A: I was trying to understand the large-scale mechanisms that had caused a drought in Afghanistan from 1999 to 2001.
"It does mean that our dry pattern of weather that settled in in mid-spring and caused a drought in the summer is over and has changed to a normal or wetter-than-normal pattern," he said.
A supply shock, perhaps caused by a drought in Brazil or a confrontation in the Persian Gulf, may send the price of orange juice or oil soaring.
In 2005 a strong El Nino caused a dramatic drought in the Amazon.
Several lines of evidence led to a theory that climate change caused a severe drought in the region from 1276 to 1299, forcing these agriculture-dependent cultures to move on.
For example, a drought in 2002 caused the agricultural sector to contract by 7.2% in real terms, causing GDP growth on an output basis to slow from 5.8% to 3.8% during the 2002/03 April-March fiscal yearar. April-March fiscal year
The legend of the one-horned wizard who traps the dragon gods of rain and causes a searing drought originated in India and was later transmitted by the Chinese to Japan, where it is dramatized in Noh (Ikkaku sennin ["The One-Horned Wizard"]) and in Kabuki (Narukami [Saint Narukami and the God Fudō]).
The American company withdrew from the deal, vaunted at the time as an exemplary privatisation, due to a drought in orders caused in part by the euro-zone crisis.
The UN resident coordinator for North Korea, Ghulam Isaczai, warned Reuters in May that a drought in 2014, caused by the lowest rainfall in 30 years, meant a crisis was imminent.
The extreme heatwave, which caused a severe drought and wildfires in Russia, might be over, but both officials and consumers are now busy calculating its cost and trying to work out its consequences.
