The system, along with new sod, was installed to prevent the field from becoming too wet to play on during light to medium rains, and to reduce the time needed to dry the field adequately.

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.

In southern and southeast Asia, where the monsoon occurs, summer is more generally defined as lasting from March to May / early June, the warmest time of the year, ending with the onset of the monsoon rains.

Longer rains normally occur in April and May although this is often referred to as the " Green Season ", and it typically does not rain every day during that time.

This is especially true immediately after the rains, but at no time of the year does the district present a dried-up or burnt appearance.

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.

A popular time to visit the park is following heavy rains when wildflowers emerge.

The streams that were considered an asset when the Village was founded also were responsible for damages from time to time when excessive rains caused them to overflow their banks.

Marsupial moles spend most of their time underground, coming to the surface only occasionally, probably mostly after rains.

At the time the filmmaker came across the notion of a rain of frogs, he was " going through a weird, personal time ", and he started to understand " why people turn to religion in times of trouble, and maybe my form of finding religion was reading about rains of frogs and realizing that makes sense to me somehow ".

At harvest time, rains and downy mildew are two of the main hazards to worry about, along with early spring hail damage earlier in the growing season.

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.

Flooding is also most common in and near mountainous areas during this time of year because of snowmelt, accelerated by warm rains.

However, by 1107, at the time of the creation of the 1st Baron of Wooler, the settlement was described as " situated in an ill-cultivated country under the influence of vast mountains, from whence it is subject to impetuous rains ".

This photograph was taken during the driest time of year — summer rains generally extend from July through September.

The Zebra Finch breeds after substantial rains in its native habitat, which can occur at any time of the year.

There is not much vintage variation due to the reliability of favorable weather with little risk of summer time frost or harvest time rains.

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

The only time she couldn't take off is when heavy rains or storms occur ( she found out the hard way when she tried to get help in one episode ) or when she had to wear something that would keep her grounded at all times.

A little after noon the Union soldiers began to move toward the Confederate lines, and at about the same time the rains began.

During this time, intense driving rains caused catastrophic flooding, resulting in thousands of deaths and millions in crop damage.

For lawyers, reflecting perhaps their parochial preferences, there has been a special fascination since then in the role played by the Supreme Court in that transformation -- the manner in which its decisions altered in `` the switch in time that saved nine '', President Roosevelt's ill-starred but in effect victorious `` Court-packing plan '', the imprimatur of judicial approval that was finally placed upon social legislation.

At the same time, however, I availed myself of the services of that great English actor and master of make-up, Sir Gauntley Pratt, to do a `` quickie '' called The Mystery of the Mad Marquess, in which I played a young American girl who inherits a haunted castle on the English moors which is filled with secret passages and sliding panels and, unbeknownst to anyone, is still occupied by an eccentric maniac.

At the end of work one day, the personnel man took the applicants one at a time, asked them to sit behind the receptionist's desk and he then played the role of a number of people who might come to the receptionist with a number of queries and for a number of purposes.

Sophia Gardens in Cardiff held the First Test in the 2009 Ashes series, the first time England had played a home Test in Wales.

She is one of a few characters who played a major part in the original cause of the Trojan War itself: not only did she offer Helen of Troy to Paris, but the abduction was accomplished when Paris, seeing Helen for the first time, was inflamed with desire to have her — which is Aphrodite's realm.

The one occasion where the band was introduced as " The Alan Parsons Project " in a live performance was at Night of the Proms 1990 ( at the time of the group's break-up ), featuring all Project regulars except Woolfson who was present but behind the scenes, while Parsons stayed at the mixer except during the last song, where he played acoustic guitar.

Although clubs from other states were at times invited, the final was almost always between the premiers from the two strongest state competitions of the time — South Australia and Victoria — and the majority of matches were played in Adelaide at the request of the SAFA / SAFL.

Sayany-Khakasiya have played in the highest division of Russian Bandy League for a long time.

In some countries, the rules require that after the hand is played for the first time, the players write the hands down on the travelling scoresheet, which can be consulted later if the cards are accidentally mixed up.

Beatmatching ( or Beatmaxing ) is a disc jockey technique of pitch shifting or timestretching a track to match its tempo to that of the currently playing track e. g. the kicks and snares in two house records hit at the same time when both records are played simultaneously.

As the playing time for each individual game is short, it is often played in matches, where victory is awarded to the first player to reach a certain number of points.

" According to North Carolina musician Walter Davis, Jefferson played on the streets in Johnson City, Tennessee, during the early 1920s at which time Davis and fellow entertainer Clarence Greene learned the art of blues guitar.

Gaming machines, such as slot machines and pachinko, are usually played by one player at a time and do not require the involvement of casino employees to play.

During this time Attlee also played football for Fleet Town F. C .. Attlee then trained as a lawyer, and was called to the Bar in 1906.

At this time, the team played their home games at South Side Park.

Chamada means ' call ' and can happen at any time during a roda where the rhythm angola is being played.

About this time, an organization called the " Thistle Club " was founded and, curling being a winter sport, was played when the ice was suitable on the Detroit River at the foot of Joseph Campau ; on the bay ; and at the old Recreation Park.

Thus, the first Olympic medals in curling, which at the time was played outside, were awarded for the 1924 Winter Games, with the gold medal won by Great Britain and Ireland, two silver medals by Sweden, and the bronze by France.

On April 4, 1999, the Rockies made history as they played their Opening Day game against the defending National League champion San Diego Padres at Estadio de Beisbol Monterrey in Monterrey, Mexico – marking the first time Major League Baseball opened the regular season outside the United States or Canada.

The game played between teams from Rutgers University and Princeton University, which was called the College of New Jersey at the time, took place on November 6, 1869 at College Field, which is now the site of the College Avenue Gymnasium at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

During that time the English won the Battle of Flodden, an event in which Catherine played an important part.

During his time there, Doppler, along with Franz Unger, played an influential role in the development of young Gregor Mendel, known as the founding father of genetics, who was a student at the University of Vienna from 1851 to 1853.

The first multilateral competition at international level was the 1912 Triangular Tournament, a Test cricket tournament played in England between all three Test-playing nations at the time: England, Australia and South Africa.

The first One-Day International event was played on the fifth day of a rain-aborted Test match between England and Australia at Melbourne in 1971, to fill the time available and as compensation for the frustrated crowd.

Since only one note can be played at a time on each string, the fretting pattern is generally chosen so that notes which are rarely heard together ( such as C and C ) share a string pair.