Sentence examples for modest rainfall from inspiring English sources
The Danubian region has only modest rainfall (about 24 inches [600 mm] per year at Budapest), but the Dinaric Alps experience heavy cyclonic winter, as well as summer, rain.
A day of even modest rainfall can deposit several million litres of water on a town or city".
Reports in Boston, however, indicate more modest rainfall amounts, with a precipitation rate of 0.40 inches per hour noted.
Similarly adverse conditions occurred throughout rest of the Keys and across the southern Florida Peninsula; 60 mph (100 km/h) wind gusts and modest rainfall stretched as far east as the Miami area.
Therefore, Agave can be sufficiently productive even with only modest rainfall common to portions of Mexico and the western United States.
Gains were more modest under non-saline, medium to low rainfall conditions (531 707 mm/year).
"Even modest amounts of rainfall, because the ground is so saturated, even relatively-small amounts of rainfall will still cause problems.
In places such as North Dakota, which receives modest amounts of rainfall, local residents and conservationists worry that the energy boom will deplete aquifers.
That's an especially complicated issue in the Imperial Valley, because runoff from farms like Cox's is the only source of water, other than modest amounts of rainfall and mountain runoff, for the Salton Sea, an immense but shrinking and increasingly threatened lake at the northern end of the valley.
This represents one of the first documented cases of system-wide biotic phase shifts to a relatively modest change in rainfall regime.
While crossing the Florida Keys on September 13, the depression dropped modest but beneficial rainfall, generally totaling 1 to 3 in (25 to 75 mm), over the southern Florida Peninsula.
