Sentences with phrase «most rain on»

Most rain on Earth falls in the tropical rain belt known as the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ), which on average lies 6 ° north of the equator.

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On Tuesday, a rain gauge near Highlands, Texas registered 51.88 inches of rainfall — breaking the record for most rainfall from a single storm in the entire continental US.

Hurricane Irma, one of the most powerful Atlantic storms in a century, drove toward Florida on Friday as it lashed the Caribbean with devastating winds and torrential rain, leaving behind at least 21 deaths and a swath of destruction.

Hurricane Irma, one of the most powerful Atlantic storms in a century, churned across northern Caribbean islands on Wednesday with a catastrophic mix of fierce winds, surf and rain, en route to a possible Florida landfall at the weekend.

Haiti did not take a direct hit from Irma, one of the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes on record, but it unleashed rains that washed away fields of rice and plantains in coastal areas.

The most rain in the state fell on Fort Pierce.

In fact most of us would be trying to scratch out a living on a farm with no modern equipment, hoping for enough rain to produce food for the next year, and dying at 35 yrs old from diseases now cured by drug companies.

I'd say when it comes to religion, one of the most insidious forms of pride is manifested when someone like Santorum decides to stand up in public and self - righteously rain down judgement & condemnation on everything that he doesn't like.

If you noticed, we also need water to live and you'll find that most places are built near or on water sources for that reason, yet when it rains really hard or for other natural occuring events, floods happen.

Some of the most acclaimed American films are highlighted with lively production anecdotes and firsthand thematic reflections, including Singing in the Rain, On the Waterfront, The Sound of Music, The Sting, and Tender Mercies.

The limin» continued in full force on Sunday, when a caravan of cars converged on Farley Hill and most of the crew from Oistins was joined by Jasmine and Frank, Norman the jokester and Dennis for a rain - soaked picnic.

While we don't get the snow - covered winters that most people picture when they think «Canadian winter», on Vancouver Island we do get an awful lot of rain.

Alternatively, anything on the grill if it's not raining — most importantly grilling means almost no dishes to clean up other than my actual dinner plate.

But these yield differences are highly contextual, depending on system and site characteristics, and range from 5 % lower organic yields (rain - fed legumes and perennials on weak - acidic to weak - alkaline soils), 13 % lower yields (when best organic practices are used), to 34 % lower yields (when the conventional and organic systems are most comparable).

While most data is in agreement of steady to heavy rain once it arrives, it isn't in total agreement on when it arrives.

Occasionally Chichester is obliged to turn to the classics to piece out the narrative with passages from Conrad and Richard Henry Dana, but for the most part he draws on the solitary venturers in small craft — Joshua Slocum, the first man to sail alone around the world; Ann Davison, the first woman to sail alone across the Atlantic; Alain Bombard, the French physician who sailed a 15 - foot rubber dinghy 2,750 miles in 65 days to see if it was possible for a man to survive on the ocean without food or water except that provided by fish and rain.

The two middle rounds, a 72 on Friday and a 70 that began on Saturday and ended early Sunday morning because of rain delays, might well have been the most critical for him.

I hope we keep wenger give the man a long term contract you must want some unloyal cheapskate whos been fired at 5 clubs and successful at 1 or 2 for a few years when the club spent big cause they got a new manager and after a couple years got fired beacause those spendy players got old and that manager did nothing we have the most loyal consistent winning manager in europe and if the linesman did nt make incorrect call we woould of been 1 - 0 up and mkhitaryan played poor balls in the rain which we always play bad in amd are you suffering short term memory loss we beat tottenham 2 - 0 at home so we still won the derby on aggregate this season again thanks to mr.wenger i mean where to people come out woth these low iq thoughts and mostly you have to fire three new managers before you get a couple good seasons then start the circus again people should be embarrassed wenger to stay

It was a busy last week as we had make - up rain Games on Saturday and most Teams played multiple Games in the final Wednesday of the Regular Season as well..

As we said above, careless would be one word to describe the Tangerines in their maiden Premier League campaign, with their love for attacking football making them arguably the most supported team in the country as far as the neutral target group goes, but from a punter's perspective I find them a frustrating sort not least because they tend to turn up unannounced, trash the party and rain on someone's parade.

Add a touch of rain and my commute to work skyrocketed to around 1 hour and 30 minutes... Most of it on I - 55.

