The soils may be fertile enough, and rainfall may be adequate, but rainwater quickly moves through the crevices into the ground, sometimes leaving the surface soil parched between rains.

The Karoo apparently does not experience drought on a regular basis, so even though the area is technically desert, regular winter rains provide enough moisture to support the region ’ s interesting plant community.

He saw that after snow-melt and spring rains, the rivers of the West flooded, releasing huge amounts of water, and that for the rest of the year not enough rain fell to support any kind of real agriculture.

However, due to extremely heavy rains, the Susquehanna River crested high enough that most of the city had to be evacuated on June 28, 2006, forcing the cancellation of the events.

Timing was crucial to ensure that after leaving Missouri to cross the vast wilderness to Oregon or California, wagon trains would not be bogged down by mud created by spring rains, or by massive snowdrifts in the mountains from September onwards, and that their horses and oxen would have enough spring grass to eat.

Numerous terraced farms and water channels were built throughout the region in order to collect enough run-off from winter rains to support agriculture in the hyper arid zone of southern Israel.

At times, Whirlpool River and Jackfish Creek can be used for canoeing & kayaking when the water is high enough, usually after heavy rains or spring runoff.

According to Lillie McGarvey, a 20th-century Aleut leader, barabaras keep " occupants dry from the frequent rains, warm at all times, and snugly sheltered from the high winds common to the area ".

In this clearcut, almost all of the vegetation has been stripped from surface of steep slopes, in an area with very heavy rains.

As for people of Kutch, this day is associated with beginning of rains in Kutch, which is largely a desert area.

Within the area are several watering places, and winter rains bring up short-lived but succulent grasses that permit nomadic herding during the winter and spring.

Still farther to the south, however, the Anti-Lebanon Mountains bar the rains from the Mediterranean, and the area, including the capital city of Damascus, becomes part of the semiarid climatic zone of the steppe, with precipitation averaging less than a year and with temperatures from in January to in July and August.

The break-out cost them heavy losses, as did a further attempt to escape by marching through another forested area, with the torrential rains continuing.

Virtually rainless for nine months of the year, this area becomes flooded for the three months of heavy rains.

During the final weeks of the American Civil War, heavy rains created crevasses in the West Baton Rouge Parish levee, and flood waters overflowed the area, bringing a temporary halt to military skirmishes.

When heavy rains occurred in the area, the park was prone to flooding.

Torrential rains had left Pelham Island area of Wayland isolated and the Ducks were brought in to ferry people in and out of their neighborhood until the waters receded.

On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit the Mississippi Gulf Coast with high winds, heavy rains and a storm surge, causing massive damage to the area.

In the summer, the monsoon can reach the area, bringing heavy rains, and thunderstorms ( like July 3, 2011, when flooding occured, shutting down traffic lights ).

When settlers during the 1800 ventured across this area, they often went into these channels expecting to find water, however, unless significant rains had occurred recently, their search was in vain, with many of the parties becoming " lost ", hence the name, Lost Draw.

Investigation showed that these houses had been built on top of an ancient active landslide area, and three straight years of higher than average rains set the earth into motion.

Reports from the area indicated heavy rains, winds and large hail.

A more typical result of surface dew points above are extreme precipitable water readings as well as other indices used to forecast severe thunderstorms and flooding such as Convective available potential energy as was illustrated in early June 2008 when thunderstorms originating in Minnesota and Iowa mushroomed when hitting the area of extreme dew points in South-Central and South-East Wisconsin from and inaugurated the third wave of upper Middle West flooding ( the first was snowmelt from the record-breaking winter snows and the third was the widespread rains in excess of and up to during early August 1997 ) by producing extremely heavy rain over the region, with many areas receiving and a few areas of in 3 to 6 hours ' time.

If this low-pressure area moves back toward the southeast, the mistral will quickly clear the air and the good weather will return ; but if the cold-weather front continues to approach the land, bad weather will continue for several days in the entire Mediterranean basin, sometimes transforming into what French meteorologists call an épisode cévenol, a succession of torrential rains and floods, particularly in the areas west of the Rhone Valley: the Ardèche, the Gard, Hérault and Lozère.

