And drownings continue to claim many lives, particulalry when heavy rains increase the flow of rivers at the border.
Sometimes, blooms of the dinoflagellate genus Gymnodinium occur along the U.S. Gulf Coast when abnormally heavy rains increase the runoff of agricultural and industrial wastes.
The presence of sand favours drainage but in case of low rains increases the risk of poor yields.
The one area of slight overlap is for Fukomys damarensis, which, after a year of heavy rains, increased the frequency of newly founded, single-female colonies, with a concomitant drop of its sociality score to 0.80 (Table 4).
"The start of the rains increases the likelihood of water-borne diseases, which can lead to fatalities especially amongst children," said UNICEF Representative Ted Chaiban.
As the storm weakened and stalled near the northern coast of Honduras, the rains increased in intensity, causing flash floods and mud slides, which devastated coastal regions and the Honduran island of Guanaja.
Over the past 50 years, he said, winter precipitation in the Sierra Nevadas has been falling more and more in the form of rain, increasing flood risks, instead of as snow, which supplies farmers and taps alike as it melts in the spring.
Longer exposure to epiphytic seed rain increases the probability of (repeated) colonization.
As commuters and commercial traffic cause pollution to build up over the course of the week, the likelihood of rain increases: it peaks by Saturday, after five days of weekday pollution has been built up.
The amount of rain increases toward the east.
