Sentence examples for springs droughts from inspiring English sources

Because there are no rivers and few springs, droughts occur despite a mean annual rainfall of some 40 inches (1,000 mm).

Similarly, the cascade reservoir alleviated winter and spring droughts in the Hongshuihe River Basin.

Liaoning also suffers both from natural calamities, such as spring droughts, and from inefficient cultivation methods in many places, which result in lower agricultural yields.

Both these trends led to more frequent, intense, and continuous winter to spring droughts, which aggravate wildfires in Yunnan.

Grow of this potential hazard threat is a result of the increasing severity of continuous, large-scale winter to spring droughts in the region.

A small snowpack often leads to spring droughts in the Midwest and summer water shortages in the West as well as a longer wildfire season in the latter because the soil dries out earlier than usual.

Warmer winters and spring droughts appear to amplify the spread of West Nile virus, which infects humans, horses, and birds.

Autumn and spring droughts were widespread with a 40-day dry spell starting in April in the south.

Tropical Storm Isaac in August destroyed farms in the north, preceded by a spring drought that devastated farms there.

The New Yorker, February 26 , 1938P. 20 Officer Corn-Officer Cobb Baffled telephone opertor D.W. Wheeler-Henry Fender (Automobile accident) Sprinkle (Town where light rainfall broke spring drought) Donald Dill-JAutomobilee (accidentle accident) J.F.

Recently the rains have come inconsistently, arriving up to several weeks later meaning, in some years, a prolonged spring drought that imperils the first harvest.