Sentences with phrase «of rain for»

That's A LOT of rain for a high desert mountain climate.

California had its driest year on record and San Francisco recorded only 86 millimetres of rain for the year, less than 20 % of average and less than half the previous record low.

I think I'm up to about 400 mm of rain for March in my measurements.

As for Eastern Australia, we were short of rain for fifty years after 1895 (though, being Oz, we still managed some catastrophic flooding).

That's why Alan Henceroth, chief operating officer of Arapahoe Basin, a popular ski area in Summit County, Colorado, lost sleep over a forecast of rain for the first Saturday of the month.

Meanwhile, model runs earlier today indicated a potential for as much as 20 Inches of rain for some regions over the next 72 hours.

we all know that manufacturing uses a lot of water and it wouldn't take long with a lack of rain for the effect to be shown.

September averages just a bit more than an inch of rain for the entire month so kayak camping expeditions are usually very comfortable.

In fact there's a 70 % chance of rain for tomorrow's 2 hour 45 minute race so anything can — and may — happen at Mid Ohio.

The Córdoba Observatory recorded 385.4 mm of rain for the month, easily surpassing the 127 - year standing record of 266.4 mm set in 1889.

Timmerman says the models are predicting a higher chance of rain for California.

In comparison, Niagara County had 1.89 inches of rain for in April 2016 and 3.24 inches the year before that.

If not, don't worry: This is the country that scrambles military planes laden with silver iodide to bend the weather to its will, emptying the skies of rain for a Victory Day parade in Moscow or a Goodwill Games in St. Petersburg.

The morning appears to be the best time with the lowest threat of rain for the whole day, but there is still a chance for isolated to scattered showers through the morning.

But we did get a bout of rain for a few days, so I was leaning more towards warm, comforting foods.

The Kona District atmospheric conditions are almost always dry and sunny with just the right amount of rain for jackson farms kona coffee cultivation.

Sometimes light thunder sounds can be heard and followed by a light drizzle of rain for about five minutes and then stopped.

Not exact matches

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West Perth - based CBH Group has recorded a grain harvest of 13.2 million tonnes for the 2017 - 18 season, well above initial estimates following good finishing rains.

The South African city has gone three years with hardly any rain, and is warning that it will be forced to turn off most of its taps at an unspecified date in 2019, leaving people to queue up outside for their water.

While Harvey is technically packing less of a wallop as a tropical storm, heavy rains are still drenching parts of southeastern Texas and neighboring southwestern Louisiana, complicating rescue missions and compounding the misery for millions of Americans.

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.

(The MegaDo also raised more than $ 65,000 for charity, auctioning off items like a Qantas deck of cards, British Airways pajamas, model airplanes, fluorescent yellow rain suits worn by American's ground crew, two free tickets to Europe and 60,000 American miles.)

«I was going to bed every night and praying to the good Lord that we would get just one rain on the crop,» said Smith, who hopes to earn several thousand dollars for each acre - foot of water he can sell.

The National Hurricane Center on Tuesday afternoon said a record 51.88 inches (131.78 cm) of rain has fallen in Texas due to Harvey, a record for any storm in the continental United States.

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That cost, combined with viral images of rain - soaked scenes more suited for Glastonbury, seemed like enough to throw the young festival permanently off course.

In their 2010 third - quarter report, the company cites poor weather as a reason for slightly lower sales — a lack of rain last summer meant less beer in the fall and winter.

The NOAA advisory also notes the potential for hazards including tornadoes in south - central Louisiana and the western Florida panhandle, and extensive rain in parts of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida.

But while Australian demand for the fruit has been fueled by its store of healthy fats, supply has been strangled by heavy rain and bushfires, and because growers in western Australia, anticipating a fall in demand after Christmas, exhausted their stocks to flood the market in the lead - up to the holiday season.

China's first space station, called Tiangong - 1 or «Heavenly Palace,» will soon break up over Earth into a fiery rain of space — and the predictions for when it's coming down are getting more exact.

A cold rain is falling in Madison, Wisc., though it's cozy inside Wiggie's — the local hangout for the employees of the Oscar Mayer plant, where a bunch of retirees have settled in for a lunchtime beer and a bite.

When selecting the right rain jacket for your needs, put function in front of style.

Freezing rain predicted for many parts of the central Plains and mid-Atlantic US this weekend, drivers warned to stay off the roads, USA Today reports.

And, tired of passing out rain checks for out - of - stock sale items, supermarket chain Kroger Stores is consulting locally with Faith about a real - time FOD application to shrink the gap between print - ad expectations and day - of - sale supply.

For instance: «We're seeing people put the camera to the sky and use a theme to drive a lot of rain all of the sudden on a sunny day if they're not feeling good.»

«We're going to be investing in the milk business for a while to build the brand so it won't rain money in the early couple of years,» Douglas said.

Further, as of now, about one in 20 rocket launches fails, or more precisely, explodes in a massive fireball that rains debris down for miles around.

Winter is here, and it's about to get even colder in the northeastern and midwestern parts of the U.S. Winter storm Grayson has already begun delivering freezing rain and snow to states as south as Florida, coating Tallahassee with snow for the first time in 28 years.

With an eight - hour battery, the Scosche band is likely to last for an entire workout, and it's water - resistant in up to one meter of water, so it should be able to withstand a run in the rain.

For much of the Houston area, forecasters said the rain is pretty much over and the water is already back within its channels in some places.

Saturday is a busy day for the festival, but that day's nearly constant rain heightened folks» sense of crisis.

In fact, according to RAIN Group Center for Sales Research, cold - calling is one of the most effective ways to connect with tech prospects.

BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation)- It could take months for Haitian farmers to recover as heavy rains brought by Hurricane Irma have flooded parts of the impoverished Caribbean nation, humanitarians said, calling for better disaster preparedness.

But don't focus so much on the category number, which is determined solely by wind speed: It's the combination of wind, storm surge, rain, flooding, and even the possibility of tornadoes that are the biggest concern for much of the Florida peninsula.

When Hurricane Irma was advancing toward Florida in early September, weather officials were looking at a very scary scenario: an extremely powerful Category 4 or 5 storm hitting with 150 mph winds, flooding rains, and up to 15 feet of storm surge for coastal cities like Miami and Tampa.

While it's hard to say if the punishing number and intensity of storms were due to climate change, climate scientists have now determined — in two separate research efforts — that Hurricane Harvey's record - blasting rains (best measured in feet for much of Houston) were likely amplified by climate change.

Even with climate change, Harvey's rain was an extremely rare event, expected not to return for thousands of years, Karin van der Wiel, a co-author of the Environmental Research Letters study, said.

Harvey dumped more than 4 feet of rain on Houston, setting a new record for the greatest amount of rain recorded from a single tropical storm or hurricane in the continental United States.

The Cordillera Central mountain range that forms the spine of the island of Puerto Rico acted as a juicer for Hurricane Maria, Huffman explained, rapidly squeezing out 20 to 36 inches of rain from the cyclone.