But most of those daily rainfalls are brief--the city isn't among the leaders in annual inches of precipitation.

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Natural lawns (lawns of nonconventional turf grasses) are adapted to their regional rainfalls, soil types, and climatic conditions.

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Continuous rainfalls had pounded parts of Xianning in Hubei beginning late Thursday, breaking a 200-year record of a massive 11.8 inches of rain in just four hours, leading to flooding.

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The spring brought below-average rainfalls in states such as Illinois and Indiana, and the warmest average temperatures in the Midwest for the first five months of the year on record, according to the Midwestern Regional Climate Center.

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