Sentences with phrase «unusually wet years»

When the unusually wet years ended and the high crop prices collapsed, they were gone.

Not exact matches

Thanks to the unusually wet winter in California, hydroelectricity is abundant this year, says Greenlee.

Compounding matters, the country endured unusually high rainfalls this year, including the wettest April on record.

Spectrum News Meteorologist Dan Russell says it's not unusual for the pesky insect to show up this time of year; however, after an unusually wet spring, the population has exploded.

It was the first time the 1,450 - mile river had been reunited with its natural terminus in more than 60 years (aside from a brief trickle during the unusually wet 1990s).

Officials, it turned out, had estimated the Colorado's average flow after a period of unusually wet conditions, calculating that 18 million acre - feet flowed through the river each year, and dividing up some 15 million acre - feet, or 4.8 trillion gallons of water, between the states.

In fact, the research suggests that the 20th century stands out as an unusually wet blip in the 350 - year history reconstructed using those tree rings.

Composite analysis of global sea surface temperature during unusually wet and dry years also suggests a linkage between reconstructed rainfall and ENSO.

Only the final model (5f in Fig. 2) returns a statistically significant climate parameter estimate; apparently, major civil war years (i.e., years with at least 1,000 battle deaths) are more frequent in years following unusually wet periods — a result that directly contradicts the notion of scarcity - induced conflicts.