Sentences with phrase «year of drought»

Much of the region is in its fifth year of drought.

«We're in the third year of a drought so these are unprecedented conditions,» she said.

After 20 years of drought conditions, some scientists are calling for better terminology to describe the impact of rising temperatures in the region.

This was attributed to several possible factors such as high rainfall in 1998 after many years of drought, which was thought to have stimulated plant growth.

The last few years of drought haven't been kind to the woods at all.

10 Years of top four finish but 0 cups = Years of drought and years of failure.

What we are speaking of is years of drought over large areas occasionally interrupted by periods of severe flooding.

California is facing its fourth consecutive year of drought, and the state is tightening water restrictions.

California just entered its fourth year of drought, and 40 % of the state is listed as suffering from «exceptional drought,» the most severe classification on the US Drought Monitor.

Parched after years of drought, the rainfall officially brought the dry spell to an end as floods inundated hundreds of homes, landslides buried roads, and high water levels threatened to burst dams.

Organic systems perform especially well during years of drought.

Environmental water policies that show greater concern for bait fish than for food production, combined with years of drought, have strangled area farmers to the point that much of the arable land is returning to its natural semi-arid state.

Weather Officials Say El Nino Is a Bust as California Enters 6th Year of Drought El Nino was a bust and water remains in short supply as California enters a sixth year of drought.

Since parts of the Amazon are now entering a second year of drought (possibly related to a persistent northward excursion of the ITCZ), the assumption in the Independent story (with the headline «One year to save the Amazon») was that trees will start dying forest - wide next year should the drought continue.

The bark beetle preys on California pines, feasting on thirsty, defenseless trees weakened from years of drought.

The Wildcrafts knew that Central Texas is all about years of drought followed by floods.

Over the last 10 - years, farmers in California have experienced the symptoms of climate change — less winter chill, crops blooming earlier, more heat waves and years of drought when the state baked in record temperatures.

Two years of drought seem broken by a deluge that would be the wrath of God were it not mercy.

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The priority for environmental water use in 2011 - 12 was to build on last year's flows that have contributed to restoration of the Goulburn River system, which followed ten or more years of drought.

Along the U.S. West Coast, the jet stream was shifted hundreds of kilometers north last winter, which had the effect of dousing the Pacific Northwest with extraordinary precipitation while Southern California experienced its fourth straight year of drought.

Faced with a fifth successive year of drought, California's state authorities cut off water supplies to farmers last week.

Federal drought experts found that parts of California descended into «exceptional» drought last week for the first time in 15 years of drought mapmaking by the federal government.

Dozens of fires are raging across California, Oregon and Washington, many triggered by lightening and spreading rapidly through parched forest and vegetation as the West Coast endures years of drought and warmer - than - average winters.

Throughout, Tiffany (an agricultural journalist living in Melbourne) explores the themes of man against nature, and the nature of man against man, but she also captures a big slice of social history, illustrating the incredible hardships of the time - the great depression, extensive years of drought, the memories of one war still present and the impending onset of another - stories that are at one level uniquely Australian but at another level, totally universal.

However, primitive Mayans were unfortunately believed to have slowly perished due to 200 continuous years of drought.

Five years of drought now, and near - total failure of November rains.

Ten - plus years of drought in territory that was past its carrying capacity led to massive dust storms, which reached the East Coast.

Colleague Will Steffen in 2015 forecast 80 years of drought there, just like fellow catastrophists predicted centuries of drought in California.

Abby Halperin, Myles Allen and Friederike Otto explain how serious the ongoing drought is in California, which has experienced four years of drought already, and how this experiment will help determine what effect, if any, climate change has had on how likely this drought is.

The rural town of Dara'a, hit by five prior years of drought and water scarcity with little relief from the government, was a focal point for the 2011 protests.

Drought experiments, where a roof is built under the forest canopy to reduce rainfall, show that most forest trees survive a single year's intense drought, in agreement with the ground observations in the 2005 drought, but can't persist with repeated years of drought.

I live in California where we're in our 4th year of drought.

Sacramento is also in its third year of drought, so clearly not an area with an overabundance of water, especially at this time.

Climate Change, Drought Fan Massive Sand Fire, Forcing 20,000 Californians to Flee / robertscribbler On Friday, amidst temperatures exceeding 100 degrees Fahrenheit, and at a time when California is now entering its fifth year of drought in a decade when seven out of the last ten years have been drought years, a rapidly growing and dangerous wildfire erupted in the hills north of Los Angeles.

Organic systems perform especially well during years of drought.

Northern California had a good season, with precipitation totals approaching normal after four years of drought conditions...

As California enters a potential fifth year of drought, the swimming pool demolition industry — a niche, to be sure — is thriving, operators say, with new companies entering the business to profit from Californians» concerns about water scarcity.

It only seems appropriate that the artist would begin working on her latest series of paintings during the sixth year of the drought and completed the works after the first rain drops began to fall in the winter.