Sentence examples for most severe drought from inspiring English sources

(5) Northwest China was the most severe drought region nationwide in terms of meteorological drought frequency, duration, and severity.

In 2014, the city suffered its most severe drought since 1930.

The country is facing its most severe drought in more than 25 years.

In Syria, the most severe drought in the country's recorded history forms the backdrop of a tragic civil war.

São Paulo is experiencing its most severe drought in decades, after three years of below-average rainfall.

The upshot was that "wheat will avoid the most severe drought stress by maturing early," the paper said.

Rain in the drought-stricken Golden State is welcomed by farmers, who have for several years been enduring one of the most severe droughts on record.

To justify all this, the President cited recent national disasters, like Hurricane Sandy, the worst wildfires in recorded history, and the most severe droughts since the Dust Bowl.

In Central America, one of the most severe droughts on record has led to 3.5 million people in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador needing food aid, said the WFP.

NBC has suffered through one of the most severe droughts in prime time of any network in the last 20 years.

Increasing temperatures, one of the longest and most severe droughts in 50 years and the steady drying up of farmland as rainfall diminishes have been identified as factors in the political destabilisation of Syria.