Sentence examples for rainfall is scant from inspiring English sources
No water enters the Red Sea from rivers, and rainfall is scant; but the evaporation loss in excess of 80 inches per year is made up by an inflow through the eastern channel of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait from the Gulf of Aden.
(The salt-hosted Waste Isolation Pilot Plant facility in New Mexico, which until a recent incident was the world's only operating geologic repository for long-lived radioactive wastes, accepts only transuranic wastes producing little heat). Tuff at Yucca Mountain is above the water table and in a location where rainfall is scant.
Diaz (1962), quoting Castañeda Vega, explains that feed rations based on P. juliflora pods keep dairy cows well nourished in the Argentine provinces where rainfall is scant, such as Catamarca and La Rioja.
More seasonal afternoon thunderstorms this month and next could bring relief, but officials are already cautioning that further water delivery cuts may be in store if rainfall again is scant.
Rainfall has been scant this year.
Average annual precipitation is scant, about 13 inches (330 mm); the plains are subject to cycles of drought followed by periods of unusually heavy rainfall and flooding.
Insurance coverage is scant.
