Sentence examples for meagre rainfall from inspiring English sources

With a poor drainage pattern because of low relative relief and meagre rainfall, the steppe has numerous lakes, mostly salt; Lake Kulunda is the largest.

Its potentially fertile soils, though handicapped by meagre rainfall, high evaporation rates, and periodic droughts, support grazing, dry-land farming of wheat and grain sorghums, and irrigated cotton production.

In a region with meagre rainfall, growing grass is the farmers' main vocation.

Even this meagre rainfall brings life to the grassland and the dormant, grazed tussocks begin sprouting, giving the first flush of the grass crop.

Meagre rainfall due to the conventional thunderstorms occurs during the months of April and May (http://ietd.inflibnet.ac.in:8080/jspui/bitstream/10603/16830/9/09_chapter%202.pdf).

Although rainfall is meagre, every home has its own cistern to catch runoff, and there is some cultivation of onions, yams, and sweet potatoes.

IN THE dry desert on the west coast of Namibia, where the annual average rainfall is a meagre 40mm, the Namib beetle (Stenocara gracilipes) has evolved a unique mechanism to drink.

But during winter season, rainfall is erratic and meagre, therefore, potato crop in the region can only be grown with supplemental irrigation.

Rainfall in deserts is usually meagre.

Its outflow is irregular, with high waters in winter (due to the oceanic rainfall) and in spring, when the snow melts, but with meagre flows in summer and autumn.

Compensation has been meagre.