Parents think «It's raining, I better leave him in where he's safe» and carry him in, then «Oh, I'll just put it up on the shopping cart» and boom, baby is in the most dangerous spot he can be at.

Most of the time, our precipitation falls as rain -LCB- liquid water landing on the ground -RCB-.

But on the first morning of the storm, when the rain and flooding were most intense, I did actually laugh out loud when I learned via Facebook that the Houston Chronicle had chosen that particular day to publish a school food opinion piece I'd submitted a few weeks before.

But on the first morning of the storm, when the rain and flooding were most intense, I did actually laugh out loud when I learned... [Continue reading]

Snow falls from the ceiling, a girl is hoisted up in a shopping trolley, activists abseil, a fire roars, rain cascades down — and keep your eyes peeled for the most life - like polar bear you'll ever see on stage.

Most of all, you don't presume to pee on the legs of the people of CD1 and tell us it's raining... we know the difference between rain water and urine.

The reliance on rudimentary and rain - fed agriculture, Mr Greenstreet said, had not helped the country and advocated massive investment in the country's research institutions, and added that because most of the research institutions were donor - funded, they were promoting genetically modified crops in Ghana instead of paying attention to local crops.

So much rain fell already on Syracuse yesterday that it set a new record for the most rainfall on that date.

Labour is plainly suffering most, as the governing party, but the mood is, if not a plague on all your houses, then a pestilence, rain of frogs and death to the first - born on all your houses.

While some prayed for victory for Christians, most churches rained abuses, invectives and curses on the Buhari administration.

Floodwaters for the most part have receded from the torrential rains but some roads remained impassable on Thursday morning as the cleanup continued.

My health deteriorated and I was most of the time feeling dizzy when standing... Our situation became even worse when my two work cows and a donkey became very weak due to lack of forage... Because of the weak physical condition of my animals, I could not use them for long hours on the farm when the 2012 rains started setting in.»

For the most part, forecasts of its impacts on weather patterns were borne out, but forecasters fared relatively poorly in California, which relies on El Niños to deliver rains to parched areas.

For most of the year, peyote stays hidden below ground; only when it rains does it become visible on the surface.

«There's a very limited road system, and most of our travels are either by foot or by small airplane,» says Austin, who often spends weeks camped on the banks of the Sepik River in the north - central rain forest where he collects lizards, snakes, and frogs.

Most wildfires here are started by lightning early in the monsoon season, before the rains come to put them out, like the Nuttall fire in 2004, which began on a shoulder of the Pinalenos and catapulted up the mountain, eventually devouring 29,000 acres.

The Klausmeier model is based on a water redistribution hypothesis, which assumes that rain falling on bare ground infiltrates only slightly; most of it runs downhill in the direction of the next vegetation band.

On Sept. 12, Boulder, Colo., saw a record 9.08 inches of rain — the most rain ever recorded there in a single day.

In the 1980s, under conservative prime minister Brian Mulroney, Canada led the way in international policies to control acid rain and chlorofluorocarbons: the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer is the most successful piece of international environmental legislation ever enacted.

James O. Sickman, an environmental scientist at the University of California, Riverside, has conducted research on lakes in the Sierra Nevada — the most sensitive lakes in the U.S. to acid rain, according to the Environmental Protection Agency — and described human impacts on them during the 20th century.

For most of us, the rain that falls on our roof runs off into the ground or the sewer system.

They don't move the way we do, but some of them, the most visible ones, grow so large and are so complex it almost seems a sign of animal life: the mushroom big as a human fist found on your lawn the day after a rain, for example.

Covered in long red hair, standing more than 6 feet on its hind legs, emanating a stench so foul it disorients everyone in sniffing distance, the mapinguari is reputed to be the wildest, rarest, most mysterious and terrifying denizen of the rain forest.

Most news reports blamed it on the heavy rain, but Robert Criss, PhD, professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, said there was more to the flood than the rain.

Despite a near - average winter precipitation total for California, Oregon, and Washington, the record warmth caused most of the precipitation to fall as rain and not snow, which had implications on the drought intensification and water resource crisis during the warm months.

Get a tip on an aesthetically pleasing rain barrel, and learn the best place to position it to catch the most H20.

Most people start with a 3 day workout routine raining their whole body 3 times a week, but then move on to a 4 day or 6 day split meaning they're training a different body - part each workout day.

It was raining on my end most of the weekend and it was cold!

But we still get lots of rain so a jacket is still a must on most days.