Marsh wrote that "a majority of the foresters and physicists who have studied the question are of opinion that in many, if not all cases, the destruction of the woods has been followed by a diminution of the annual quantity of rain and dew" (Marsh 1864).
Sober tables of research are regularly interrupted by facts of the strange-but-true variety: "Total quantity of rain falling yearly in the metropolis, 10,686,132,230,400 cubic inches", or "The drainage of London is about equal in length to the diameter of the earth itself".
Due to lack of rain the quantity of wine delivered was worryingly low but the quality, Guy assured me, remained excellent.
In Rapid City, South Dakota, in 1972, an unusual alignment of winds at various levels of the atmosphere combined to produce a continuously training set of cells that dropped an enormous quantity of rain upon the same area, resulting in devastating flash flooding.
Monday's Salisbury meeting was rendered unraceable by a similar quantity of rain but Stickels said Ascot was certainly raceable and, on the basis of the current forecast, he did not feel there was a real possibility of Champions Day being lost or postponed.
In September and October, the heaviest rain generally takes place, the quantity of water in river overflow and flood along riverbank.
Hundreds more potholes have been created with the recent huge quantities of rain experienced across the south east of England.
"This is especially true for rainfall, because the timing of rain is just as important as the amount of rain.
The quantity of objects found is impressive.
