Sentence examples for millimetres of rainfall from inspiring English sources

Raw sewage is regularly discharged into rivers and lakes – at least once a week – and sewer systems can be overwhelmed by a couple of millimetres of rainfall.

Much of Southeast Asia receives more than 60 inches (1,500 millimetres) of rainfall annually, and many areas commonly receive double and even triple that amount.

A key characteristic of the world's freshwater resource is its uneven spatial and temporal distribution and variability which is dictated largely by climate: with conditions ranging from arid deserts, with almost no rainfall, to the most humid regions, which can receive hundreds millimetres of rainfall a year.

Average precipitation of the area is above 1,500 millimetres (mm) of rainfall per year, supporting bi-annual seasons for crop planting and harvesting [ 15, 19].

On the average, rain falls on 69 days of the year; about half of the 26 inches (660 millimetres) of annual rainfall occurs between June and August, the southern winter.

Some areas of high ground in the Lake District received more than 400 millimetres (1.3 feet) of  rainfall over 72 hours.

On the mountain slopes, at elevations from 4,600 to 6,600 feet, yearly rainfall approaches 32 inches (800 millimetres), while the sheltered inland hollows and plains receive only 8 to 16 inches of rainfall a year.

The parameters are somewhat temperature-dependent, and the slope also scales with the rate of rainfall \langle d \rangle^{-1}=41 R^{-0.21} (d in centimeters and R in millimetres per hour).

Some representative annual amounts of rainfall needed for cropland in the western United States are 12 to 30 inches (305 to 760 millimetres) for grain and 24 to 60 inches (610 to 1,525 millimetres) for forage.

It was discovered that in one 14-hour period - from 1 PM on Nov. 3 to 3 AM on Nov. 4 - Florence received 190 millimetres of ater, of 1/4 of their annual rainfall.

"Climate change affected the intensity of rainfall.