Sentences with phrase «season in dry years»

In effect, the plants had shifted to flowering a few days earlier to take full advantage of the short «wet» season in dry years.

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Wildfire seasons tend to fall in hotter and drier times of the year, when vegetation is vulnerable to burning.

Now if a farmer had 3 bad years in a row, he would lay everything he had left on the following dry season, having all hope that a miracle rain would hit.

And the best part about it is that you can eat dried fruits year round, as they are always «in season.»

We know that it is a little bit late for the nettle season but I found this big bag of dried stinging nettles while I was in Denmark, so now we can try nettle recipes all year round.

This is a great shop featuring every conceivable chile item, including fresh chile in season and dried and frozen year - round.

Fresh figs are not easily found in supermarkets unless their in season (August through October), but dried figs can be purchased year round and still contain the amazing nutrition benefits!

Since pomegranates are in season only in the autumn and early winter - and not always easy to find at the grocery store, any time of the year - you can substitute dried cranberries for a similar flavor.

In the North Bay Coast region of California, with long wet and dry seasons, the cows eat a diet of 50 — 80 % forages, which include fresh grasses, silage, and hay, depending on the time of year and pasture growth.

They're in season in early to mid-summer, but dried apricots are tasty and available year - round.

Kitson has scored eight goals by Christmas last season, although the goals dried up in the New Year, along with his team's chances of survival.

A very good striker who may become world class but he needs to finish this season in style (all dried up a bit at the moment) and repeat it next year before he is put anywhere the top of the world striker pantheon.

Too right muff — but people who swear by Costa will have to explain his elevation to football God status in the context of 120 career goals in 305 games, a player who is 27 this year and was not even noticed until last season, who has flopped in UCL this year, dud for Spain, where only 2 of his 17 league goals have directly effected the result and goals generally dried up.

Since we are in Sunny South Florida we don't really have to worry about the cold, dry season too much, but this year when the temperature dropped I was so glad to be able to protect Owen's (and Emma's too!)

A lecturer at the University of Ghana has called on the government to implement its flagship «one village, one dam» project to enable farmers to ensure year - long supply of water to their farms, even in the dry season, thereby increasing their yield.

Pacella, who was lead author on the study, used the detailed data he collected to create a model to estimate the daily carbonate chemistry weather during the summer dry season back to the year 1765, and also projected conditions ahead to 2100 altering the amount of anthropogenic carbon in the system.

The absence of a government in Somalia for more than 20 years, no focused way to address widespread food insecurity, and the worst dry seasons in 60 years have, she said, created a «perfect storm» making response measures even more difficult.

The interspersed grassy drainage - areas of great extent are deficient in calcium, phosphorus and nitrogen, and this fact, coupled with the long dry season, results in grass markedly deficient in protein for 10 months of the year.

Wellington provided the perfect venue for this study since the village is located in a region that has distinct wet and dry seasons and that is subject to permanent year - round mandatory water restrictions.

«Of course, we can not predict individual rainstorms in California and their local impacts months or seasons ahead, but we can use our climate computer model to determine whether on average the next year will have drier or wetter soils or more or less wildfires.

Brawn's team looked at the relationship between population growth rates and the length of the dry season during those 33 years, then simulated another 50 years with an average of a 10 percent change in the rainfall pattern in Panama's dry season.

Wildfires are an annual occurrence during the dry season in Indonesia and are responsible up to 10 per cent of the country's greenhouse gas emissions each year.

Every year, when the dry season comes and the water level drops, billions of ornamental fish lie doomed in drying puddles.

For example, in years that had more than average burning during the dry season, measurements of soil moisture, evaporation and vegetation greenness — all of which help to trigger rain — decreased in the following wet season.

Take spoonbills, which thrived in ponds and ditches at Oostvaardersplassen until a dry season a few years ago eliminated their habitat.

Dried parsley is one of the most widely - used herbal seasonings in the world, and it can be found in most grocery stores and supermarkets throughout the year.

Make sure you enjoy this tasty fruit and its nutritional benefits while it is in season, or the dried version throughout the year!

When shopping for spaghetti squash (which I encourage you all to do this time of year, since it's in season), you'll want to look for one that is heavy for it's size, with a firm, dry rounded stem (this helps to keep out bacteria).

The dried fennel seed, however, is a common seasoning found in major supermarkets worldwide throughout the year.

How about fresh blueberries in season, other fruits when they are in season, and dried blueberries etc the rest of the year?

Fresh cherries have a short season in the summer, so enjoy their antioxidant benefits all year long by tossing dried cherries into snack mix or oatmeal, or using frozen cherries in smoothies.

In countries that suffer from annual drought or famine before harvest season, dried Moringa Tree leaves can be made into a powder and used throughout the year.

Viewed in this way, the seasons of the year would be classified as warm and wet, warm and dry, and cool and wet.

Over these last ten years living in the United States, I have come to truly appreciate the delights of this season, as the region where I grew up in Brazil only has two: the dry season and the rainy season.

Portrays a year in the life revealing how animals and plants cope with the stresses of life in a place that swings savagely between the drenching floods of the annual wet and the parched heat of the dry season.

Each year in the late dry season, hot bushfires sweep through a large proportion of this area causing significant damage.

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There are as many as 25 dive sites on the Gili Islands with varying topography and diverse marine life which includes reef sharks, turtles lionfish, cuttlefish, sea snakes, scorpion fish, octopus, moray eels, and many types of rays, among others.It is possible to dive in Gili Islands throughout the year, and the best time is between the month of May — October, during the dry season.

You should not assume that by travelling in the «dry season» you are safe as it only takes one bite by an infected mosquito at any time of the year to contract malaria.

Temperatures are consistently warm but comfortable throughout the year, but it's important to keep in mind when planning your travel to Hawaii that May through October is dry season, while November through April is the rainy season.

The best time of year to go diving or snorkelling in and around Sihanoukville is December to April when the dry season and currents mean that visibility is at its best.

There are high temperatures all year round, although there's a distinct wet and dry season in the region.

The rainy season is driest up here in northwest Costa Rica, making Tamarindo a perfect vacation destination any time of the year.

Hi Nicole, Living in Townsville for the last three years (formerly Brisbane) This year was unseasonably hot and dry to be exact driest wet season since records have been kept.

Diving in Raja Ampat is year round though some divers prefer the dry season as diving conditions are best at this time.

This spot breaks all year round, in the dry season there is always swell, the winds turn it on shore but early mornings and late afternoons, the wind tends to die down.

Botswana's Chobe National Park is a prolific year - round wildlife area renowned for buffalo and elephant herds, with big cats most visible in the dry season (May - Oct) when the wildlife concentrates around water.

Diving in the Komodo National Park is year round, however, March to October which is the dry season provides the best conditions.

May to September is officially the dry season but in the mountains it is unusual not to have some rain at any time of year.

We offer surf lessons year around here with STN, we have beaches that are blocked from the big south swells of the rainy season and waves that pick up any little bit of swell in the dry season!