dryness

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While blocking highs may not be happening more often, studies suggest that when they do occur the heat and dryness they bring are more intense than in the past.

From BBC • May 28, 2026

It typically lasts up to a year, peaking around year-end, and tends to bring dryness and heat to much of Asia and wet weather to various places, including the Gulf Coast.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

Some forecasters are predicting that Northern California will see an above-normal incidence of significant fires due to the dryness of the vegetation, but the picture for Southern California is less clear.

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026

On Rapa Nui, these waxes appear to reflect local rainfall and dryness more clearly than other indicators.

From Science Daily • Feb. 10, 2026

Instead, I spent some two hours a day in the translation of fragments from Greek and Latin; the texts being chosen for their convolution, recondite meaning, dryness, and insipidity.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson