 2007 and 2008, with many Southern California communities receiving only 20 percent of normal rainfall in 2007, and Northern California this year experiencing the driest spring on record with most communities receiving less than 20 percent of normal rainfall from March through May; and

During a 5 - year period between 1988 and 1998 when total rainfall from April to August was less than 14 inches (compared to 20 inches in normal years), average organic corn yields were 31 % greater than conventional system.

Observational data, evidence from field experiments, and quantitative modeling are the evidence base of the negative effects of extreme weather events on crop yield: early spring heat waves followed by normal frost events have been shown to decimate Midwest fruit crops; heat waves during flowering, pollination, and grain filling have been shown to significantly reduce corn and wheat yields; more variable and intense spring rainfall has delayed spring planting in some years and can be expected to increase erosion and runoff; and floods have led to crop losses.4, 5,6,7

Predictions by the Southern African Regional Climate Outlook Forum of a normal to below - normal rainfall season this year spell disaster for Southern Africa's agricultural sector in Zimbabwe, Botswana, Mozambique and South Africa.

Natural processes changed the timing and magnitude of soil moisture, streamflow, and groundwater deficits by up to several years, and caused the amplification of rainfall declines in streamflow to be greater than in normal dry years.

Extreme rainfall was not as much of a feature of 2013 globally as it has been in some recent years, though monsoon season rainfall was generally above normal both in the Indian subcontinent and the Sahel region of west and central Africa.

Even without the new factor of a changing climate, it is time to acknowledge that California is in permanent long - term shortage: even in a «normal» rainfall year more water is now demanded and used than nature provides, leading to growing political conflict, unsustainable groundwater overdraft, and ecological destruction of the state's rivers, streams, and wetlands.

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), even if a normal amount of rainfall occurred this year, it could not have offset the drying effect of the record - breaking heat.

In other words rainfall in normal years is now below expectations.

Even in purely agricultural areas, things are looking good this summer with rainfall at normal levels and grain prices improving from earlier in the year, says Century 21.