Sentences with phrase «years of drought when»

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I think it was for a couple of reasons — partly when my dad was super sick and in the hospital for months, and at the same time we were having this years - long drought... and I just kept thinking «I just want a rainy day to sit inside and rest and recharge.»

In December of that year, Hull native Adrie Groeneweg, then 19, ended the town's hometown pizza drought when he opened the first Pizza Ranch location.

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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».

The problem is the WOB can not distinguish the years of financial drought from post 2013 (when we bought Ozil).

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.

Well when it does inevitably come to an end, I will be one of them cheering off the most successful manager Arsenal has EVER had, who changed our style from boring to beautiful, who carried us through the decade of financial drought and loss of key players while we built a new stadium, still cutting top 4 and giving us CL year after year.

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.

Yes, there were challenges associated with that move — debts to pay, players sold without proper replacements and the whole nine yards, but we still tried to compete, even though we fell short on several occasions and none hurts more than the 2006 Champions League final but nine years of a trophy drought changed to sheer elation when the Gunners won the FA Cup in 2014.

A heavy rainstorm left the field waterlogged in places in the second half but didn't dampen the spirits of the Ivorians, who ended a 23 - year drought when they clinched their second African title last month in Equatorial Guinea.

And when compared with a 1000 - year reconstruction of past droughts based on more than 1800 tree - ring chronologies collected across the continent, droughts forecast by nearly every one of those models are «unprecedented,» even if CO2 emissions are dramatically reduced, researchers say.

And while the drought that hit the region in 1986 stands as one of the worst of the past 350 years, the 20th century — when the agreements that govern the basin's water use were first established — was the wettest period in the region since the late 1600s.

When the current drought of 38 years without a total solar eclipse ends in 2017, it will mark the beginning of a new 38 - year period in which Americans will get to see five (in 2017, 2024, 2044, 2045 and 2052).

In hydrological data, there are series of 20 or 30 years, when we would need 100 years or more to see if there is a cycle of flooding and drought.»

According to USGS estimates, 153,000 metric tons of nutrients flowed down the rivers to the northern Gulf of Mexico in May, an increase of 94,900 metric tons over last year's 58,100 metric tons, when the region was suffering through drought.

This major hurricane drought surpassed the length of the eight - years from 1861 - 1868 when no major hurricane struck the United States» coast.

«From a policy perspective, we have to recognize that we have been trending toward drier conditions over the last 1,500 years and the warming in Nevada is only going to exacerbate that trend,» he said, noting that «warmer temperatures cause more soil moisture to evaporate so you amplify the effects of drought when climate is warming.

Its records show that in the first few months of this year, when the drought was at its worst, almost no rain fell.

Currently the same region is experiencing a period of drought, but the large agribusinesses continue to run vast farms by drawing on the Ogallala Aquifer - a huge, but not inexhaustible, water source created 15,000 years ago when the glaciers melted.

Last year, when we were in record drought and heat, we had the lowest intake of kittens to our city shelter in history.

We can handle the odd year like 2010 when drought reduced the Russian wheat crop by a quarter, flood wiped out a substantial portion of Pakistan's crop, and then Autsralia's that winter, but what about when it starts to happen year after year?

Do you realize that even if one model has all of the essential physics, very precise and accurate forcings, an exact or even close match of the actual climate trajectory (when El Ninos occur, when cool years occur in China, when droughts in the southwest USA occur, etc) is not going to happen?

Mr. deBuys compares the landscape today with the conditions of 1903, when a government naturalist named Vernon O. Bailey surveyed the area and its high - altitude forests, or the drought years of the 1950s, when Tony Hillerman, the writer whose novels brought the arid landscape to life, recorded the effects of what was regarded then as a pretty severe dry spell.

So when a report says droughts will become more frequent in Kenya because of climate change, ask how the authors worked that out, and how many years of data went into their calculations.

For instance, the peak years of the Texas drought in the 1950's took place when there was a period of strong La Nina, much like the current drought started last year during another strong La Nina.

When these past megadroughts are compared side - by - side with computer model projections of the 21st century, both the moderate and business - as - usual emissions scenarios are drier, and the risk of droughts lasting 30 years or longer increases significantly.

«When you're increasing the variability of the climate, one year you can have a flood and the next year you can have a drought.

Climatologist and lead author Colin Kelley notes in an article he cowrote for the International Peace Institute, «three of the four most severe multiyear droughts in Syria's observed record occurred during the last 30 years, when the rate of global carbon emissions has seen its largest increase.»

