"The Americans threaten us, we want to say, 'If you attack us, if you dare to do so, a rain of hot melted lead will be poured on you,'" Mr. Azima said.
If, as was the usual case until very recently, transportation is costly and slow, even a regionalized drought or an excess of rain can lead to disaster, although crops may be plentiful a short distance away.
It is generally believed that excessive rainfall often results in floods, while the long-term lack of rain can lead to droughts.
Media captionPete Fox from the Environment Agency says "even modest amounts of rain could lead to flooding" Sarah Jackson, the Met Office's chief adviser to the government, said: "We are heading into the winter period which is traditionally the wetter period of the year in the UK.
"We don't know when the lack of rain will lead to runaway conditions where the forests are beyond repair". Such a transition, especially in the lower elevations, is already underway in parts of the West, where nearly 6 billion trees — 13% of the area of western forests — died from 1997 to 2010 because of drought and the bark beetle.
Not only does Ocean sing "Acid on me like the rain" on the lead track of the most anticipated album of the decade, but rumors even circulate that he is tripping while shooting the video for the song, alongside the director Tyrone Lebon.
The UK strawberry season started two weeks later and raspberries three weeks later than usual – the latter adversely affected by mould as a result of rain which led to a lot of waste – according to Nicholas Marston, the managing director of Berry Gardens, the UK's largest berry grower.
The rain in U.P. can vary from an annual average of 170 cm in hilly areas to 84 cm in Western U.P. Given the concentration of most of this rainfall in the 4 months of Monsoon period, excess rain can lead to floods and shortage to droughts.
Environment Agency Wales said the rain "could lead to the possibility of excess water on road surfaces on Friday and flooding from blocked drains and small streams".
Meanwhile, the stormy weather subsided in the Central Valley and Northern California, hammered by several days of rain that led to flooding and landslides.
