Due to lack of rain the quantity of wine delivered was worryingly low but the quality, Guy assured me, remained excellent.
3. Rainfall The slow forward movement of Isaac is also likely to produce rain in quantities comparable to Katrina.
In Los Angeles, after 10 months without rain, poisonous quantities of filth are bleeding into the ocean: oil, gasoline, antifreeze, brake pads, plastic bags, industrial waste, lawn fertilizer, animal dung.
A Network Rail spokesman said: "Strong winds, torrential rain and large quantities of fallen leaves are making conditions difficult on the railway today.
This is manifest in significant increases of radar reflectivity observations and associated integral quantities (rain rate) at low levels (within 500 m of the surface), as well as changes in the observed microphysical properties of rainfall (raindrop size distribution).
Sober tables of research are regularly interrupted by facts of the strange-but-true variety: "Total quantity of rain falling yearly in the metropolis, 10,686,132,230,400 cubic inches", or "The drainage of London is about equal in length to the diameter of the earth itself".
Monday's Salisbury meeting was rendered unraceable by a similar quantity of rain but Stickels said Ascot was certainly raceable and, on the basis of the current forecast, he did not feel there was a real possibility of Champions Day being lost or postponed.
These alien species accounted for up to 65.9% of the seed rain in terms of quantity.
The quantity of rain and its distribution is hardly sufficient for raising the traditional grain crops.
Marsh wrote that "a majority of the foresters and physicists who have studied the question are of opinion that in many, if not all cases, the destruction of the woods has been followed by a diminution of the annual quantity of rain and dew" (Marsh 1864).