During the dry season the islands can be reached by road but after the rains 80 % of the area becomes flooded, cutting them off from the mainland.

The climate is considered to be semi arid and temperate, with only the area bordering Benito Juárez and Iztapalapa considered to be semi moist with rains in the summer.

In the spring, after the winter rains, the area is covered by young crops or fresh grass.

* 26 July – Mumbai and the Mumbai Conurbation area is submerged in 5 – 7 ft. of water due to heavy rains, making nearby dams release water causing a massive flood, which virtually stops the financial capital of India for 4 – 5 days.

During the Mount Graham stake's biannual stake conference in September 1941, unusually heavy rains caused the Gila River to overflow its banks, flooding several of the towns in the Mount Graham stake and causing $ 100, 000 in damage to the farms and buildings of Latter-day Saints in the area.

After scanning historic floods in 1990, due to topography town can not expand, while the rains from earlier scattered, especially flash floods landslides history did take from 20-30 % of area of ​​ the colony.

The area of land under cultivation has fallen due to failing rains and relatively poor soil fertility.

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.

Agriculture production is constrained by an almost total dependence on erratic winter snows and spring rains for water.

Occasional jumbles of sandstone hills or low mountains support only meager and stunted vegetation that thrives for a short period after the scanty winter rains.

As for the grain, he says, – since they have no pure sunshine – they pound it out in large storehouses, after first gathering in the ears thither ; for the threshing floors become useless because of this lack of sunshine and because of the rains.

"… they are obliged to live in a separate part of town …; for they are considered as unclean creatures … Under the pretext of their being unclean, they are treated with the greatest severity and should they enter a street, inhabited by Mussulmans, they are pelted by the boys and mobs with stones and dirt … For the same reason, they are prohibited to go out when it rains ; for it is said the rain would wash dirt off them, which would sully the feet of the Mussulmans … If a Jew is recognized as such in the streets, he is subjected to the greatest insults.

Those in the clayey soil of eastern Sudan, a region of great economic importance, were impassable for several months during the rains.

In early November with the start of the short rains the migration starts moving south again, to the short grass plains of the south east, usually arriving in December in plenty of time for calving in February.

But the name may also derive from the Hebrew root K-S-L as in the words " kesel, kisla " ( hope, positiveness ) or " ksil " ( Orion, a constellation that shines especially in this month )-because the expectation and hope for rains.

Reinforcements for both sides marched out on the 15th ; travel was quite difficult due to the heavy rains.

Desiring good weather for his advance, which would permit close ground support by USAAF tactical aircraft, Patton ordered the Third Army chaplain, Colonel James O ' Neill, to compose a suitable prayer: " Almighty and most merciful Father, we humbly beseech Thee, of Thy great goodness, to restrain these immoderate rains with which we have had to contend.

Israel's agriculture depends heavily on rains that come only seasonally, so Jewish prayers for rain are prominent during Israel's rainy ( winter ) half of the year.

In moist climates, soils may be adequate for cropping with the exception that they become waterlogged for brief periods each year, from snow melt or from heavy rains.

In the Epistle of James, the Bible urges Christians to be patient, and " see how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth ,... until it receives the early and the late rains.

It rains an average of 80 days a year, for a total of 693. 4 mm a year.

Tops will die back in the heat of summer and may return with monsoon rains ; bulbs can remain in the ground or be harvested and stored in a cool dry place for planting in the fall.

The < font color =" red "> third degree </ font > of miracles is when God does what is wont to be done by the operation of nature, but without the operation of the natural principles: for instance when by the power of God a man is cured of a fever that nature is able to cure ; or when it rains without the operation of the principles of nature.

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.

Occasionally, Murcia has heavy rains where the precipitation for the entire year will fall over the course of a few days.

When the rains arrive, the vegetation, which is a combination of low bushes and grass clumps, is quickly renewed, and for a time the guban provides some grazing for nomad livestock.