Sentence examples for weather drought from inspiring English sources

Like other types of extreme weather, drought is experienced when circulation patterns get 'stuck' in one formation, or push outside their normal bounds of variation.

Extreme weather, drought and flooding can disrupt production capacity and affect supply chains for a whole range of businesses.

Instead, it was a year of extreme weather: drought and heat waves in the United States; record rainfall in the United Kingdom; unusually heavy rains in Kenya, Somalia, Japan, and Australia; drought in Spain; floods in China.

As global average temperatures rise due to greenhouse gas emissions, the effects on the planet, such as melting ice caps, extreme weather, drought and rising sea levels, will threaten populations and livelihoods, said the report conducted by humanitarian organisation DARA.

Fire danger in a wildland setting varies with weather conditions: drought, heat, and wind participate in drying out the timber or other fuel, making it easier to ignite.

We're clearly not going to be living better with extreme weather, droughts and floods.

A few are, but most seem scuppered by extreme weather – droughts, summer rains and warm winters.

This is viewed as crucial, because of scientific advice that warming above 2C is likely to lead to consequences - extreme weather, droughts, floods and sea level rises - that will become catastrophic and irreversible.

The world is heating up under the pressure of rising greenhouse gas emissions, and the consequences will be dire: an increase in extreme weather, droughts, floods, a loss of agricultural productivity, people living precarious lives pushed closer to the brink.

We're already seeing the consequences of climate change in the form of extreme weather, droughts and melting ice caps.

And many communities of color stand to suffer most from the destruction wrought by extreme weather, droughts, economic disorder related to the climate crisis ― particularly in Florida, which is ground zero for intensifying hurricanes and alarming rises in sea levels.