It is a steep granite island drowning in 320 inches of rainfall a year.
Aberdeenshire was also faced with less rainfall per year and slightly more weekly sunshine hours than the Scottish average.
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He said the rainfall this year over drought-hit Maharashtra and Karnataka states is expected to be better than last year.
According to preliminary government forecasts, the country is expected to receive normal rainfall this year and this could cool food prices.
Park guide Marthinus Sky explains that Tsitsikamma is a Khoe tribe word, which translates as 'many waters', and that the area gets over 1, 200mm of rainfall each year.
Residents in Aberdeenshire also enjoy a relatively good climate with less rainfall per year that the average for Scotland, and, on average, one hour more sunshine per week.
Shaun Counsell said unusually high rainfall throughout the year, along with freezing weather in March, had taken its toll on the Manx roads.
"We've had unprecedented rainfall throughout the year, " he said.
When we woke up in the morning, there was intermittent heavy rain and I thought that it is seasonal - indeed the rainfall throughout this year has been quite heavy, unlike during the last three years.
Last year too much rainfall led to bad harvests, and this year more drought-like conditions could produce the same outcome again.
Last year heavy rainfall overwhelmed the Chao Phraya river system, on which Bangkok sits, and the Thai capital only just avoided a catastrophe.
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Sandwiched between two of the world's most famous deserts - the Namib and the Kalahari - Namibia is the driest country in sub-Saharan Africa, with less than 370mm of rainfall on average each year.
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In a year of average rainfall, its output should be around 180GWh of electricity.
Large areas of Africa receive little rainfall for much of the year, so even though Africa covers 20% of the world's land area, it only has 9% of global freshwater resources.
There is no threat from El Nino, an abnormal warming of surface ocean waters which disrupted even distribution of last year's monsoon rainfall, the official told The Wall Street Journal.
Weather officials said they are hopeful for normal rains as there is no threat of El Nino, an abnormal warming of surface ocean waters that disrupted even distribution of last year's monsoon rainfall.
The move comes despite Dumfries and Galloway having had record rainfall during a number of periods last year.
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"This year, the amount of rainfall in the area diminished significantly, " said Javier Ramirez, head of the Cutzamala system.
Temperatures in Death Valley have been known to reach a hundred and thirty degrees, and rainfall averages less than two inches a year.
The catchment area is being increased by the creation of a pair of reservoirs, the first of which, due to be finished next year, will mean the rainfall-catchment acreage will extend to two-thirds of the island's total land area.
Although this did not break any records, meteorologists said 2012 was a "one in 20 year event" in terms of rainfall.
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The company said rainfall across the UK in the first half of the year had been at its lowest level for since 1964.
About 39 million tonnes of sewage is discharged into the river every year from 57 overflows, whenever there is heavy rainfall.
Our main concerns are for next year because one of three long range forecasts for rainfall are predicting a drier than average start.
In northern Ohio, Akron is similarly dry, with rainfall of 8.2 inches compared with 20 inches a year ago and 12.9 inches in a normal year.
This year was supposed to be "warmer than usual with rainfall average or below average".
Further evidence of a 60-year cycle is referenced in ancient Sanskrit texts among observed monsoon rainfall cycles.
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Rainfall in India as a whole is 20% below the 50-year average and, with the monsoon season half over, India is facing the possibility of a full-blown drought in some regions.
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