Sentences with phrase «wet years»

During dry years it takes over the sand bars, but floods in wet years clear things out and produce new sand bars.

The climate is changing, and overall we are experiencing more consistently dry years, with wet years becoming few and far between.

After an extremely wet year, health authorities are concerned that southern states may suffer a similar effect.

In particular, the closeness to the water can bring a major chance for household flooding during particularly wet years.

A new study suggests that the state should expect more dramatic swings between dry and wet years as the climate warms, with potentially devastating floods becoming more likely.

When you have a long time between wet years, you have a lot of nutrient buildup in the soils, and that nutrient buildup is due these organisms.

What extreme wet years offer, biologists suggest, is a window of opportunity.

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

In wet years, the rings are fat; in lean years, thin.

The researchers also found that increases in stream flow would be observed only during wet years.

2012 was the UK's second wettest year on record and cost the economy # 600 million.

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.

Worldwide, 2011 was the second wettest year on record over land.

But when wetter years poured more freshwater into the Bay, colonial tunicates (right) took over.

Overall, it was the third wettest year in Australia since recordkeeping began in 1900.

This was the 15th wettest year for Alaska.

It's slightly wetter than the previous wettest year, 1969, but I wouldn't say it's abnormal.»

Bill Kininmonth wondered if those cooler - BOM years were also wetter years when more rain fell.

«Local floodplains require a drying phase after a number of consecutive wet years.

During cooler La Nina wet years, the Amazon appears greener.

The increased moisture could trigger plagues of locusts in Africa, just as the odd wet year does now.

Wet years come as a huge relief to the reservoir managers, but when the lakes get low, tensions start to run high.

It's great for recreation, power supply; there are a lot of smiles because of how wet this year has been.»

Drier years result in more and larger circles, whereas wetter years cause them to shrink and disappear

Conversely, manakins» survival rates were higher during wet years associated with La Niña events in these young forests where increased moisture and sun exposure likely led to an abundance of fruit resources.

On our advice, the government is constructing new banks and canals to keep parts of the marshes wet all year round and help sustain the local economy.

Electric fences have been installed in the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, the only pathway that remains wet all year.

However, Chang's team noticed a couple native species did better in wet years too.

The United Kingdom observed 1289 mm of total rainfall on average during 2015, marking its sixth wettest year in the 116 - year period of record.

Precipitation is highly variable from year to year, with wet years alternating with drought years.

In fact, a few wet years around 1960, and a moderate shift to wetter conditions in subsequent years, restored the Lake Victoria level to within 1.5 meters of its high - stand.

With this evidence on hand we recommend in similar wet years to keep Saiga off such dangerous pastures and train the responsible rangers in identifying the described dangerous conditions.

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.

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That's a recipe for drier dry years and wetter wet years.

The first kind of precipitation whiplash is from year to year, meaning that we'll see more extraordinarily dry years followed by incredibly wet years — in the way California's five - year drought ended in 2017 in one of the wettest winters on record.

This was the 24th wettest year on record.

According to Neilson, the latest models suggest that parts of the US are experiencing longer - term precipitation patterns, with less year - to - year variability but several wet years in a row followed by several years that are drier than normal.

Wet years returned from 2010 — 2011.