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Example sentences for: rainfall

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The pictures are ruined, sometimes in a matter of moments, by the feet of the ensuing procession and certainly by the first rainfall.
As there is little rainfall on La Gomera this mist, spawned by the mystical trade winds, assumes great ecological importance having given life to this sub-tropical forest.
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.
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.
There is less rainfall and the rainy season is prone to fail, leaving most of the island parched and dusty.