So imagine everyone's surprise when the state, which was in a drought for the last five years, saw weeks of precipitation and even some flooding during the winter months.

When people are told to stop watering their lawns because of a water shortage, they escalate (in the manner of sports hyperbole) to use the same word, drought, as is used for far more serious conditions, on a far vaster scale and lasting many years — such as the 1930s Dust Bowl or those three Little Ice Age droughts amidst good times in East Africa, lasting 30, 65, and 80 years.

These are normally the wettest months of the year — exactly when the state needs heavy rain and snow to make a dent in the drought.

«Warming in California has made it more probable that when a low precipitation year occurs, it occurs in warm conditions and is more likely to produce severe drought,» said lead study author Noah Diffenbaugh, an associate professor in the School of Earth Sciences at Stanford.

Since 1860, when adequate meteorological recording commenced, the most severe droughts have occurred commonly at intervals of 11 to 14 years.

Consequently, the next time a serious drought takes hold of some part of the world and the likes of Al Gore blame it on the «carbon footprints» of you and your family, ask them why just the opposite of what their hypothesis suggests actually occurred over the course of the 20th century, i.e., why, when the earth warmed - and at a rate and to a degree that they claim was unprecedented overthousands of years - the rate - of - occurrence of severe regional droughts actually declined.»

Actually, a warmer world means higher levels of humidity, less drought and a shrinking of deserts, as in the Sahara circa 4,000 - 6,000 years ago during the era known as the climatic optimum when temperatures averaged some 2 degrees higher than today's.

When major volcanic eruptions do not occur for decades to hundreds of years, the atmosphere can oxidize all pollutants, leading to a very thin atmosphere, global cooling and decadal drought.

When only looking at the number of drought years in each period (7, 11, 8, 7), it looks like there was more drought in the «cool» past, but looking at the percentage (17.5, 32, 57, 43 %), it looks like there is more drought in the «warm» present.

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.

Dr Lawrence Jackson, a co-author of the report, said: «Our work surprised us when we saw that the threat to food security was so imminent; the increased risk of severe droughts is only 10 years away for China and India.

el, luke did a good job taking on the faux concern of the weirdos at Deltoid and pointing out that there are real, disastrous consequences to AGW «remedies», unlike the imaginary consequences of AGW; in fact when luke goes to town he can even quell, or at least bemuse, even the most elitist of the AGW acolytes; for instance there was a thread at Taminos a couple of years ago when luke got going and absolutely paper - snowed them with masses of detail about the expanding drought conditions facing Australia under the yoke of AGW; unfortunately I have lost the link but I'm sure luke will oblige us.

Most 1 - SD drought years have occurred when conditions were both dry (precipitation anomaly < 0) and warm (temperature anomaly > 0), including 15 of 20 1 - SD drought years during 1896 — 2014 (Fig. 2A and Fig.

The production of wind energy also conserves water resources that would otherwise be used to cool thermal power plants, something that is important in years when the province is hit by drought.

Several years of drought conditions similar to those that happened around 1900 (When swum south of the Sobat connection to the Nile were dried, similar dryness were also observed in Bahr — El - Zaraf) are expected to prevail over Uganda and other Equatorial Lake countries at 2009 ± 2 - 3 years, 2021 ± 2 - 3 and perhaps 2033 ± 2 - 3 years.

Given the extreme wildfires the Western U.S. has suffered over the past several years as a result of extended droughts and higher temperatures, results of changes in our global climate system, it is easy to crack a smile when reviewing these credos.

It was rather amusing, a couple of years back, when we had the «unreliable» Danish wind power backstopping the «reliable» (but out - of - service) Finnish nuclear reactor as well as «reliable» (but drought - hobbled) Norwegian hydropower.

Dairy farmers say the new regulations will drive up costs when they're already struggling with five years of drought, low milk prices and rising labor costs.

If you live in places where droughts of several years occur repeatedly, it's a good idea to have good water management strategies, rather than letting all the excess water when it DOES rain flow back into the sea.

-- During the period 1941 - 1975, when global temperatures cooled, giving rise to concerns of a looming ice age, there were 11 years of moderate - to - severe drought.

-- During the period 1900 - 1940, when most of the 20th century's one - degree Fahrenheit temperature increase occurred, there were 7 years of moderate - to - severe drought.