Natural hazards include late spring droughts which often are followed by severe flooding.

Navigation was difficult, as the river suffered from fierce currents, shallows, floods in spring and early summer when the ice was melting, and droughts in late summer.

In the late 1990s, the collective farming system collapsed under the strain of droughts.

During the late 1880s, a series of droughts devastated the West.

He has covered every major weather event from the droughts of the late 1980s to the tornado outbreak in April 2011.

It has been shown that historical droughts in this region were four times drier than that of the late 1970s drought.

Since the late 1340s, people in the countryside suffered from frequent natural disasters ; droughts, floods and the ensuing famines.

In the late 19th century, the island was briefly used as a leper colony island, although that enterprise was eventually abandoned because of the frequent droughts, and the difficulty of reliably landing supplies on the island.

There has been an approximately decade long cycle of recurrent droughts in this part of east Africa since earlier in the 20th century and by the late 1970s signs of intensifying drought began to appear.

As disruptive as the droughts of the late 20th century were, evidence of past droughts recorded in Ghanaian lake sediments suggest that multi-decadal megadroughts were common in West Africa over the past 3, 000 years and that several droughts lasted far longer and were far more severe.

Archeologists speculate that a series of severe droughts in the late 13th century forced the Hopi to abandon several smaller villages in the region and consolidate within a few population centers.

Famine followed severe droughts in the 1910s, the 1940s, and the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, although a partial recovery occurred from 1975-80.

ECMWF's monthly and seasonal forecasts provide early predictions of events such as heat waves, cold spells and droughts, as well as their impacts on sectors such as agriculture, energy and health.

The great Sahel droughts of the early 1970s caused massive problems in a country where

In the early years, droughts and disease caused widespread problems, but the situation soon improved.

In 1904, the Bureau of Reclamation ( then the Reclamation Service ) first became interested in creating such a water project, but did not get far involved until a series of droughts and related disasters occurred in the early 1920s.

When the country suffered droughts in the early 1990s, bureaucratic inertia and reluctance to admit failure led to delays in requests for foreign aid and the deaths of millions from the famine.

Envisioned as early as 1919 because of frequent floods and droughts troubling California's largest agricultural region, the Central Valley, the dam was first authorized in the 1930s as a state undertaking.

A majority of the population of Mauritania depends on agriculture and livestock for a livelihood, even though most of the nomads and many subsistence farmers were forced into the cities by recurrent droughts in the 1970s and 1980s.

A central reason as to why the famine ( one of the largest seen in the country ) is thought to have occurred is that Ethiopia ( and the surrounding Horn ) was still recovering from the droughts which occurred in the mid-late 1970s.

In the 1970s and 1980s, LWR's expanded its work into Africa, as civil wars and droughts hit countries there.

We could reasonably presume that transformation of Hamoun into arid country, like their surrounding areas, was mainly caused by irrigated agriculture expansion since 1970s ( represent as bright red patches on satellite images, mainly wheat and barley ), coupled with one of the worst droughts ever witnessed in Central Asia in 1999-2001 period.

In 1997, droughts caused by the El Niño weather pattern wreaked havoc on Papua New Guinea's coffee, cocoa, and coconut production, the mainstays of the agricultural-based economy and major sources of export earnings.

Examples of weather disasters include blizzards, cyclones, droughts, hailstorms, heat waves, hurricanes, floods ( caused by rain ) and tornadoes.

This caused crop failures in Europe and may have caused droughts in India.

In France a sequence of extremes included a surplus harvest in 1785 that caused poverty for rural workers, accompanied by droughts and bad winters and summers, including a violent hailstorm in 1788 that destroyed crops.

During the next years, the economic problems left over from the Military Government persisted, worsened by an occurrence of the " El Niño " weather phenomenon in 1982 – 83, which caused widespread flooding in some parts of the country, severe droughts in others, and sharply reduced the schools of ocean fish that are one of the country's major resources.

The growing movement in Telangana to secede from Andhra Pradesh, as well as southern India's long droughts have caused several movements to coalesce around Rayalaseema's grievances.

The food obtained from trading helped offset shortages caused by droughts and famines.

Maryborough ended of one of the longest droughts on record during the 2010 / 2011 summer when it experience some of the highest rainfall on recorded which caused flooding throughout the local area.

Although the present area of the lake's open water is, recent droughts and extraction of water from the Awash for irrigation has caused the water level of the lake to fall five meters.

Its basic objective was to decrease the loss of life, property destruction and social and economic disruption caused by natural disasters, such as earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, landslides, volcanic eruptions, droughts, locust infestations, and other disasters of natural origin.

This is done to keep Lake Peachtree full whenever there is a lack of rain and still allow for recreational use of the lake during droughts.

However, even with Lake Mead's mammoth storage capacity, it was not able to handle the worst floods or droughts, and was filling with sediment at a rate that would render it useless in a few hundred years.

However, the rainfall of the basin, as with all of the Lake Eyre Basin, is exceedingly erratic and catastrophic droughts and floods tend to be the normal state of affairs throughout this region.

Meanwhile, Lake Okeechobee — which typically rises and falls seasonally, and is affected by the frequent flooding and droughts associate with the Florida climate — was inundated despite Disston's canals, and the only canal out of the lake that Disston actually completed resulted in the Caloosahatchee River flooding the surrounding area.

This is nearly as large as the basin of Lake Lanier ( Atlanta's biggest water source ), but since the Allatoona is smaller, it drains and fills more rapidly than Lanier during droughts and floods.

When droughts occur in Afghanistan, or the water in watersheds that support Lake Hāmūn is drawn down by other natural or human-induced reasons, the end result is a dry lake bed in Iran.

Serious droughts occur about once every eight years, especially in the rice-producing southwestern part of the country.

The city, which was once marked by the recurring droughts and famines is now an agriculturally developed city due to the establishment of Haryana Agricultural University.

Serious droughts occur once or twice a decade.