Sentences with phrase «third year of a drought»

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

Californians are experiencing their third year of drought.

Not exact matches

The effect of the drought can also be seen in farm output, which fell by around one - third over the year to the March quarter, subtracting 1.1 percentage points from aggregate GDP growth.

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.

«We were in Death Valley, in the third year of our study, measuring the impacts of drought.

A study published this year by Bradley Udall, senior water and climate research scientist with the Colorado Water Institute at Colorado State University, and Jonathan Overpeck, professor of hydrology and atmospheric sciences at the University of Arizona, found that during the drought years of 2000 - 2014, the river surrendered a third of its flow because of higher temperatures in the upper basin.

The recent extreme drought of 2012 across America's breadbasket has brought the seriousness of a shortage of water to a crescendo as the Kansas Geological Survey reported that average water levels dropped nearly a third of the total decline since 1996... over a period of only two years!

Before the end of the almost 10 - year drought about a quarter of a million people had left the Great Plains, often journeying West (such as the Joads family in Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath), but at least two - thirds hunkered down and stayed put, and it is their stories that Egan records.

Despite a massive drought of notable releases at the start of the year, Nintendo and third parties are packing the Wii U's second half of 2013 with a plethora of good games.

«This is the third year of California's drought and it is on pace to be as dry as Texas was in 2011,» Nielsen - Gammon, a California native who grew up in the San Francisco area, explains.

Despite the lack of an El Niño effect, 2017 is set to be the second or third hottest year on record; hurricanes unprecedented in their power pummelled the U.S. and Caribbean; the largest wildfires California has seen burned deep into the Northern Hemisphere winter; scientists warned the «Arctic shows no sign of returning to the reliably frozen region of recent past decades»; studies revealed an ecological armageddon amongst insect populations; droughts fuelled famine and insecurity across East Africa and the Middle East; the U.N. warned the number of chronically undernourished people has risen for the first time since the turn of the century due in large part to climate impacts.

«First and foremost, we found that corn and soybean yields were the same across the three systems,» said Pimentel, who noted that although organic corn yields were about one - third lower during the first four years of the study, over time the organic systems produced higher yields, especially under drought conditions.

Haiti's third consecutive year of drought, exacerbated by the global El Niño weather phenomenon, has driven people deeper into poverty and hunger, and doubled the severely food - insecure population, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said today.

Then its third paragraph seems to imply we can begin to see some kind of ominous pattern from this cumulative experience, with its money quote being, «After a few years of big storms, bizarrely warm winters and drought warnings, we no longer want nice weather.