Sentences with phrase «very wet year»

The first rain gauges in the Sahel date from 1898 and they reveal that a major drought, accompanied by large - scale famine, in the 1910s, followed by wet conditions during the 1920s and 1930s reaching a peak with the very wet year of 1936.

Some of the very wet years are caused by El Nino, a reversal of winds over the Pacific Ocean that has been going on every few years ever since there was a Pacific Ocean... People... will cite computer models predicting that El Ninos should become stronger or more frequent with global warming, but there are an awful lot of other models showing that they won't change or that they might even lessen in frequency.

The browning map for 1970 to the present that began this thread is entirely an artifact of the very wet years at the beginning of that period, as Ian Castles has noted.

[10] In the last two decades, Victoria has experienced both a 10 - 20 percent reduction in rainfall during the late autumn / winter season and a reduced frequency of very wet years.

There is a note that rainfall reconstructions are noticably less satisfactory for very wet years - which has also been commented on by other tree ring observers.

«The consequence also includes increased magnitude of wildfire, because the very wet years will prompt grass which, in very dry years, becomes fuel to burn.»

Coincident with the increasing amplitude and variability of the «dipole» pattern (Wang et al. 2014), big swings in California precipitation (i.e. the occurrence of both very wet years and very dry years) are expected to become more common over the course of the 21st century (Wang et al. 2014, Funk et al. 2014).

Not exact matches

If the spring and summer don't bring some wet relief, the U.S. might well face another year of very low yields after last year's summer drought — with the difference that global wheat, corn and soybean stocks this time around would already be depleted.

And until I had my rice lesson from her years ago, my so - called Mexican rice was awful, very wet and tomato - y, definitely not authentic.

This can be a tricky combination as you need to prepare for all weather events, both wet and very, very dry depending on the year.

You can even compost the wet ones if you want and when you are on the go you can still throw them away, but they will biodegrate very quickly unlike disposables that take 500 years to break down.

If you have a 4 year old wetting pants, or your child has an accident after that, there is usually a very clear reason as to why it happened.

Amongst my paranoia concerns are the attack of insects that can arise this time of year following a very wet spring.

«Many forest managers want post-fire years to be cooler and wetter, to help with regeneration, and that's just not happening anymore, or happening very infrequently.»

Our Very Wet Footprint The average person on earth has a virtual water footprint of about 328,410 gallons each year; that includes everything used to make the food, clothing, and other water - driven products we consume.

The Sahel is the transition zone that lies south of the Sahara Desert, and fluctuates between very dry, desert - like conditions and wetter, more temperate conditions every year.

During each of these periods the local climate of East Africa varied over a 20,000 - year cycle, from extreme aridity to very wet conditions.

And even in wet years, warmer temperatures could mean that more precipitation falls as rain, not snow, setting up the possibility that many more years will see an April 1 with very little snow.

Humans migrated out of Africa as the climate shifted from wet to very dry about 60,000 years ago, according to research led by a University of Arizona geoscientist.

This is much like what i would pack for a similar trip, and in fact, I took just this trip a year and a half ago (wet and very cold in London, unseasonably hot in Paris).

«I knew from last year that the Corvette was a very good car under wet conditions, so I was quite comfortable.»

All morning under a milky sky the waters in the bay had swelled and swelled, rising to unheard - of heights, the small waves creeping over parched sand that for years had known no wetting save for rain and lapping the very bases of the dunes.

My diversified garden may do very well this year during a hot dry summer and may do very poorly next year during a cold wet summer.

Worked all year round even in very cold or wet conditions, their coats are generally thick, warm and waterproof to deal with the most extreme climates.

Our youngest dog, who is 2 years old and is poodle / australian shepherd mix, is often not interested in his dog food (and he's had some very good, high quality food — wet and dry), but he never turns down one of these treats.

While you can visit Madagascar in the first three months of the year, you are likely to get very wet.

With some form of precipitation occurring on so many days throughout the year, there is a very good chance you'll get some wet weather during your holiday in February, so be prepared.

This period avoids the times of year that are very wet or very dry.

It would be more correct to say that 1880 represented the center of a wet spike lasting hardly a decade — a very short time in the life of an 11,000 year old glacier — and that the subsequent drying represented a return to «normal» conditions, as illustrated in the accompanying long term lake - level graph from [Nicholson and Yin, 2001].

403 Dan H I predicted a very warm and wet winter, as opposed to major Met organizations pointing the opposite direction, it is not an easy thing to go against everyone except, over the years the Major Met outfits regularly fail, especially those which preclude AGW.

Three ice cores with very high accumulation rates (1.5 m ice equivalent / year) for two of them, drilled with three different techniques (wet and dry), without clathrates or cracks in the ice, were compared.

-------- 1314 - 1316 Several famines occurred during these years (weather assumed to have been responsible, with all three years noted by various historians as «very wet»... it's a moot point though as to whether all three were really wet, or just the effects of one or two carrying over).

There can be times (possibly lasting for many many years) when temperatures are particularly warm, or particularly cold, or there can be dry or wet periods, relatively wind free, or very windy periods, very stromy periods, or periods when there is little stromy activity, cloudy periods or relatively less cloudy periods, snowy or no snowy periods, etc. etc..

This mild dry winter was followed the following year by a similarly mild but very wet winter.

There is no doubt 2011 was a very warm year in Perth thanks to hot, dry summer maxima combining with warm, wet winter / spring minima.

Winter 2004 was a very wet winter in California and in the core of the North America Monsoon (NAM) region — the 2nd wettest in the last 30 years (Figure 1), whereas summer 2005 was one of the driest monsoon seasons in Mexico, with very few hurricanes in the Eastern Pacific.

Ontario had a very wet spring this year, and this led to the growth of large insect populations — mosquitoes and black flies in particular.

Don't expect a repair or replacement if you get the Gear S2 wet or drop it, but if the battery gets very bad before a year is out, Samsung may replace it.

Don't expect to get a repair or replacement if you get a Galaxy View wet or drop it, but if the battery gets very bad before a year is out, Samsung may replace it.