A look out of the window at the rain provides information about the matter.
Also, a natural phenomenon such as heavy rain provides much variability around a model.
From January to March of each year wildebeest gather in Tanzania's Ngorongoro Conservation Area for calving season, when the rain provides grass for around 260,000 zebra and 1.7 million wildebeest, followed by 470,000 gazelles and an abundance of other game.
Some schools began to close in Malaysia this month; the night air in Singapore smelled of bonfires before rain provided some relief.
Guillaume Apollinaire's war poems, Calligrammes (1918; Calligrammes: Poems of Peace and War), with their unforgettable images of darkness, gas, and blinding rain, provided new forms to represent the dislocation of the European landscape and its human subjects.
The portents for a shock had been mixed: although the greasy pitch and incessant rain provided the archetypal cup leveller, Wednesday came into the contest on the highest high most in these parts remember.
During "Where Is the Love?," as the rain fell fast, will.i.am talked about the man who adopted apl.de.ap from the Philippines as a child, and Fergie talked about the nourishment that the rain provided to the trees.
Though forecast, the rain provided one element whose impact could not have been factored so closely into the minute-by-minute choreography of pomp and circumstance in which the royal household excels — the outfits and the pearls, the queenly hats, the guards' shining breastplates, the prancing stallions, the soaring choruses of "God Save the Queen".
But when Game 6 went into extra innings, it put pressure on the Red Sox bullpen, and this is where the rain provided a possible advantage: with closer Dick Drago used up earlier in the game, Johnson was able to use his third starter, Rick Wise, in the 12th inning.
The following day the quagmire of the Balmoral showground on the outskirts of Belfast in the pouring rain provided the perfect setting for settling scores.
Media-fueled alarm about acid rain provided a basis for legislation to create markets for buying and selling excess sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen dioxide emission credits, and Project 88 became the Clean Air Act of 1990.
