Sentence examples for rainfall interrupts from inspiring English sources
The great Atacama Desert stretches along the Pacific coast from northern Chile and along coastal Peru nearly to the border with Ecuador; rare, but occasional, rainfall interrupts the barrenness of this parched, hostile environment permitting infrequent but noteworthy incursions of mosquitoes and epizoodemic VEE virus (4 ).
However, in the field, colloidal suspensions flow through a small number of preferential flow paths, and the soil experiences succession of rainfalls, interrupted by dry periods.
The second survey in 1997 followed a period of low rainfall which effectively interrupted mosquito-borne transmission for that season [23].
These fluctuation patterns are interrupted by rainfall at all places (e.g. July 11), but it is not caused by additional recharge (water table was relatively deep), probably induced by temporary reduction of vegetation groundwater uptake (Figs. 4 and 5). Figure 6 shows ET rates calculated with 30-min frequency for a representative time period.
Soils may have been degraded since prehistoric times and it seems possible that major erosion in the Decapolis region was not primarily related to land use or increased rainfall, but to more frequent extreme events interrupting prolonged droughts.
Rising temperatures and long cycles of drought interrupted by shorter, excessive bouts of rainfall increase the occurrence of pests and disease, seriously threatening Arabica coffee.
The match between Sao Paulo and Palmeiras had to be interrupted for over an hour because of the heavy rainfall.
A torrential rainfall was so severe that the start was delayed and the race was then interrupted for 45 minutes.
The intervals used in this model (3 d [mesic Mediterranean] - 7 d [semi-arid], 18 d [arid]) are similar to those found in nature [ 20], where longer intervals between rainstorms are interrupted by light rainfalls.
Rainfall estimates are often wrong.
