Greetings from Mount Dora, Florida, where we've had lots
of rain every day this week.
So, even when the forecast is for a 100 % chance
of rain that day, the odds of rain at any particular hour are much lower.
June through Sept is also the monsoon seasons, so expect a couple hours
of rain each day.
Such changes in the growing period are important, especially when viewed against possible changes in seasonality of rainfall, onset
of rain days and intensity of rainfall, as indicated in Sections 9.2.1 and 9.3.1.
Other agricultural activities could also be affected by climate change and variability, including changes in the onset
of rain days and the variability of dry spells (e.g., Reason et al., 2005; see also Chapter 5).
Haiti has now entered its rainy season that brings strong winds and up to five cm
of rain each day, with the Caribbean hurricane season quickly following.
Other than the fact that we had the absolute gloomiest day of the year and 5 inches
of rain the day I was taking pictures, our little Woodland Tree made even the darkest day a little warmer and brighter.
Not exact matches
At Kent Erickson's farm near Irma, Alta., (two hours southeast
of Edmonton), about an inch
of rain has been steadily falling every
day in recent weeks, which has been helpful to his wheat crops.
Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles
of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion
of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke
of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard
days — as recounted by the widow
of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack
of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number
of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations
of allegations by former members concerning the practices
of Scientology; corruption in the leadership
of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic
of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record
of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values
of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out
of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy
of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots
of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many
of America's public schools; an early exploration
of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study
of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one
of the world's last substantial
rain forests.
Six inches
of rain fell in parts
of the grounds on the festival's first
day, turning pavement into small oceans and grassy fields into mud pits.
Three
days into the job, I got out
of my car during a pouring
rain.
«Luckily, the fourth or fifth
day, there was a big
rain and we squeezed the water out
of our wet clothes.»
'» As such, it's something
of a mystery why after several
days of rain in Seattle followed by four hours
of sunshine, people indulge in fruit cups.
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.»
Saturday is a busy
day for the festival, but that
day's nearly constant
rain heightened folks» sense
of crisis.
As the wettest storm on record in US history bore down in the last
days of August — dropping five feet
of rain in some areas — completely inundating Houston, killing more than 70 people, and damaging almost 200,000 homes, at least five prisons on the east coast
of Texas were evacuated.
The city estimates that Dickinson received over 50 inches
of rain in just a few
days.
Traders may have been loath to go into the weekend long the market at a time when President Donald Trump is threatening to
rain bombs on Syria and Wall Street still doesn't know whether the U.S. and China are in the early
days of a full - blown trade war.
It may be hard to fathom what feet
of rain — amounts equaling yearly averages falling in a few
days — look like.
And I schlepped out again in the
rain on another
day of the hearing to offer support to those who were able to enter and document the proceedings.
These include the peak rate
of rainfall, total volume
of rain, the three -
day average rainfall, and the maximum depth
of rainfall.
And they dreaded the destruction that was yet to come from a storm that could linger for
days and unload more than 40 inches (100 centimeters)
of rain on cities, including dangerously flood - prone Houston, the nation's fourth - largest.
Rationing may also start in parts
of Negeri Sembilan, south
of Kuala Lumpur, if there is no
rain in coming
days, the New Straits Times reported today, citing the state's Chief Minister Mohamad Hasan.
It was one
of those dark, grey winter
days when the sun never appears and the
rain never stops.
The
rain kept up for most
of the
day, making the long, long walk around Chicago's Grant Park a little more treacherous.
The rightly ordered joy
of our senses in this world — the scent
of spring, warm
rain in the summer, the music
of Mozart or Beethoven, the face
of a beloved — is a foretaste
of the glory God made for all
of us to share, when we one
day stand in his presence.
Noah appeared foolish as did Gods story
of a flood in the
days and place where there was no
rain.
Surprisingly, Maine makes little
of these scenes: Noe (the author uses the spellings employed in a pre-King James translation) is portrayed in the opening sentence as glancing «toward the heavens, something he does a lot these
days,» but aside from the implication that he may be looking for further divine clarification and not just the promised
rains, we don't see him musing much.
Sometimes they align with a sort
of poetic symmetry — the gentle
rain at the funeral on September 11, the divorce papers arriving the
day you get the cancer diagnosis.
