During the year approximately 300 days are sunny and the few others are rainy, with a major concentration of rainfall in the winter and autumn, some heavy showers in the spring, and snowfalls on the highest massifs and highlands.

Precipitation is heavy, owing to the strong onshore winds in summer and the high frequency of North Pacific storms affecting the island in the autumn.

The heavy losses in veteran crews on this and subsequent deep penetration missions in the autumn of 1943 led the Eighth Air Force to limit missions to targets within escort range.

Snow is heavy in late autumn, winter, and early spring and remains on the ground for the entire winter.

In the autumn he was ordered to Little Egg Harbor, where in the engagement on 15 October, known as The Affair at Little Egg Harbor, the legion suffered heavy losses.

The climate is extreme: snow for many months, very violent winds over autumn and winter ( known locally as " la burle "), frequent fogs in the valleys, extreme falls of temperature between the seasons, with heavy rains ( 1, 500 mm per year in average ) strongly concentrated in September and October.

In autumn, heavy showers in the region caused the Han River next to the city to overflow.

A heavy drinker for many years, Carter was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in the autumn of 1987, and received unsuccessful treatments for the disease.

Temperatures are moderate year round, whilst rainfall is generally heavy especially in the autumn months, when in the most exposed southwestern areas near Tasu daily rainfalls as high as have been recorded, and the annual rainfalls are among the highest in the world outside the tropics.

When Philip II of Spain tried to invade England, the Spanish Armada in Ireland suffered heavy losses during an extraordinary season of storms in the autumn of 1588.

Bandar-e Anzali has the most humid climate of any city in Iran, having a climate somewhat similar in its heavy autumn and early winter rainfall and persistent high humidity and low sunshine to the Sea of Japan coast of Japan, though it receives much less summer rainfall than that region it remains classified as a humid subtropical climate ( Köppen Cfa ).

Most rainfall is produced by thunderstorms in spring or summer or by cloudbands from the northwest in autumn and winter, but sometimes cyclones from the Pilbara decay into rain depressions and produce heavy rainfall.

Traffic through the village has been so heavy on weekends during summer and peak leaf peeping weekends in early autumn that many residents have proposed making Main Street one-way, carrying traffic only to the west, while diverting eastbound traffic onto either of two parallel streets.

It has a mediterranean climate, has 300 mm of precipitations all year, rain in winter, occasionally in spring and autumn, the wettest month is february, has cool winters average temperature 63 ° F, and warm summers with average temperature 72 ° F, in May 4 of 2011 was recorded in the city 93 ° F, unusual, in December 16 of 2008 was recorded in a flood in the city center by heavy rains.

No buildings remain as of autumn 2005 because of arson and heavy vandalism.

The climate is humid continental with very heavy precipitation especially in the autumn and a strong seasonal lag with maximum temperatures in August and September.

Spring and autumn are changeable seasons, which may experience wintry or sultry weather, heavy rainfalls or pleasant sunny days.

As the autumn came, however, a long spell of heavy rainfall flooded the Han River next to the city, drowning the majority of the relief forces.

The River Rib used to have frequent floods due to heavy rain in the autumn, but this propensity was resolved by dredging and engineering work in the 1970s.

Young Hermann ’ s tortoises emerge just after the start of the heavy autumn rains in early September, and spend the first four or five years of their lives within just a few metres of their nest.

The introduction in the summer and autumn of 1944 saw the adoption of the folding-fin R4M unguided rocket for use, underneath the wings of the Messerschmitt Me 262 jet fighter for bomber destroyer duties against the USAAF's Eighth Air Force heavy bombers.

Thomas Crisp's self – sacrifice in the face of this " unequal struggle " was used by the government to bolster morale during some of the toughest days of the First World War for Britain, the summer and autumn of 1917, during which Britain was suffering heavy losses at the Battle of Passchendaele.

Rize and the eastern part of the Black Sea coast where it is situated has the highest precipitation in western Asia, with an annual precipitation averaging around, with heavy rainfall year round and a maximum in late autumn ( October to December ).

Battle for Ozzfest is a reality TV show that aired during autumn 2004 on MTV, where eight bands ' battle ' it out in a series of challenges to win a spot on the stage of the metal festival Ozzfest, which is a primarily heavy metal-subgenre based music festival.

He stays inactive for half the summer in front of Oczakov, a quite second-rate spot, begins to besiege it formally only during the autumn rains, and finally carries it by assault in the heart of winter.

Though some true crocus bloom with the fall ( autumnal ) rains, after summer's heat and drought, the name autumn crocus is often used as a common name for Colchicum, which is in the lily family ( Liliaceae ), and which has six stamens ; it is also known as meadow saffron, though unlike true saffron, the plant is toxic.

The Soviet armies were in a poor state after the catastrophes of Uman and Kiev, and could offer only sporadic resistance, but the German advance was slowed by the autumn rains and the Soviet scorched earth policy, which denied the Germans food and fuel and forced them to rely on overstretched lines of supply.

It had taken U. S. 5th Army, in deteriorating weather as the torrential autumn rains broke, from the middle of October to early November to fight their way across difficult terrain and through skillful and determined rearguard defences from the Volturno Line positions to the Bernhardt Line.

Furthermore, the roads were becoming impassable under the autumn rains, and Hampton's supplies would soon be exhausted.

The poem has six cantos for the six Indian seasons-( summer ), ( monsoon / rains ), ( autumn ), ( cool ), ( winter ), and ( spring ).

The weather in Cosamaloapan is warm and wet all year with rains in summer and autumn.

The weather in Acajete is very cold and wet all year with rains in summer and autumn.

The plants typically germinate in the autumn after the first rains and exist as rosettes throughout the first year, forming a stout, fleshy taproot that may extend down 30 cm or more for a food reserve.

Most seeds germinate in autumn after the first rains, but some seeds can germinate year round under favourable moisture and temperature conditions.

However, Kesselring's defense had won him time until the onset of the autumn rains.

Magnificent views are to be obtained in the spring and autumn of the snow crowned mountains of Kashmir ; and gorgeous sunset and cloud effects seen daily during the rains.

With the lull in the fighting, and the onset of autumn rains, coupled with endless hills and deepening mud, Middleton's left knee, which had been uncomfortable for more than a year, was now becoming agonizing.

When the autumn rains began, the ground rapidly became inches deep in water.

In Japanese poetic tradition, it is particularly associated with the cold rains of autumn.

Dimitrie Cantemir, referring to this river in his work Descriptio Moldaviae, says "... one could say that it doesn't arise from a spring: it is only full after the rains of autumn and only then can one call it even a rivulet.

Jashn-e mehregan is the celebration for the Fereydun's victory over Zahhāk ; it is also the time when autumn rains begin to fall.

Fresh leaves appear with autumn rains.

The Arda follows the typical pattern of an Apennine torrent with maximum discharges during the spring and autumn rains and a minimal flow during the summer.

Although usually accompanied by fair weather, if the SE wind is accompanied by a cut-off low as occasionally happens in the spring and autumn months, this can cause heavy rains to fall over the Western Cape.

Normally the fire season extends from June 1 each year until the time of the first autumn rains, which is usually in mid-November.