Sentence examples similar to long-term rainfall averages from inspiring English sources

Scientists produced the first evidence that cloud seeding can boost long-term rainfall in 2009.

Long-term rainfall effects are hard to avoid.

The observed long-term rainfall data indicate that the intra- and inter-annual rainfall distribution was highly variable.

Only the year 1999 received equal rainfall amount with the long-term average rainfall.

Overall, England and Wales had only 45% of the long-term average rainfall for March, April and May.

But East Anglia had only 21% of the long-term average rainfall – giving the area its driest spring for 101 years.

Parts of central Europe had under 40 percent of their long-term average rainfall from February to April, and drought in much of Europe looks set to continue with little relief until June at the earliest, forecasters say.

If Earth's surface were perfectly uniform, the long-term average rainfall would be distributed in distinct latitudinal bands, but the situation is complicated by the pattern of the global winds, the distribution of land and sea, and the presence of mountains.

With parts of Europe seeing less than 40% of their long-term average rainfall between February and April, fellow EU states may follow suit.

But the Met Office said it had seen a contrast from south to north across the UK, with northern Scotland having received 85% of its long-term average rainfall so far this month, compared with 200% over southern England.

The national long-term average rainfall is 788 mm/year.