Sentence examples for dry cities from inspiring English sources

For five straight days, scattered and sometimes heavy afternoon thundershowers have brought some relief to parched fields and dry cities.

Tonight's N.B.A. season openers are in relatively dry cities, and the next N.F.L. game won't be played until Thursday, in San Diego.

"Our work demonstrates 1C degree local heating of urban atmospheres in hot and dry cities due to air conditioning use at night time," said Francisco Salamanca, the report's lead author.

Even if squares play a key role as urban green spaces in dry cities, it is imperative to focus on the different variables defining their design since better decisions can guarantee and strengthen their environmental functions.

Other researchers have suggested that dry cities have a smaller heat island effect because they contain more water than the surrounding desert thanks to irrigation, or because the barren desert warms faster than the multilayered city, he said.

For example, in dry cities such as Phoenix, Arizona, and cities with mild summers such as Seattle, Washington, the heat index and air temperature are almost identical throughout the year.

In the hot, dry city of Lahore, Pakistan we compared the microclimates of two very different outdoor spaces.

It is a dry city too, with around 280mm of rainfall a year – less than half of London's total.

A flat, dry city with broad, tree-lined cycle lanes patrolled by protective traffic wardens was perfect for two wheels.

This book, by an opinionated former art critic, is hardly the dry city biography one might expect.

"We imagine that the city will and should get wet," said Bunge, "and that designing for a dry city is maybe madness.