Sentence examples for state of drought from inspiring English sources

New York's current state of drought emergency, the first since 1989, has placed severe restrictions on water use.

This sounds promising until one considers that those springs are in California, which has been in a state of drought for five years.

Despite some rain in the past few days, March was another dry month and the whole of the south-east and East Anglia and parts of Yorkshire are officially in a state of drought.

After such a long period of low rainfall, some species may not recover and could be lost from some rivers and wetlands if we don't act now". Some areas of the country have suffered their driest 18 months since records began, and almost all of the east and south-east of England is now officially in a state of drought.

Much of southern and eastern England has been officially in a state of drought since February.

The heavy rain comes as many areas are currently in a state of drought following two unusually dry winters.

In a May 1 speech to the League of Conservation voters, Oregon's Brown, also a Democrat, blamed climate change for her state's troubles: "The evidence is compelling: record low snowpack, the warmest winter since 1895, and seven Oregon counties in states of drought emergency before the end of April — and I predict more on the way".

Due to the great variability between leaves (different plants, different leaf traits, forms and ages) the changes in water content at an hour to hour scale, which are less than 2% change, are difficult to detect when a set of leaf data is statistically processed, especially in advanced states of drought.

The winter has also helped keep much of the state out of drought conditions that plagued California for years.

Over the past three weeks, continued rain and snow across California has, almost miraculously, lifted nearly half of the state out of drought.

A rainy October in Northern California has lifted about a quarter of the state out of drought conditions, the U.S. Drought Monitor reported Thursday.