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How to use the word Basin in a Sentence?

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We anticipate that the 2023 Atlantic basin hurricane season will have slightly below-average activity, current neutral ENSO (El Niño Southern Oscillation) conditions look fairly likely to transition to El Niño this summer/fall. However, there is considerable uncertainty as to how strong an El Niño would be, if it does develop.

Phil Klotzbach

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In some cases, it may spur opposition or even litigation, instead, let us accelerate our discussions in the basin for a collaborative consensus-based outcome.

Tom Buschatzke

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think this is a step towards facilitating what I hope is some consensus coming out of the basin, but it also shows at the end of the day, the [Interior] Secretary will do what’s necessary and responsible to keep the system operating.

Tommy Beaudreau

Found on CNN
1 year ago

People in the upper basin are dealing with feet and feet and feet of snow. The snowpack is still increasing, it’s a completely different trend than we’ve seen the last three years. This is definitely going to make a huge difference in the short run. But people don’t want to go too far because they don’t want to go back to complacency.

Bill Hasencamp

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What you’re going to see in the coming months are additional announcements of deploying and awarding [federal] funding to communities throughout the basin in order to conserve water, you’re going to see a steady drumbeat of that.

Tommy Beaudreau

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Tropical cyclones can often form further west in the basin and remain stronger longer and so potential impacts to Hawaii are increased.

Jon Gottschalck

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The best solution to this crisis appears to be all seven basin states working together to find a solution that honors Tribal sovereignty, supports our agricultural producers, strengthens communities, and protects our most precious resource.

John Hickenlooper

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Tropical cyclone activity in the North Atlantic is more sensitive to El Niño influences than in any other ocean basin.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I swear, every time you turn around in the Willcox basin area, a new field is being bladed for a pecan or pistachio orchard.

Ash Dahlke

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It was written after one of the wettest years ever, so all this water was over-allocated to the lower basin states, as a result, there has been this tension with New Mexico, Wyoming, Utah -- the upper basin states where all that snowpack has been diminishing. That was the water table for the Western United States, and now it's gone.

Bill Weir

Found on CNN
1 year ago

President Biden needs to focus on addressing the humanitarian crisis his reckless leadership has created at the border, instead of attacking the jobs of hardworking Texans and oil production in the Permian Basin, the Lone Star State will not sit idly by as the federal government chooses to ignore the historic number of illegal crossings, human smuggling, and drug trafficking of deadly fentanyl from Mexico into the United States. Our government has no greater responsibility than to provide public safety to its citizens. Until President Biden decides to uphold immigration laws passed by Congress, the State of Texas will continue utilizing every tool available to secure the border and keep Texans – and Americans – safe.

Greg Abbott

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The strain of the monkeypox virus affecting patients in this outbreak is the West African clade and that is less severe than other known clades [such as] the Congo Basin clade, meaning that in historical outbreaks in Africa it has led to fewer deaths. analysis from many more patients will be needed to determine how long monkeypox has been circulating in the U.S. and elsewhere.

Jennifer McQuiston

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Later in the summer, July and August, if enhanced monsoon rainfall does occur that could provide at least a temporary relief to the drought across Arizona and New Mexico, unfortunately, the summer months are typically dry for California and the Great Basin, so we would expect drought conditions to persist for those areas through the summer.

Brad Pugh

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Because of climate change and the megadrought across the Western US and especially the Great Basin, there's no moisture in the soil anymore.

Andrew Church

Found on CNN
1 year ago

During this effort, CDFW will gather information and learn from scientific analysis to help inform and refine our bear management in the Lake Tahoe Basin. CDFW is not going to euthanize any bears that are trapped during this effort.

California Department

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We've never been in these conditions before, but with the partnerships that we've had in the basin for decades, there was always a concern that it could get there. And it was planned for and, unfortunately, that's what we're seeing now.

Reclamation Commissioner Camille Touton

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The vast majority of this water is used for irrigated agriculture across the basin ; there's just no way around the footprint of irrigated agriculture shrinking.

John Fleck

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Several years of below-normal snowpack across the Intermountain West mountains that supply the Colorado River Basin will continue to increase the water supply stress, which was already in jeopardy due to population increase, we recently saw this impact reservoir storage and lake levels in Lake Mead and Lake Powell. Within the last year, both Lake Powell and Lake Mead have observed their lowest reservoir storage levels in 30 years.

Chelsea Peters

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Overall, La Nina typically means less precipitation for the Sierra, Great Basin region, and the Mojave Desert, which is bad for the current drought status and the potential for another active fire season next year, however, the magnitude of the La Nina event will dictate the magnitude of impacts on the winter weather pattern. Considering the current state of ENSO is neutral, La Nina may be weak through at least the early part of the winter season.

Chelsea Peters

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We have all efforts in place to keep it out of the basin, but we do need to also be aware that is a possibility based on the way the fires have been burning. mother Nature has taken over and taken fires like the Dixie to places that I never thought was possible.

Thom Porter

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Everybody around and in that basin is doing all they can to use water as wisely as possible, we're seeing a lot of( water) saving this year, which is awesome, but Great Salt Lake is definitely suffering, and the only way we're going to get those lake levels up higher is a better water year for our snow pack.

Marcie McCartney

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Right now, we're looking at 105 to 110 in snake basin of Idaho and the Treasure Valley, we could be breaking all-time records in Boise on Tuesday and Wednesday of next week.

Korri Anderson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Currently our projections show that we're gon na end this calendar year around elevation 1,065 [ feet above sea level ] — that's about 10 feet below the level one shortage trigger, so we are anticipating the lower basin to be the first ever shortage condition in history.

Michael Bernardo

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Even a good monsoon will not alleviate much the large shortfalls in reservoir storage here in the Colorado River Basin, as stream flow is mostly dependent on winter snow pack in the upper portion of Colorado River Basin.

Christopher Castro

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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