Sentence examples for rare rainfall from inspiring English sources

Previously, Manantiz had relied on rare rainfall to water its 30,000 olive trees, planted across 529 acres of parched land in one of southern Europe's driest regions.

Of the four UAE-isolated strains, Dunaliella sp. DN1 was isolated from hot desert mud after a rare rainfall in the region, Picochloris sp. DN1 was isolated in coastal Arabian Gulf waters, and Chloroidium sp. DN1 was isolated from municipal water in downtown Abu Dhabi (Fig.  4a c).

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 ).

In northernmost Sudan, northerly winds prevail for most of the year, and rainfall is rare.

We examined 550 melioidosis cases that occurred during a 10-year period in the highly urbanized city of Singapore, where soil exposure is rare, and found that rainfall and humidity levels were associated with disease incidence.

The lack of correlation that we observed may be explained because in the conditions of our study, maximum crawler captures were observed during the driest weeks of the year, when rainfall was rare, more similar to the conditions in which Beers et al. (2010) performed their study in Washington.

Unsurprisingly, heavy rainfall events were rare.

However, field observations on the temporal dynamics of FSD under changing rainfall conditions are rare.

Although intense rainfall events are rare in this region, the Pembina River catchment (7,500 km), which either incorporates or is near the four reservoirs in southern Manitoba, was subjected to an unusually high average rainfall of 133.3 mm during the 15 days before our scheduled July 2005 water sample collection at the end of the herbicide application period.

But rainfall has been a rare visitor to Afghanistan for three years running, and even the best of the desert dwellers have been humbled.

Along the North African coast from Qābis (Gabès) in Tunisia to Egypt, more than 10 inches (250 mm) of rainfall per year is rare, whereas on the Dalmatian coast of Croatia there are places that receive 100 inches (2,500 mm).