Sentences with phrase «wet years at»

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.

Not exact matches

It's actually quite a relief to hear from someone with years of experience who has built a substantial, multi-decade career in a major industry at a global corporation (BP / Amoco) instead of a wet - behind - the - ears «expert» who's had about 15 minutes of startup success and no clue about how he or she got there, or what to do next.

Given the dark, wet, misery of December, people will always want to do something to liven their lives up at that time of year even after the religious nonsense has been long forgotten.

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.»

I know I shouldn't wish away these years, but I'll be honest... I often have trouble convincing myself that this is, in fact true, and long for the days that I can hold a conversation with everyone at the table, all eating the same meal, at the same time — tears, messes, and wet wipes BE GONE.

He became a regular points scorer and took that brilliant victory at a soaking wet Monza, and by the end of the year Toro Rosso had scored 39 points - 10 more than it's sister - and supposedly «main» - team.

You would like to dismiss that production because he's struggled in 35 PAs this year, for a guy just getting his feet wet at AAA and who batted.256 in AA.

• British quartetof runners doggedly circled wet track on blustery day at Walton - on - Thames, England, broke unofficial world record set 20 years ago by Argentina's JoseRibas for distance covered in two hours.

Romain Grosjean failed to start last year's Brazilian GP after he spun his Haas car in challenging, wet conditions out of the last «proper» corner at Interlagos on his way to the grid.

Sometimes the things that are hardest are the most intimate — a first - grader's secret fear of going on the sports overnight because he still wets his bed, a freshman just looking at himself in the gym mirror that first day of high school wrestling tryouts, or years later lying awake and breathing in for hours before rolling out of bed to get on a flight to Helmand province.

People are making a big deal about the fact that the Panthers have basically 5 bags of wet sand at Wide Recever this year but maybe big name WRs do nt want to play with Cam because hes too good.

His teammate Jody Scheckter may have won the title that year, but it was Gilles who elevated himself to a god - like status that season by doing things like lapping 11 seconds faster than anyone else at a wet Watkins Glen and banging wheels with René Arnoux for lap after lap at Dijon.

There have of course been highlights — qualifying 3rd at Montreal in the wet in his debut year was remarkable, and he's had some great charges through the field from low grid positions.

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.

Or two years later at Interlagos in the wet?

Gorman claimed bronze in similar wet and cold conditions in the Junior Women's World Championship race in Auckland last year and in Hyde Park, went two better, leading out of the water and then at the front of the bike before pulling away with the fastest run of the day to claim her first world title.

I watched the wet spam game and at one point in the second half we were informed: «With last years transfers settling in and a new manager and a new stadium in the offing spurs fans have a great future ahead of them.»

His start was one of the best of the year, reminiscent of Senna at Donington all those years ago at a wet European GP.

According to NATA's position statement, many people engage in fitness pursuits and physical activity year - round in environments with cold, wet or windy conditions (or a combination of these), thereby placing themselves at risk of cold injury.

In fact, while most five - year - olds are fully potty - trained during the day, a 1996 study found that 33 % of them were still wetting the bed at night.

And although some little ones can learn to both make it through the night without wetting or soiling themselves (or the bed) and use the potty around the same time, it may take an additional month to even years to master staying dry at night.

I have a 5 year old that still wears pull ups at night and we tryed waking 3times a night to go potty and he pees and still wakes up wet Im convinced hes a camel cause he stores pee some how.

My seven month old soaked through it completely at night, and my two and a half year old woke up with a wet tummy.

Also, she was in cloth diapers full - time for her first year, and while at home for her second year, and never cared about being in a wet / dirty diaper, she was quite happy to sit in her own mess until I checked her (which of course made me somewhat compulsive).

So between 2.5 and 3 years (he was trained at 30 months), he probably wet the bed every other week.

I just joined ours this year and feel like I'm just getting my feet wet, but we've made competitive food (both the authorized foods sold by HISD but also the unauthorized fast food sold by student and school groups at lunch time to raise money) our number one priority this year.

IF she is still wetting the bed at 5 or 6 years old, it may be medical bed - wetting, which has been found to be biological at times.

But just because one 2.5 year old can stay dry at night doesn't mean all of them can, and in fact reinforces the idea that kids who wet the bed past toddlerhood have something «wrong» with them, when many of them simply aren't there developmentally.

My almost 7 year old is still wearing «pull - ups» and I have been told by the pediatrician that nighttime wetting isn't within the child's control like daytime wetting is — it's a physiological development that happens at different times for different kids.

I used the diaper without either of these extra inserts and my 3 1/2 year old heavy duty wetter son wasn't able to saturate it at night.

Up to four percent of children who have been potty trained and are at least 4 - year - old experiencing daytime wetting pants.

Even Juliet's wet - nurse (in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet) weaned her young nursling at three years old by putting a bad - tasting cream on her nipples.

Under the terms of the Licensing Act 1961, on the application of 500 local electors, a referendum could be held in each local government area at seven - year intervals on whether that district should be «wet» or «dry» on the Sabbath.

He went on to gain wet lab skills during a 2 - year postdoc in microbial experimental evolution in the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, supported with an EMBO Fellowship from the European Molecular Biology Organization.

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.

The scenario was simulated thousands of times in order to calculate the odds of getting a bout of extremely wet weather at that particular time of year.

In contrast, in slightly wetter parts of Mongolia the largest glaciers did date from the ice age but reached their maximum lengths tens of thousands of years earlier in the glacial period rather than at its culmination, around 20,000 years ago, when glaciers around most of the planet peaked.

In the Sonoma County experiment, the four - year - old leachate from the wet cell contained toxic salts at levels of 2000 milligrams per litre, compared with 35 000 milligrams per litre in the soup emanating from the dry tomb.

Using carbon dating and chemical analysis, researchers from Northumbria University, Newcastle have shown that significant changes in dust levels occurred in Romania around 6,100 years ago, despite the climate in Eastern Europe being relatively wet at this time, indicative of an extraregional source of such dust, most likely to be from the Sahara.

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.

Closer to home, recent outbreaks of fungal diseases in the forests of western North America have been linked to warmer and wetter conditions at specific times of year.

Reconstruction of the climate 21,000 years ago at the peak of the last ice age in the western US found that the transition between the dryer zone in the north and wetter zone in the south ran diagonally from the northwest to southeast.

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.

«It was enough for me to get my hands wet,» says Spencer, who landed a tenure - track job at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, this year.

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.

Shimon Wdowinski, a seismologist at the University of Miami, Florida, says that he has found a strong correlation between extremely wet tropical cyclones striking Taiwan and big earthquakes that occur up to three years later.

This past winter, a few places in the Northwest (notably Seattle and Portland) had their wettest winter on record, so it's easy to forget our region was in a severe drought at this time last year.

In the UK, the probability of seeing an extremely wet winter like we did this year is 25 per cent higher than it was before humans started influencing the climate, scientists announced at the European Geosciences Union conference today.

The data show that peak wet conditions for the Desert Southwest was 1,500 years ago, at which point the trend started reversing toward drier conditions.

Although evidence for a wet ancient Mars has accumulated in the subsequent years, the claim that ALH84001 once sat in water was pretty revolutionary at the time, says Kathie Thomas - Keprta, also from the Johnson Space Center.