Sentences with phrase «years of drought now»

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

Not exact matches

According to the most recent federal forecast, about 48 % of the contiguous U.S. is now experiencing moderate to exceptional drought, down from a high of 60 % at the beginning of the year.

After all the frenetic deal - making of the past few years, Canada's oilpatch is now finding itself in the grip of an unaccustomed drought of mergers and acquisitions.

Scattered thunderstorms in the Rockies and parts of the Southwest are doing little to ease the hardships caused by the severe drought, now going on almost three years in some states.

Above - normal rainfall now predicted for California Weather officials on Monday updated a rain outlook for the month of December, saying now that there will be above - normal rainfall moving toward the New Year that will have a significant effect on the drought outlook...

After a long trophy drought, Arsenal have now won two FA Cups in successive seasons, and have avoided the Champions League Qualifying round for next year, but when Rosicky was asked what he thought about the season just past instead of saying how well the club did he turned the conversation back to his «frustration».

Several of the Huskers» contemporary powerhouses have gone through similar droughts: Tennessee hasn't finished the year in the AP top 10 in the last 16 seasons; Miami has gone 14 years without a top 10; Texas is now up to eight.

If Arsenal had not managed to break our scoring drought and bag all three points away to Bournemouth today, it could well have been seen as the end of our own challenge, but as it happens the pressure and expectation that the Gunners have been feeling since going two points clear at the start of the year could now be switched to the shoulders of the Leicester players and manager.

did I asked for that... Didn't you get me when I said we are 11 yrs without EPL title never mind the CL... what joy do you find in a drought... You know that FA are not up to the level of EPL and CL... Your Wenger use to play the kids in FA... and when he felt the pressure of going all these years without a single trophy he started to play his first team in FA cup to get in the comfort zone that you are giving him now...

I have been impressed with Wenger lately, AND TRUST ME, I wanted him out a couple years back... But I think it was staring us all in the face and now it's clear to see; our drought and selling of our best players started when we spent half a billion on our STADIUM... and now that, that's paid we are building and buying WorldClass players.

It may be interesting to Wenger now, but for the last two years Arsenal fans have been screaming at the boss to invest in a top - class striker, especially when Olivier Giroud was going through one of his drought periods.

Complete sedimentary samples now show a continuous record of the last 3000 years, showing how droughts and wet seasons may have influenced the island's population.

Summer rainfall in one of the world's most drought - prone regions can now be predicted months or years in advance, climate scientists at the Met Office and the University of Exeter say.

Fact # 1: Carbon Dioxide is a Heat - Trapping Gas Fact # 2: We Are Adding More Carbon Dioxide to the Atmosphere All the Time Fact # 3: Temperatures are Rising Fact # 4: Sea Level is Rising Fact # 5: Climate Change Can be Natural, but What's Happening Now Can't be Explained by Natural Forces Fact # 6: The Terms «Global Warming» and «Climate Change» Are Almost Interchangeable Fact # 7: We Can Already See The Effects of Climate Change Fact # 8: Large Regions of The World Are Seeing a Significant Increase In Extreme Weather Events, Including Torrential Rainstorms, Heat Waves And Droughts Fact # 9: Frost and Snowstorms Will Still Happen in a Warmer World Fact # 10: Global Warming is a Long - Term Trend; It Doesn't Mean Next Year Will Always Be Warmer Than This Year

Scientists aren't certain whether the now three - year - long drought is a direct result of climate change.

As part of the study, Bloom, now an assistant professor at Illinois State University, developed a mathematical model to reconstruct drought over thousands of years using diatoms.

After years of drought, much of the state is now experiencing one of its wettest years on record.

March 7, 2017 • After five years of historic drought, the unprecedented amount of snow and rain falling now in California is a true test to some of the country's oldest infrastructure.

While Zimmer had a drought of nominations between «Gladiator» and «Sherlock Holmes» last year, he is now back in the running and there is no doubt that this film's sense of awe was tremendously improved by its score.

There are some physics - based theories regarding the nature of climate change yes, but the ONLY way to test them is on the basis of the sort of evidence that climate scientists have been collecting for many years now, on, for example, global temperatures, ocean temperatures, sea level, frequency of drought, hurricanes, rainstorms, etc..

On the contrary, roughly 80 percent of HOT is devoted to on - the - ground reporting that focuses on solutions — not just the relatively well known options for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and otherwise limiting global warming, but especially the related but much less recognized imperative of preparing our societies for the many significant climate impacts (e.g., stronger storms, deeper droughts, harsher heat waves, etc.,) that, alas, are now unavoidable over the years ahead.

Water Conservation Efforts Must Expand in Fifth Year of Drought Op - Ed by Peter Gleick 3.2.16 - A fifth year of California drought and continued water challenges now appear unavoidable, even with new storms on the horiYear of Drought Op - Ed by Peter Gleick 3.2.16 - A fifth year of California drought and continued water challenges now appear unavoidable, even with new storms on the horiyear of California drought and continued water challenges now appear unavoidable, even with new storms on the horizon.

