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Example sentences for: rainfall

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Across this hemisphere, according to the scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, severe storms--meaning more than 2 inches of rainfall in a 24-hour period--are up about 20 percent compared with the century average.
Multiple and covarying drivers have been proposed for the seasonal nature of cholera, including temperature, rainfall, and plankton blooms [7].
Nonetheless, given the rainfall the heartland has had, yields there should be sufficient to prevent nationwide food shortages or price hikes.
Although several historical hypotheses suggest reasons why this asymmetry should exist (reviewed in Brown and Lomolino 1998), differences in present ecological factors, such as temperature gradients and rainfall variation, might also explain such asymmetry.
Thus, although the variation of metabolic rate with latitude is becoming increasingly well known for a variety of groups, Lovegrove (2000) has recently suggested, based on comparative work taking both species body mass and phylogeny into account, that unpredictability of resources associated with considerable inter-annual unpredictability in rainfall (in turn partly a consequence of El Niño–associated variability) has been responsible for the evolution of generally low metabolic rates in terrestrial mammals of most of the southern continents.