He said they also felt the same way in the
days of Sodom and Gomorrah, until God
rained down fire and brimstone and destroyed them as well.
28 Likewise also as it was in the
days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; 29 But the same
day that Lot went out
of Sodom it
rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
It has been
raining for five
days straight here in East Tennessee, resulting in terrible flooding and a very disappointing 4th
of July.
While exhorting us to contemplate nature, the Qur» an says, «In the creation
of skies and the earth, the difference between night and
day, the ships which run at sea carrying that which is useful for mankind, the
rain water which Allah sends down from the sky to revive the earth after its death, and to spread animals on it, and the arrangement
of winds and clouds between sky and earth, in all those things there are evidences (for the existence
of God) for those who make use
of their brains» (Surah II, 164).
In order to flood the earth in 40
days, it would require that it
rain over the entire earth at a rate
of 5 inches per MINUTE.
One
day after Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told reporters he gets on his knees every
day and prays for
rain, the Council for Secular Humanism - a leading atheist group - accused the Obama administration
of sending the wrong message to farmers caught in one
of the worst droughts in decades.
Revelations
of Jesus11: 6 These have Power to shut Heaven... that it
rain not in the
days of their prophecy.
He entered on the 17th
day of the 2nd month (Gen 7:11) and left on the 27th
day of the 2nd month
of the following year (Gen 8:14) There were 40
days of rain, 150
days of drifting, 150
days of receding water, 4 weeks for the recon birds to find land, 10
days between coming ashore and getting God's OK to disembark.
If there are 90 % insects, and we consider them to be all very small, (which we know they are not), we could say that each pair, in order to fit on the «ARK» would need 4 square inches for two
of them, plus their food for more than 40
days (Actually I think it was about a year, but we will go with about 40
days just to give the bible thumpers a chance, it supposably
rained for 40
days).
The
rain and driving winds
of 65 miles per hour are expected to cause problems for several more
days.
We have
rain showers every
day in my area, my buddy used some very accurate GPS survey equipment and located the end
of a rainbow.
During his week in Brazil for World Youth
Day, an international Catholic event, mob scenes erupted everywhere Francis went, despite cold temperatures and driving
rain for much
of the week.
The courageous Archbishop who celebrated Mass in the open air was the one who finally blessed the great new church — on a
day of great joy and pouring
rain with vast crowds attending — and who would later give that courage to the wider Church on his election to the Papacy as John Paul II.
Your second option is to throw out all that evidence, say it
rained for a really long time to create the big flood and have no earthly way
of explaining how it could happen and then your only real issue is the explanation
of how noah was able to fit every piece
of flora and fauna onto his ark, his family and enough food to survive for 40
days at sea.
The July 1984 edition reported, «Eight
days of almost constant
rain did not stop a total
of nearly a quarter
of a million people attending Bristol's Ashton Gate football stadium to hear Billy Graham preach.»
4c) let there be LIGHT (1 - 4 all the first
day) 5c) God next creates the heavens (what we call the sky) above (2nd
day) 6c) dry land appears as the oceans form (3rd
day) 7c) green plant life appears on land (3rd
day also) 8c) the cloud cover left over from the billions
of years
of rain finally condenses enough that a visible moon and sun can be seen from the earth's surface through the clouds (4th
day) 9c) God creates sea life including fish and birds (5th
day) 10c) God creates cattle and beasts (large land animals)(6th
day) 11c) God creates man.
I, RICK PERRY, Governor
of Texas, under the authority vested in me by the Constitution and Statutes
of the State
of Texas, do hereby proclaim the three -
day period from Friday, April 22, 2011, to Sunday, April 24, 2011, as
Days of Prayer for
Rain in the State
of Texas.
On Thursday, Perry turned to an even higher power by declaring the upcoming holiday weekend «
Days of Prayer for
Rain.»
Looking out on the morning
rain I used to feel so uninspired And when I knew I had to face another
day Lord, it made me feel so tired Before the
day I met you, life was so unkind But you're the key to my peace
of mind
The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene
of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece
of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil
day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs
of getting rid
of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm
of wind and
rain; the queer employer who pays all
of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole
day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success
of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces
of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding
of it the occasion
of a celebration in which all
of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!