The snow cover is but the latest in a long line of troubling signs showing that the drought the Golden State has been mired in for more than three years now is no ordinary beast.

Almost every year now, there is news of crippling heat and drought.

The other half of the problem is that we are experiencing the worst drought for at least 1000 years — over 10 years now.

Human warming and a climate change induced blocking pattern have withered California under record drought conditions for the better part of three years now.

After six years of «perpetual» drought, California is now deluged with the highest precipitation for January and February on human record (Sacbee2017b).

The present drought is now in its fourth year, and is one of the longest consecutive periods during which conditions are severely dry and severely warm.

Now that researchers are illuminating the mechanisms of drought damage, Anderegg believes these legacy effects could be incorporated into climate models within a year or two — an important step if climate models are to truly capture the effect of drought on the carbon cycle.

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170525085109.htm Summer rainfall in one of the world's most drought - prone regions can now be predicted months or years in advance, climate scientists at the Met Office and the University of Exeter say.

The state is now entering its fourth year of severe drought conditions, with an estimated economic impact approaching $ 2 billion, according to a University of California, Davis report.

Oh, and don't look now, but Southern California is currently on fire has had an extremely dry start to its wet season, raising the specter of a return to drought just a year after one of the worst droughts in state history.

Now in the fifth year of an epic drought, Californians have explored ways to save water and wring it out of typical and atypical sources.

Those dangers are now being dramatically demonstrated around the globe: drought in the Marshall Islands in the Pacific, which has forced the government there to issue a state of emergency warning; France observed its warmest winter since records began; while the sea ice that has formed in the Arctic this winter is about a million square kilometres less than its average for this time of year.

SACRAMENTO — As every Californian knows by now, our state is in the fifth year of a drought, and this persistent imbalance of supply and demand in our water supply is likely the new norm.

so forget about those «far worse droughts» over a thousand years ago and ponder more on what will happen to you now... or to use a metaphor of opposite to drought, as Bill Cosby famously said for Noah..

I take it from your desire to return to the issue of deceptive temp records that you conced that droughts, aquifer over use, or the history of drought / flooding rain cycles in Australia are not caused by CO2, I also take it that you now understand that temperatures worldwide have not actually risen much over the ~ 150 years of current interest.

Sea levels are rising (ask the Mayor of Miami who has spent tax monies to raise road levels), we've had 15 of the hottest years eve measured, more precipitation is coming down in heavy doses (think Houston), we're seeing more floods and drought than ever before (consistent with predictions), the oceans are measuring warmer, lake ice in North America is thawing sooner (where it happens in northern states and Canada), most glaciers are shrinking, early spring snowpacks out west have declined since the 1950's, growing seasons are longer throughout the plains, bird wintering ranges have moved north, leaf and bloom dates recorded by Thoreau in Walden have shifted in that area, insect populations that used to have one egg - larva - adult cycle in the summer now have two, the list goes on and on.

Indeed, it is now believed that even less rain fell over the 5.3 million square kilometres of the Amazon in 2010, potentially making last year's drought the worst on record.

The California drought is so severe that most of the state is now running one to two years behind on rainfall totals.

A research team in the US reports in the journal Ecological Applications that trees that survived severe drought in the US southeast 10 years ago are now dying — because of the long - ended drought.

The number of drought months per year will also increase significantly in Southern Europe: «In the event of a three - degree warming, we assume there will be 5.6 drought months per year; up to now, the number has been 2.1 months.

With the ongoing Texas drought now setting classified as the worst one - year drought on record there, OnEarth has a really good summary of the situation, the factors contributing to it.

Fact # 1: Carbon Dioxide is a Heat - Trapping Gas Fact # 2: We Are Adding More Carbon Dioxide to the Atmosphere All the Time Fact # 3: Temperatures are Rising Fact # 4: Sea Level is Rising Fact # 5: Climate Change Can be Natural, but What's Happening Now Can't be Explained by Natural Forces Fact # 6: The Terms «Global Warming» and «Climate Change» Are Almost Interchangeable Fact # 7: We Can Already See The Effects of Climate Change Fact # 8: Large Regions of The World Are Seeing a Significant Increase In Extreme Weather Events, Including Torrential Rainstorms, Heat Waves And Droughts Fact # 9: Frost and Snowstorms Will Still Happen in a Warmer World Fact # 10: Global Warming is a Long - Term Trend; It Doesn't Mean Next Year Will Always Be Warmer Than This Year

Now «slight reduction» is being spun to mean multiple years of drought instead of a single year of drought.

As a result, our planet is now locked into at least 50 more years of rising temperatures and the climate effects they unleash — longer droughts, stronger storms, harsher heat waves, rising sea levels.