Sentences with phrase «severe drought year»

2011 was a severe drought year in the southern plains, and the dryness really became entrenched early in the year.

Not exact matches

South Africa's maize crop was decimated with current forecasts pointing to a 26.6 percent lower harvest this year due to the severe drought.

Scattered thunderstorms in the Rockies and parts of the Southwest are doing little to ease the hardships caused by the severe drought, now going on almost three years in some states.

But severe drought forced him to move to Kolenberg, within two years.

The downside of the current climatic conditions of California is yet another year of severe drought.

WELLINGTON — Milk collection across New Zealand was slightly lower in the 11 months to April 30 as farmers struggled to weather a severe drought early this year, New Zealand dairy company Fonterra Co-Operative Group Ltd. (FCG.NZ) said Wednesday.

Of course it makes sense — after four consecutive years of severe drought in California, even the coast, where it's always foggy and misty, is dried up so well, that mushrooms are nowhere to be seen!

On Tuesday, a United Nations agency warned that severe drought conditions are putting this year's wheat crop at risk in at least five Chinese provinces — five provinces that account for about two - thirds of the country's total wheat production.

For the past three years there has been a severe drought in South Africa.

«As Christians we should keep praying, even pastors have been saying that we should pray hard otherwise the drought this year will be severe but I don't want it to look as if we don't know what we are doing at the ministry,» he said.

U.S. Senator Charles Schumer is calling on the USDA to begin the process of issuing a disaster declaration to help Upstate New York farmers who suffer major losses and crop damage from this year's severe drought..

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

California has been in a drought since 2011 and this multi-year period of low precipitation, by some measures, is the state's most severe in 500 years.

«So it's going to take up to 20 years to implement a sustainable groundwater management plan,» she said, «and if you are overdrafting today and you are in the middle of a severe drought, of course it doesn't seem like this is fast enough, but it is complicated.»

Some, particularly in Texas last year during a crushingly severe drought, have even liquidated the whole ranch.

Last year, Paolo D'Odorico of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville showed that a rise in the virtual water trade makes societies less resilient to severe droughts (Geophysical Research Letters, DOI: 10.1029 / 2010GL043167).

THE COLLAPSE of the Mayan civilisation in Central America some thousand years ago may have been caused by a severe drought.

With California in its fifth year of severe drought and many western states experiencing another year of unusually dry conditions, plants are stressed.

The researchers were not to know that during the year of their study there would be a severe drought, which led to the death of the study animals.

Over the past 15 years, parts of the western U.S. have experienced severe drought conditions and an increasing number of wildfires that take a toll on people and ecosystems.

Five consecutive years of severe drought in California, a dramatic rise in bark beetle infestation and warmer temperatures are leading to these historic levels of tree die - off.

Increasingly severe drought events will occur almost every 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.

The glaciers» importance only grows during drought, which climate scientists expect to be more frequent and severe in coming years.

Wildfires across the western United States have been getting bigger and more frequent over the last 30 years — a trend that could continue as climate change causes temperatures to rise and drought to become more severe in the coming decades, according to new research.

OU researchers combined the surface water area data with the land water storage data from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment during 2002 to 2016 to investigate the data dynamics in severe drought and pluvial years.

Severe rainfall deficits this year have lead to widespread drought that has decimated the maize crop, costing hundreds of millions of dollars in losses.

This past winter, a few places in the Northwest (notably Seattle and Portland) had their wettest winter on record, so it's easy to forget our region was in a severe drought at this time last year.

California has been struck by severe drought in recent years, and its scientists are turning to groundwater to meet the surface water the state needs.

Looking at extremes, consider the stark contrast between the severe droughts in California in recent years and the torrential downpours, mudslides and flooding this past winter.

The 1997 drought, Indonesia's most severe in 50 years, was largely the result of El Niño.

The study, published Thursday in the journal Science by a team of by researchers at the University of Utah and Princeton University, shows that the world's forests take an average of between two and four years to return to their normal growth and carbon dioxide absorption rate following a severe drought — a finding that has significant climate implications.

Governor Jerry Brown had to institute California's first - ever statewide mandatory water restrictions, as the state has entered its fourth year of severe drought.

November 14, 2014 • Three years of severe drought in California is forcing farmers and ranchers to make some tough choices.

Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama have experienced severe droughts over the past year due to a particularly intense El Niño weather phenomenon, reducing the availability of water and possibly vegetation that howler monkeys feed on.

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

«Finally, the climate science of the past and present effect of climate modes modulating regional rainfall in the Northern most parts of Nigeria points to a return of severe droughts in about 15 years.

Not if it saves 10 trillion dollars in property damage, 100,000 lives a year due to drought - induced famine, increased frequency and intensity of severe weather events, or other related incidents.

If the climate goes back to what it has been for thousands of years that will be fine, but if it continues to become uninhabitable in the South of this country, and prolonged severe and exceptional drought will do just that, we must plan for the future.

Mr. deBuys compares the landscape today with the conditions of 1903, when a government naturalist named Vernon O. Bailey surveyed the area and its high - altitude forests, or the drought years of the 1950s, when Tony Hillerman, the writer whose novels brought the arid landscape to life, recorded the effects of what was regarded then as a pretty severe dry spell.

Floods part of the year, and severe drought the other.

The need was triggered by the severe drought of 1988/89 that produced the lowest flow on the river in 90 + years of record.

Finally, incorrectly scale it up to 40 percent to adjust for the El Nino drought year and the caveat that our estimate is «even less [than half] during years of severe drought».

Overall, we find that present estimates of annual deforestation for Brazilian Amazonia capture less than half of the forest area that is impoverished each year, and even less during; years of severe drought.

In the course of the last 15 years, governments and authorities the world over have been warned loudly and repeatedly that global warming could be accompanied by a greater risk of severe weather - related events: floods, heatwaves, ice storms, typhoons and droughts.

By Peter Gleick, President and Heather Cooley, Water Program Director August 26, 2015 California is in a severe drought — four years long now.

More than 300,000 refugees fled severe drought, conflict and famine in southern Somalia in 2011 into Ethiopia and Kenya (William Davies / AFP / Getty Images) That's why, in recent years, many of the world's wealthier nations — including the United States, Germany, Britain, and Japan — have promised billions of dollars in aid to help developing countries adapt to the impacts of global warming and switch over to cleaner energy sources.

This year's California drought was the most recent iteration of this severe event featuring a ridiculously resilient high pressure ridge that has continued to rob California of much of its typical seasonal moisture.

Amazon drying and wildfires also made news this year amidst a severe drought gripping the Sao Paulo megalopolis in Southeastern Brazil.

Climatologist and lead author Colin Kelley notes in an article he cowrote for the International Peace Institute, «three of the four most severe multiyear droughts in Syria's observed record occurred during the last 30 years, when the rate of global carbon emissions has seen its largest increase.»