Sentences with phrase «wet years as»

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.

Not exact matches

The state's widespread wet autumn has helped lift rural confidence, with most farmers expecting this year to either be a better year for the agricultural economy or as just as good as last year.

As someone who has used a safety razor and practiced wet shaving for years, I've come up with a few tips.

Wet Seal and other mall - based, teen - focused peers such as Abercrombie & Fitch and American Eagle have faced challenges as mall traffic has weakened in recent years.

Wet Seal, which last year announced it would close its Arden B locations, has reported annual losses in 2012 and 2013 as sales tumbled lower.

Indeed, he creates a virtual phantasmagoria of suffering from actual instances of human barbarity that he has read about in Russian newspapers: Turkish soldiers cutting babies from their mother's wombs and throwing them in the air in order to impale them on their bayonets; enlightened parents stuffing their five - year - old daughter's mouth with excrement and locking her in a freezing privy all night for having wet the bed, while they themselves sleep soundly; Genevan Christians teaching a naive peasant to bless the good God even as the poor dolt is beheaded for thefts and murders that his ostensibly Christian society caused him to commit; a Russian general, offended at an eight - year - old boy for accidentally hurting the paw of the officer's dog, inciting his wolfhounds to tear the child to pieces; a lady and gentleman flogging their eight - year - old daughter with a birch - rod until she collapses while crying for mercy, «Papa, papa, dear papa.»

As if the cold, wet weather and dark mornings weren't enough, mother nature consistently decides that this time of year should also involve a runny nose and a constant earache.

This may not come as a surprise because, duh it's Seattle, but this year has been especially dark and wet.

In years of relatively low flow, changes in weir pool levels in conjunction with environmental water use can confer ecological benefits between the river and floodplain, such as nutrient exchange and wetting of fringing vegetation.

so wet people say we finished second, it was a great position, but don't be lulled into a false sense of security, we finished second as we were not quite as crap as the others... last year was our best chance to win the premiership... without investment, and a CB and striker, we will not finish in the top 3 this year

Ahh but TMJW have you not listened to a single word Thomas has given for the Swansea defeat?It was raining quite hard.I know because I was there.I got a little bit wet as I walked back to my car after the game and recall thinking I'm so glad I'm not a professional footballer that earns millions of pounds a year as it would mean I would get a bit wet and cold every now and then when it rained.

There are fewer worries about running back depth: four - star sophomore Carlin Fils - Aime got his feet wet last year, and four - star freshman Ty Chandler joins the rotation (as will two other freshmen, evidently).

Ever since making his debut when he was just 17 - years - old he's looked at home in the sport, and some of his performances - such as his stirring wet weather performance in Brazil last year - have already been hailed as among the great drives of all time.

He won the championship with # 22 as a British driving for a British team exactly one year later in a wet Brazilian GP.

Furthermore, 18 % of eight - year - olds wet the bed, as did 7 % of eleven - year - olds.

Know That Accidents Happen All children will continue to occasionally wet the bed, sometimes for a year or longer, as they continue to master control over their bladders and bodies.

It was common as daylight a hundred years ago, when wet nurses were employed by women who couldn't or didn't want to breastfeed.

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.

I have used prefolds in a cover as my main daytime diaper for over a year, excellent option for heavy wetters.

BTW, some cloth diapers DO allow the baby to feel dry when they pee, which is helpful when they're little, but make sure you make the switch to «feel wet» cloth diapers as they reach their toddler years.

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.

My time in the Texas Legislature, that is: in 1991, as a wet - behind - the - ears 22 - year - old (emotional age: closing in on 16), I started work for The Honorable Elton Bomer (D - Montalba), Texas State...

Existing research from the Department for Transport in 2013 shows winter is a dangerous time of year for motorists, with a reported 57,260 cars across England and Wales involved in accidents as a result of wet, flooded and icy roads.

«We need to make sure that our firefighters are getting to emergencies as quickly as possible, and believe it or not, when these boots are wet or frozen, it slows our firefighters down,» said Crowley, who noted that the firefighter union had been calling on the city to fund additional boots for nearly 20 years.

The research students get their feet wet with a 1 - year training appointment in the lab of a network investigator and are paid at the same rate as graduate students.

As Mongolia warmed during the 20th century, it experienced some wet years, similar to those during the early 13th century.

One period of particular interest is a warm, wet interglacial stage known as the Eemian that occurred from 124,000 to 119,000 years ago, featuring average global temperatures about 2 °C warmer than today.

As a result, the year's most familiar night skies are also the year's wettest, offering prime examples of how water dims, tints, and yet sometimes clarifies, our view of the universe.

«In a wet year it can be as tall as a barbed - wire fence.»

The cold, wet, and unpleasant climatic effects of the eruption led 1816 to be known as «the year without a summer,» and inspired Lord Byron to write:

The new cores, drilled from Peru's Quelccaya Ice Cap, are special because most of their 1,800 - year history exists as clearly defined layers of light and dark: light from the accumulated snow of the wet season, and dark from the accumulated dust of the dry season.

«Shrubs did rather well under these conditions because of their growing response to annual precipitation, but the grasses declined as a result of their limited response to wet years,» said Sala.

And while the drought that hit the region in 1986 stands as one of the worst of the past 350 years, the 20th century — when the agreements that govern the basin's water use were first established — was the wettest period in the region since the late 1600s.

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.

This shift from cool to warm in the North Atlantic has already had an impact; this past year at least 89,000 individual fires burned 9.5 million acres in the western U.S. Worse yet, forest management practices that have increased the number of trees in western woods — as well as relatively wet preceding decades — have put in place an abundance of fuel for future fires.

«As we build up a big archive — warm years, cold years, wet years and dry years — we can use the data to develop models of how weather and phenology are related,» he says.

Early flowering plants are thought to have been woody — meaning they maintain a prominent stem above ground across years and changing weather conditions, such as a maple tree — and restricted to warm, wet, tropical environments.

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

However, 21,000 years ago, at the peak of the last Ice Age, a period known as the Last Glacial Maximum, the Southwest was wetter than it is today — much wetter — and the Northwest was drier — much drier.

The research from Berke, assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences at the University of Notre Dame and Environmental Change Initiative affiliate, suggests that Africa has gradually become wetter over the past 1.3 million years — instead of drier as was thought previously.

«As the climate becomes increasingly more variable, we need to provide water resource managers with specific guidance on how individual warm or wet years, which may not coincide, will influence water supply,» said Brooks.

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.

Daniel Swain and colleagues model how the frequency of these rapid, year - to - year transitions from extreme dry to wet conditions — which they dub «precipitation whiplash events» — may change in California's future as a consequence of man - made warming.

«Evidence shows that more than three billion years ago Mars was wet and habitable,» said study lead author Dr. Christian Schröder, as reported on University of Stirling site.

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.

The Finns established their usage thousands of years ago, and in a traditional Finnish sauna, users experience a blast of wet heat as water hits a stove to create steam, while In North America, etc., electric saunas often omit the wet - heat step.

Viewed in this way, the seasons of the year would be classified as warm and wet, warm and dry, and cool and wet.

I hadn't shopped Wet Seal in years as well.

But nearing the end of the year, scarves would work as it's getting really wet and cold!

However, since many Mamas wear their rainboots almost year - round, rainboots can look just as fabulous paired with bare legs and dresses (or shorts) on a wet - but - warm Spring day as they do with jeans and puffer jackets in the Winter.