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unusual facts about rainfall



1851 Atlantic hurricane season

As the cyclone progressed inland, it dropped light to moderate rainfall, peaking at around 3 inches (75 mm) in Corpus Christi.

1933 Outer Banks hurricane

The storm dropped heavy rainfall across the region, including 1.1 in (27 mm) in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, and about 3 in (75 mm) in 15 hours in Gagetown, New Brunswick; there, the rains flooded roads and damaged crops.

1984 Pacific hurricane season

Heavy rainfall was recorded across Southern Mexico, with the maximum rainfall totals in Costa Azul and Acapulco,.

1990 Atlantic hurricane season

However, Marco is more notable for the impact from the remnants, especially in Georgia and South Carolina, where rainfall from the storm peaked at 19.89 in (505 mm) near Louisville, Georgia.

2002 Pacific hurricane season

In addition, rainfall damaged several homes in Tequila, Jalisco, but the National Hurricane Center believes that Boris likely did not cause the rain.

2010 China floods

In Huilai County in Guangdong, 603.5 mm of rain fell in six hours, the fastest rainfall accumulation recorded there in about 50 years.

2012 Nigeria floods

Heavy rainfall caused the Lamingo dam to overflow near Jos, sweeping across a number of neighborhoods in Jos, and approximately 200 homes were submerged or destroyed.

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#"Kanashiki Amefuri" (悲しき雨降り; "Sad Rainfall")

Acacia argyrodendron

Acacia argyrodendron is found in central Queensland in the basins of the Cape, Suttor and Belyando Rivers on clay soils in areas where the annual rainfall ranges between 475 and 655 mm (19-26 in).

Alamitos Beach, Long Beach, California

As in most locations in Southern California, rainfall occurs largely during the winter months.

Aponogeton distachyos

Native to South Africa Western Cape and Mpumalanga Provinces but introduced elsewhere in quiet ponds in warm temperate to subtropical climates in winter rainfall areas.

Banc d'Arguin National Park

Rainfall here is minimal; in Nouadhibou it averages less than three centimeters annually and occurs between July and September.

Bull Bay

The floods in September 2002 followed heavy rainfall that month (3,500 mm), thanks to Tropical Storm Lili.

Chinnar Wildlife Sanctuary

Average annual rainfall is only 500 mm, spread over about 48 days, because it is in the rain shadow region of the southern Western Ghats.

Climate change in South Korea

Seoul, South Korea has 227 years of precipitation records Cheugugi, which is the longest continual instrumental rainfall collection in the world.

Climate of Muscat

The Southwest Monsoon only affects the Dhofar region of Oman where light rainfall occurs but upper parts of Oman including Muscat remain dry during this period.

Climate of the Falkland Islands

The rainfall in 2009 as recorded from 17 different stations in The Wool Press varied between 356 mm at Cape Dolphin and 898 mm at Port Howard.

Deforestation in Brazil

In an American Meteorological Society Journal of Climate, two research meteorologists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Andrew Negri and Robert Adler have analysed the impact of deforestation on climatic patterns in the Amazon using data and observatory readings obtained from NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission collected over many years.

Encephalartos horridus

Naturally occurring Eastern Cape Blue Cycads can only be found around Port Elizabeth and Uitenhage districts of Eastern Cape, South Africa, which has a warm climate year round, average annual rainfall in the range of 250mm (10 inches) to 600mm (25 inches) and summer temperatures up to 40 °C (104 °F).

Erotic art in Pompeii and Herculaneum

For example, a wall fresco which depicted Priapus, the ancient god of sex and fertility, with his extremely enlarged penis, was covered with plaster (and, as Schefold explains (p. 134), even the older reproduction below was locked away "out of prudishness" and only opened on request) and only rediscovered in 1998 due to rainfall.

Glen

This material has eroded over the past 10,000 years to produce beautiful rocky glens (e.g., Watkins Glen and Treman State Parks) and waterfalls (e.g., Taughannock Falls) as rainfall has descended toward the lakes below.

Griffith Wetlands Important Bird Area

Campbell's Swamp is a black box-lignum swamp containing extensive open areas punctuated by stands of reeds and cumbungi; it fills occasionally from local rainfall or with water released from the irrigation system.

Hengchun

On the other hand, the warm and wet season, which covers the most of the year from early April to early December has daily highs usually reaching around 29-32°C during day time and night time temperatures around 24-26°C with a relatively abundant rainfall especially from May–October, when Taiwan is affected by the Pacific Typhoon Season.

History of flooding in Canada

On June 20, 2013 widespread flooding in southern Alberta caused major damage in Canmore, Calgary and High River when the Cougar Creek, Highwood River, and other rivers and creeks overflowed caused by extensive rainfall.

