Sentences with phrase «years of drought seem»

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

Not exact matches

Seems like 5 years of a trophy drought has driven some of us mentally mad and itchingly impatient.

«So it's going to take up to 20 years to implement a sustainable groundwater management plan,» she said, «and if you are overdrafting today and you are in the middle of a severe drought, of course it doesn't seem like this is fast enough, but it is complicated.»

California is in a record breaking four - year drought, so using water to generate fuel seems counter intuitive; however, a little water splitting goes a long way in terms of energy production, said Chengxiang Xiang, co-leader of JCAP's prototyping and scale - up project.

With another big film, Rebel in the Rye (directed and written by Danny Strong and co-starring Nicholas Hoult) coming to theaters this fall, a recent wrap on The Year of Spectacular Men (written by her sister Madelyn Deutch and directed by their mother), and production starting on the Netflix romantic comedy Set It Up, a work drought does not seem to be in Zoey's future.

Here in Latin America, the Amazon rain forest seems to be drying at an alarming rate, Sao Paulo is beset by drought, and Buenos Aires could soon see a record amount of rainfall this year, according to Argentinian author and journalist Martin De Ambrosio.

It may seem paradoxical to talk of the relative stability of climate in the last 8,000 years, and then mention the devastation caused by decades - long droughts and El Niños, but the latter are truly small stuff compared to the abrupt climate flips with their synchronous worldwide effects.

A streak of freak floods in the US, a deadly heat - wave across Central Russia, record drought in the Amazon, deadly floods in Colombia and Venezuela, record highs all over the globe, and a catastrophic flood in Pakistan that affected 20 million people: this is the year when the impacts of climate change no longer appeared hazily in an abstract future, but seemed to be knocking on our collective doorstep.

Thirty years to establish a climate state seems a long time, as within that period there may be notable shifts to a number of different prevailing patterns of cold / warmth / wet or drought that, on a human scale affects agriculture and horticulture by impacting on what crops may be grown successfully, may affect the tourism season, may cause a consumer to use more or less energy in their home, and also impact on nature by affecting the populations of wild life and vegetation.

Given that Phoenix, which sits in the middle of a desert, has been suffering from a series of droughts over the last 11 years (never mind that the water levels in its rivers recently dipped to near - record lows), it seems as though it could find better uses for its scarce water supplies

Then its third paragraph seems to imply we can begin to see some kind of ominous pattern from this cumulative experience, with its money quote being, «After a few years of big storms, bizarrely warm winters and drought warnings, we no longer want nice weather.