drought

Example Sentences

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In the Sierra, where resorts have been pained by warm weather and a snow drought so far this season, it was far from clear whether there would be enough cold air to lower snow levels.

From Los Angeles Times

She said the sector had faced a sharp rise in costs and increasingly extreme weather, with severe drought this year.

From BBC

Deforestation is another key culprit, while severe droughts and dry winds fuelled by climate change are making the problem worse, he said.

From Barron's

"Devastating droughts and heatwaves are no longer rare. Some summers, it's not separate waves we face, but one long heatwave stretching from June through August. This is now the new normal," he said.

From BBC

For example, the drop in the price of olive oil is primarily the result of a recovery in harvests after some particularly bad years of heatwaves and drought in Greece and Turkey.

From BBC