Sentences with phrase «years of drought followed»

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«Malawi has shown progress in achieving macroeconomic stabilization following two years of drought, with a rebound in growth and inflation reduced to single...

This could result in higher rates for crop insurance, which could be detrimental to Oklahoma farmers as this farming season has already seen high levels of precipitation following a five - year drought.

Rural Funds Group's investments in cattle and cotton follows a decrease in demand for almond plantings (which still account for almost half of its portfolio by value) after California, the world's biggest almond growing region, lifted production following many years of drought.

«We have made available $ 250 million in concessional loans funding nationally this financial year to assist farmers to rebuild their businesses following drought and retrospective farmgate milk price cuts, part of a $ 2.5 billion, 10 — year commitment to concessional loans.

The address captured what some advocates had hoped to hear from Obama following the bruising impacts of widespread disasters last year, including a drought that sizzled 60 percent of the nation and damages from Superstorm Sandy exceeding $ 50 billion.

«That such a strong drought should follow the «One in 100 - year» drought of 2005 only five years afterwards in 2010 is exceptional, and of concern,» said Meir, an expert in tropical forests.

The study, published Thursday in the journal Science by a team of by researchers at the University of Utah and Princeton University, shows that the world's forests take an average of between two and four years to return to their normal growth and carbon dioxide absorption rate following a severe drought — a finding that has significant climate implications.

There are more local friendship - destroyers launching in 2013's eighth month than you can shake a pair of controllers at, which comes as quite a lovely lump sum following the relative drought of such titles throughout the first half of the year.

The following three short pieces will not make a convincing scientific argument that Southern Australia's drought is being driven by a warming planet but municipal governments are facing the grim reality their water supplies could run out by the end of next year if significant rainfall does not occur.

«We're going to be see more of these periods of intense droughts followed by intense rain,» which is the situation predicted for East Africa this 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.

«Even though California historically has periods of dry and wet years, there isn't an analog for climate extremes like the ones we've observed in recent years, such as those record - breaking prolonged periods of drought following by periods of intense precipitation pulses that cause flooding,» Woodburn said.

So some parts of the world are likely to experience blazing drought, followed by catastrophic floods, while across the ocean, other nations will have torrential rain and then unseasonal drought, every 13 years or so.

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.

They gathered measurements across nearly 100 locations and observed that, while both severe droughts killed trees, the second of the two slowed the growth rates of the survivors in the years that followed.

In much of France and Switzerland, the best years are traditionally those with abundant spring rains followed by an exceptionally hot summer and late - season drought.

In much of France and Switzerland, the best wine years are traditionally those with abundant spring rains followed by an exceptionally hot summer and late - season drought.

For instance, the summer of 2002 in Europe brought widespread floods but was followed a year later in 2003 by record - breaking heat waves and drought.

Water restrictions have been brought in following the imposition of a drought emergency in January last year.

Although Syria experienced an extreme drought in the 4 years prior to the conflict, other countries in the wider region, Tunisia, Libya, Yemen, Eritrea, had different climatic conditions before unrest started [although of course global markets also play a role, and there too climate connections exist, like increased food prices following the Russian drought of 2010].

The same thing happened the following year... 1431: following a blotting out of the sky, and pillars of fire, there was a drought — «the earth and the bogs smoldered, there was no clear sky for 6 weeks, nobody saw the sun, fishes, animals and birds died of the smoke.

Confirmed: 2011 Was Texas» Driest Year On Record & The Second Hottest Perhaps it doesn't need official confirming, especially for TreeHugger readers who've been following our diligent coverage of all the grim announcements about the state of Texas» drought, but the National Weather Service has officially stated that 2011 was the driest year on record for TeYear On Record & The Second Hottest Perhaps it doesn't need official confirming, especially for TreeHugger readers who've been following our diligent coverage of all the grim announcements about the state of Texas» drought, but the National Weather Service has officially stated that 2011 was the driest year on record for Teyear on record for Texas.

«One possible explanation is that these plants rapidly invest in the production of new structures but with a cost of non-structural carbon reserves that could make them vulnerable to stressful conditions (i.e. drought events) in the following year,» wrote Vargas in his paper in Environmental Research Letters (ERL).

In the years following the establishment of the Western Division, the pastoral industry in the region became unprofitable due to frequent periods of drought, sandstorms, rabbit plagues and the destruction of vegetation caused by over grazing.