In the absence of clouds, the potent May sun baked the Texas landscape, promoting the droughty conditions that plague the region.
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When this was followed by pear thrips, canker worms, and a droughty summer, maples and some other trees started dying.
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Regulated water draining off the lake contributed to the rise of the formerly droughty and quaggy Konya Plain into a " granary ".
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The fog is also vital for the growth of the redwoods as they use moisture from the fog during droughty seasons, in particular the dry summer.
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Beside the droughty periods typical for the region, the second reason for the underpopulation of the Black Sea northern shores is the vicinity of the Tatars.
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Millets are not only adapted to poor, droughty, and infertile soils, but they are also more reliable under these conditions than most other grain crops.
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The bay is sheltered by the low, grassy hills of Droughty Point to the north-west and the spit of South Arm and Opossum Bay to the southwest.
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The administrative borders of Gerakas enclose parts of the Stavros settlement around the Army's Hill, as well as the droughty fields of the southern hills of Penteli up to the marble workshops and the scattered industries.
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"This suggests we may be moving into an increasingly droughty period as the world warms, " Cook said . " And it doesn't matter if it's natural warming or caused by greenhouse gases ."
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On top of the ridge, the soils are generally thin, highly acidic, low in nutrients, and droughty, but in depressions and other areas where water is trapped by the bedrock or till, there are interspersed lakes and wetland areas.
