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With hydropower accounting for 80 percent of production as of 2024, supply dwindles in the dry season from March to August.

From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026

Later in the month, areas of high pressure may have more influence on the weather which would mean longer dry interludes and the chance of above-average daytime temperatures.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

Every year, Pomo nations would gather at the south end of the lake to catch and dry the fish that would sustain them throughout the year, Simon said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

In the warm, dry spring a glut of glorious foundresses – new queens – emerged from hibernation to start their nests alone, carrying out all the nest building, egg laying, foraging and brood rearing.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026

Her mother would pick the leaves and dry and roast them to make tea.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

"When the water is drained, the peat dries and becomes flammable."

From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026

And the Hawk fire is the latest example of the growing threat of destructive urban conflagrations in these zones as the planet warms, vegetation dries out and wildfires become more destructive.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

By raising average temperatures, it makes extreme heat more likely and, when rain fails, increases evaporation and dries soils faster.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

But they are packaged into different tranches in order of who will get repaid first if the money dries up.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

The water keeps the leaf wet, and although the top dries up and burns down to the water level, that’s as far as the burning goes.

From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

That really divided Whigs between drys and wets.

From Slate ● Apr. 5, 2017

So who are the other Washington VIPs queuing up for blow drys, yoga, personal training and makeup application in the comfort of their open concept living rooms?

From Washington Post ● Jan. 28, 2015

And while profits from cuts, colouring and blow drys have remained static, in 2012 the salon's hair extension business has grown 60% year on year.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 28, 2012

But she nonetheless tells her very fellow drys that she can secure Nucky’s help in doing away with these neighborhood stashes.

From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2010

As the river of that name that runs away from itself when it rains and drys up when it is clear, is so uncertain, the name Allegheny does not appeal to the masses.

From Watch Yourself Go By by Ben W. Warden

"The strong El Niño is making the dry season drier over the fire-prone parts of the country and exacerbating burning -- just as we anticipated it would," he said.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026

Southern and southwestern areas were even drier, receiving less than 20 percent of normal rainfall.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026

Most areas will still see some drier and sunnier moments through the three days, with parts of north and west Scotland perhaps seeing very little rainfall at all.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

A zone of wet weather will move eastwards across England and Wales on Saturday, although drier and brighter conditions may spread from the west later.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

And dates—which are like prunes, but drier and sweeter.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz

Precipitation was below average, ranking in the driest third on record for both August and for the June-August period, and drought covered nearly 60 percent of the contiguous US by September 1.

From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026

With this summer being the hottest and one of the driest on record, lakes and rivers across the country have been running low.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

July’s 6.5 millimeters of rain in England, about 0.25 inches, was the lowest since records began in 1836 and less than half the next driest July—in 1911.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

In other research, scientists found that the last quarter-century has probably been the driest in 1,200 years in Western North America, and that global warming is responsible for about 40% of the drought’s severity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

Without looking in his direction I continued speaking to the class in the driest of tones.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

The June to August season was defined by severe, back-to-back heatwaves that shut schools, dried up rivers and primed the land for devastating wildfires.

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

“Immediately noticeable were the sagging eaves, the multitude of leaks from the roof, the dried out, splintered mahogany and the battered exterior woodwork, which had suffered seven decades of winds from the Sound.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026

I use the zest of a whole lemon rather than its juice — lots of brightness, no unnecessary liquid — plus dried thyme, garlic, onion and enough black pepper to make itself known.

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026

Instead of racing through trees and vegetation, these fires smolder through dried wetland soils and large deposits of peat, often continuing underground at relatively low temperatures.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026

I described the hinge that never quite fastened, the edges that didn’t line up, and the paint that dried a little bumpy—so many imperfections that usually would have bugged me but didn’t.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

If it gets hotter outside and more humid outside, which keeps the sweat from drying off our body, our body has to work harder to maintain that stable temperature, he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

The drying can become even more pronounced when El Niño occurs alongside a positive phase of the Indian Ocean Dipole, which was also underway.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026

Warming temperatures risk drying up the reservoirs necessary to run the world’s power plants.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

There are "signs of struggle" among the plants and trees near the drying pond, Herd said.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026

The styling and drying process was extremely complicated—Mari wrapped individual strands of hair around the handle of a comb and then used a hairdryer with a diffuser attachment on each individual curl.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison