Sentence examples for sparse rainfall from inspiring English sources

Its sparse rainfall occurs chiefly in the winter season.

The sparse rainfall occurs mainly as sharp downpours between November and April and is higher in the northeast.

In America's agricultural heartland, searing heat and sparse rainfall have left farmers helpless as their corn and soy bean crops wither in dry fields.

The Aral Sea area is characterized by a desert-continental climate that features wide-ranging diurnal air temperatures, cold winters, hot summers, and sparse rainfall.

The Jubba carries more water than the Shabeelle, which sometimes dries up in its lower course in years of sparse rainfall in the Ethiopian highlands.

But this year, their enthusiasm is backed by measurable data: the long season, the sunshine, the sparse rainfall, the absence of disease and the quite obvious quality of the fruit.

The climate of Qatar is arid, with sparse annual rainfall averaging only 0.1 3.2 cm.

By their very nature, arid and semiarid ecosystems are characterized by sparse or variable rainfall.

Larger than any European country and dominated by circling hawks, rocks and cacti, its soils are poor and the rainfall sparse and irregular.

It is thought that the Great Drought (1276 99), combined with a subsequent period of sparse and unpredictable rainfall that persisted until approximately 1450, contributed to this process.

The risks from climate change – including the migration of pests and diseases to new areas and increasingly sparse and irregular rainfall – demand more innovation and can sometimes drive modernisation, Kalibata said.