Sentence examples for heavy droughts from inspiring English sources

The past couple of years have seen an increase in diseases borne by mosquitoes, widely occurring natural fires that destroy rangeland and alternating heavy droughts and floods necessitating maize imports.

It means we need to prepare for a future of heavy droughts and heavy rains.

Wohlleben: We had a heavy drought here.

Add in the idea that the NX might launch with some serious heavy-hitters (Zelda, possibly Mario and Pokémon) and you would have the success story of the summer, a time when there's usually a pretty heavy drought of releases, but a period where people aren't in school and able to play more video games than ever.

Maintenance of healthy grasslands is essential for efficient livestock production, yet projected climate change is likely to place a heavy drought stress burden on key grassland species, such as perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne).

"Heatwaves are easier to attribute than heavy rainfall, and drought is very difficult given evidence for large droughts in the past," said Gabriele Hegerl of the University of Edinburgh.

Extreme events, such as heavy precipitation, droughts, and more powerful tropical storms, are more common or happening in places that normally wouldn't see them.

Upstate New York faces some of the most variable and unpredictable conditions in the Eastern U.S. Most growing seasons include periods of heavy rainfall, droughts, cool spells, and heat waves.

The report said greenhouse gases were already responsible for a series of existing problems, including fewer cold days, hotter nights, intense heatwaves, floods and heavy rains, droughts and an increase in the strength of hurricanes and tropical storms.

And the heavy rains, droughts and other extreme weather fostered by El Nino over the last year are precisely what many scientists expect will also result from a predicted warming of the globe in the decades ahead.

Heavy rains, droughts, and extreme temperatures can mean no harvest, and no harvest means not only no health care, but a struggle to survive in already challenging circumstances.