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• n  water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere

• Moderate rainfall in October was almost always followed by an exceptionally dry winter.
• The same was true of autism and rainfall patterns in California, Pennsylvania and Washington State.
• Except for insignificant rainfall, Egypt depends totally on the Nile for irrigation and power.

• rain

News & Articles

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• Rainfall 7+ above normal
  May rainfall in Crossville totaled 8.18 inches, which made it the seventh wettest May on record and pushes our rainfall for 2013 to 33.58 inches, which is seven inches above normal.
  June 12, 2013 - Crossville Chronicle
• Heavy rainfall expected Thursday
  Heavy rainfall expected Thursday Times Union Copyright 2013 Times Union. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 11:52 am, Wednesday, June 12, 2013 [...] on Thursday, lower temperatures and heavy rain will hit the region and continue into Friday, according to the National Weather Service. "An inch and a half to two and a half ...
  June 12, 2013 - Albany Times Union
• Heavy rainfall closes canal
  Heavy rainfall closes canal Times Union Copyright 2013 Times Union. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 9:46 pm, Tuesday, June 11, 2013 The effects of heavy rainfall forced state Canal Corp. officials to temporarily close the Erie Canal on Tuesday. According to the Canal Corp. website's notice to mariners, the 70-plus miles of ...
  June 11, 2013 - Albany Times Union

Quotes

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• Arnold Schwarzenegger in MarketWatch (press release)
  Even with the recent rainfall, California faces its third consecutive year of drought and we must prepare for the worst -- a fourth, fifth or even sixth year of drought,Schwarzenegger said. "Last year we experienced the driest spring and...
• Casey Cagle in San Diego Union Tribune
  If we can just manage the rainfall and utilize that and make sure that we have abundant storage for it, we can take care of our needs well into the future,said Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle.
• Linda Burney in Sydney Morning Herald
  But Ms Burney said yesterday the report was "a fairly academic calculation on flow rates, not on actual rainfall conditions".