And it was a bad drought year in 1976.

1976年是旱灾特别严重的一年。

Drought-stricken California has been drenched with torrential rains.

旱灾的加州已被暴雨淋湿。

I'm concerned about the drought in Kenya.

我很关注肯尼亚的旱灾。

A drought occurs when there hasn't been much rain for a long time.

长时间降雨较少，就出现旱灾。

And the peak of summer saw droughts of devastating intensity.

而盛夏巅峰又有异常严重的旱灾。

Every once in a while, some region suffers a drought.

有时候，某个地区旱灾。

The drought is affecting life in other ways as well.

次旱灾还在其他方着人们的生活。

" And where there were droughts, there might be floods."

“哪里有旱灾，哪里就可能有洪水。”

This is Tunde. He lost both his parents to this drought.

这是Tunde，他在这次旱灾中失去了双亲。

All of these dips below this line represent a severe drought.

这条线以下的所有下降都代表着严重的旱灾。

This graph shows Texas droughts over the past thousand years.

这张图表显示了过去一千年来的多次旱灾情况。

Global warming, they say, will cause droughts, floods and rising oceans.

他们称全球变暖将带来旱灾、洪灾和海平上升。

Meanwhile, the northern provinces are suffering drought. It that abnormal?

但是北方省份却遇了旱灾。那不是反常吗？

From too much water to too little, to pests, a lot can happen.

涝灾、旱灾，还有病虫害，存在各种不确定因素。

They occur naturally, but scientists say climate change is likely making them worse and more frequent.

旱灾不是人祸，但科学家说，气候变化很有可能导致旱灾形势恶化，而且出现得更加频繁。

The end of a drought, or of a plague, might call for a day of Thanksgiving.

旱灾或者瘟疫结束后，都需要庆祝感恩日。

And Texas has a long history of them.

可以看出德州的旱灾已经有很长的历史了。

" We've had dry stuff but not like this, " he said.

" 我们经历过旱灾，但没有像这样严重的" 。

This followed nearly three years of drought and the driest year on record in 2013.

过去三年已经发生了旱灾，2013年是创纪录的最干旱年。

They estimate this is the worst drought in California in over twelve hundred years.

他们估计这是加州一千二百多年来最严重的旱灾。