Sentence examples for desert rainfall from inspiring English sources

As in the hot desert, rainfall is often very low and/or concentrated.

The first recorded occurrence of unusual desert rainfall was in 1525, when the Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro landed in northern Peru.

Inter-fingering of desert-derived sediments channeled down the tributary and backflow sediments from the main river indicate an increase in both upland and desert rainfall during the course of sedimentation.

Although not a "true" desert (rainfall there exceeds the maximum 1000 mm a year), precipitation mixing with drifting volcanic sulfur dioxide forms acid rain with a pH as low as 3.4, greatly hampering regional plant growth.

Cacti have shallow roots that quickly soak up infrequent desert rainfalls, and most species do not have leaves, which are easily desiccated.

In the semiarid areas bordering the desert, increased rainfall makes grass vegetation more plentiful, results in rocks becoming more weathered than in the desert, and produces better developed soils with a higher humus content.

"It's a huge bucket," said Florn Core, the former water resources manager for the City of Bakersfield, which is located in a natural desert where rainfall averages 5.7 inches annually.

In the Chihuahuan desert, annual rainfall is less than 50% of the long-term average in one year out of two (Herbel and Gibbens 1996).

The desert receives occasional rainfall and is extensively dissected by wadis (dry beds of seasonal streams).

Given the arid, vegetation-sparse, and rocky landscape of the desert nation, the rainfall from Chapala posed a dire threat, with as many as 1 million people affected.

They contain more than 900 different species of plants collected from all over the world – mainly succulents, aloes, palm trees and cacti that can adapt to a desert environment where rainfall has dropped to 100mm a year over the last decade.