In June 1929 widespread flooding in southern Alberta caused major damage in Calgary and High River when the Bow River, Highwood River, and other rivers and creeks overflowed caused by extensive rainfall.

Katsuko Saruhashi

After the Bikini Atoll nuclear tests in 1954, the Japanese government asked the Geochemical Laboratory to analyze and monitor radioactivity in the seawater and in rainfall.

Kazakh wine

Average annual rainfall varies throughout the country ranging from 4-6 inches (100–150 mm) in the wine regions around Atyrau and Aktobe to 27-39 inches (700–1000 mm) in the regions around the Talas River.

Kislev

It is said that the forty days and nights of rainfall which covered the face of earth with water in Noah's time ended on Kislev 27 of the Hebrew year 1656 (2105 BCE).

Lakeshore Area Regional Recovery of Indiana

Valparasio, Ind. experienced a record amount of rainfall, according to its Mayor, Jon Costas.

Magomana

Rainfall is erratic and the vegetation is savanna dominated by grasses and Mopane trees.

Maranda, Zimbabwe

Rainfall is erratic and the vegetation is savanna dominated by grasses and Mopane trees.

Meteorological history of Hurricane Dean

Two weather stations on the island of Jamaica, one at Ingleside and the other at Morant Bay, both reported in excess of 13 in (33 cm) of rainfall.

Mudslide

On December 14, 1999 in Vargas, Venezuela, a mudslide known as The Vargas tragedy, which significantly altered more than 60 kilometers (37 mi) of its coastline, was triggered due to heavy rainfall and caused estimated damages of USD $1.79 to $3.5 billion, a death toll considered to be between 10,000 and 30,000, 85,000 people evacuated and led to the complete collapse of the state's infrastructure.

Nohsngithiang Falls

In the Sohra area, there are several waterfalls because of the heavy rainfall The cascading Nohsngithiang waterfalls at Mawsmai, the hauntingly beautiful Nohkalikai Falls, and the Dain Thlen Falls.

Nomadic pastoralism

It is found in areas of low rainfall such as the Arabian Peninsula inhabited by Bedouins, as well as Northeast Africa inhabited by Somalis (where camel, sheep and goat nomadic pastoralism is especially common).

Ok Tedi River

The sand conditions underneath the river and the extremely high rainfall of the catchment area make it one of the fastest moving rivers in the world.

Operation Rainfall

Operation Rainfall formed from the focus on three Wii-exclusive titles: Xenoblade Chronicles developed by Monolith Soft (makers of Xenogears and the Xenosaga series), The Last Story developed by Mistwalker and AQ Interactive, and Pandora's Tower developed by Ganbarion.

Speaking Operation Rainfall and its successors in 2013, Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime said "We certainly look at it, and we’re certainly aware of it, but it doesn’t necessarily affect what we do", and that Nintendo was already in the process of deciding Xenoblade's localization "while Operation Rainfall was happening".

Porongurup National Park

In 1978, Cyclone Alby felled many trees within the National Park (it was an unusual depression that produced very little rainfall after moving south of the Tropic of Capricorn).

Sahariya caste

This region is covered with thick and thin forest, with low rainfall, and is home to number of other tribal communities such as the Chero and Kol.

Scaly-tailed possum

The possum has a limited range and is found in high rainfall coastal regions of the north Kimberley between Yampi Sound and Kalumburu, populations also inhabit Bigge Island and Boongaree Island.

Signal de Botrange

In comparison with the rest of the county, the rainfall is much higher: it reached an annual average of 1450 mm compared with 800 mm in Uccle.

Taklamakan Desert

The key oasis towns, watered by rainfall from the mountains, were Kashgar, Marin, Niya, Yarkand, and Khotan (Hetian) to the south, Kuqa and Turpan in the north, and Loulan and Dunhuang in the east.

Timeline of the 1992 Atlantic hurricane season

In late June, Tropical Depression One caused severe flooding in southwestern Florida and Cuba; heavy rainfall was recorded in Pinar del Río, Matanzas, and Havana

Voronoi diagram

Voronoi diagrams that are used in geophysics and meteorology to analyse spatially distributed data (such as rainfall measurements) are called Thiessen polygons after American meteorologist Alfred H. Thiessen.

Water cycle

The first published thinker to assert that rainfall alone was sufficient for the maintenance of rivers was Bernard Palissy (1580 CE), who is often credited as the "discoverer" of the modern theory of the water cycle.

Werrikimbe National Park

There is a great variety of vegetation here, depending on rainfall and altitude: eucalypt woodlands, coachwoods, southern sassafras, stinging trees, long-leaf waxflowers and yellow carabeens with their flying buttressed trunks.

West Coast Range

The rainfall records of Lake Margaret were on a par with Tully in Queensland for the highest rainfall in Australia.


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