It was also the driest summer the vineyards had seen since the iconic vintage of 1961.
Stretching for 600 miles south of the Peruvian border, it is the driest place on earth.
FORBES: Andrew Harper's 2013 Hideaway of the Year: Awasi, Chile
Ice covers 99.5% of Antarctica, a place known for being the coldest, driest, windiest and highest continent on Earth.
At the time, Scottish Water said it followed the driest first six months of the year since 1941.
In Colorado, conditions on New Year's Day were the driest since 2002, according to the National Resources Conservation Service.
Throughout the park, animals are desperately searching for water in the wake of the driest season in about 70 years.
It's the hottest, driest and lowest place in America, a two-hour drive west from Las Vegas through a searing hot desert.
First, the year from July 2010 to June 2011 was the driest in the eastern Horn of Africa in 60 years.
CNN: Somalia famine killed close to 260,000 people, report says
Provisionally, it was the 6th driest April over England in a series from 1910 and in East Anglia only April 2007 was drier.
The driest spring for over a century gave way to the wettest recorded April to June in a dramatic turnaround never documented before.
East Anglia had its second driest year on record with 17.6in (449mm) of rain and the Midlands its third driest with 23in (586.5mm).
BBC: 2011 is UK's second warmest year on record - Met Office
The company said figures released by the Met Office showed that in 2010, Scotland had experienced the driest January to June period since 1941.
The melt season is often the warmest, driest time of the year, providing large volumes of runoff for irrigation when it is most needed.
Mr Mead said he would be highlighting the fact that the East was the driest region in the UK, but had the fastest growing population.
In 1912 pioneers diverted the Murrumbidgee's waters into canals to create one of the biggest irrigation projects in Australia, the world's second-driest continent after Antarctica.
But the residents of Caleta Chungungo, a mountain village in one of the driest regions of northern Chile, have found a way of doing it.
The government says water companies, businesses, farmers and the public in the areas that have seen the driest conditions need to plan now for next summer.
But in one of the driest Novembers on record, Rhine River levels have dropped dramatically, revealing an unusually large trove of unexploded bombs in its bed.
Water levels in many reservoirs and lakes have plummeted to less than half their capacity due to the region's driest start to the year since 1929.
The shortage follows the driest August and September since 1873, according to Met Office figures, with only 27 mm of rain - just 23% of the average of 119 mm.
Living organisms have been found even in apparently inhospitable regions of the Earth, like the driest deserts or Antarctica, or near thermal vents in the black depths of the ocean.
His Web site not only provides information on all things Texas, but tells readers where they can find the wettest, driest, snowiest and most volatile weather cities in America.
Known as the driest, highest desert in the world, the Atacama Desert is full of surprises: mountains, volcanoes, salt flats, geysers, wetlands, hot springs and an abundance of animal and plant life.
Severn Trent said there were currently no restrictions and it had managed its way through the driest 18 months for 100 years by using innovative engineering and working closely with its customers.
Sandwiched between two of the world's most famous deserts - the Namib and the Kalahari - Namibia is the driest country in sub-Saharan Africa, with less than 370mm of rainfall on average each year.
CNN: Namibia country profile: moving on from a difficult past
Located in one of the driest regions on earth at an altitude at which the atmosphere is 50 percent thinner than at sea level, ALMA is the highest construction project in the world and arguably the most challenging.
For example, in the wettest possible absolute humidity, less than 20 percent of the virus was still viable after an hour, while at the driest conditions 80 percent of the virus was still capable of making someone sick.
应用推荐