Sentence examples for extremes year from inspiring English sources

"If we can't get ready for today's extremes, year to year, decade to decade, we surely won't be ready for what's to come in the decades ahead," he said.

As a consequence of the increasing climatic extremes, years will probably occur, when the rate of the wind erosion or inland excess water hazard will increase.

Three test years, a dry year, a wet year, and an extreme year, were considered in the evaluation.

In the most extreme year, 2016, the coast retreated by an average of 72 feet.

Calculations show that in an extreme year with a "probable maximum flood," the spillway would be far too small.

"One extreme year in 10 can drive the system, and so long-term data gives us context.

The figure was later revised so it was slightly less "catastrophic" than the other extreme year in 2002-03, said Haeberli.

In this extreme year, several farmers who lacked irrigation equipment reported using anything from hoses and hand watering to sprayers and garden sprinklers.

Last year brought a dozen, at a cost of $52 billion, making it the most extreme year for weather since accurate record keeping began in the 19th century.

The year 2012 was also an extreme year for Greenland, with record melting across its entire surface flushing water into the ocean and accelerating sea level rise.

A number of climate factors have helped make this an extreme year for fires, including Portugal's driest summer in nearly a century and unusually high temperatures.