Agriculture employs a large part of the workforce, and dates and olives are cultivated in the drier areas.
It suggests that if current trends continued, the drier conditions would favour deciduous, canopy species at the expense of other trees.
The drier your martini, the less vermouth you flick in the glass.
If preventing fungal attack were the explanation, he argues, young red leaves ought to be more common in a forest's wet understorey, where fungi thrive, than in the drier canopy.
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Today, Anantawan combines classroom teaching with the drier but no less important task of developing arts curricula for kids with special needs -- not just physical disabilities, but cerebral palsy, Down syndrome and other conditions.
By the 78th floor, the air was clearer, the stairs drier, and the lights were on.
At Benromach, also just outside of Forres, enjoy a tasting tutorial with a pour of the award-winning, richly-flavoured Benromach Single Malt in the old Drier House, now the Malt Whisky Centre.
I'm confident we will get three full days in Rajkot, and the atmosphere feels drier and the pitch looks a belter.
According to Trading Standards, the manufacturer of the tumble drier that Catherine owned did everything it could to tell people that the product was faulty.
The players loved them: They clung to the body like a second layer of skin, yet wicked away perspiration, keeping the shirts drier and lighter.
Professor Enquist said the species that favoured such conditions were deciduous, canopy trees, and if the trend of drier conditions continued into the future then it would change the characteristics of tropical forests.
Testers generally agreed that the cupcakes looked good, but that they were drier than the others.
It also carries the risk of producing an inaccurate picture of the overall distribution of moisture, as the spots chosen for sampling may be considerably damper or drier than the soil just a few metres away.
But in the winter, when air from outside is heated and becomes drier, the flu virus survives well.
As demand for power peaked last summer and the region experienced drier than normal conditions, California utilities scrambled to buy enough power.
Republican Allen has a folksier-style compared to the stiffer, drier Democratic Robb.
At the beginning of the summer it was even drier, with drought conditions for some of the Outer Hebrides.
Heavy rains could yet stave off the worst of the impacts, but forecasters are predicting drier than average conditions for the next few months.
This shift created a stronger jet stream aimed towards the northwest part of the U.S., bringing drier and warmer conditions across the southern and eastern portion of the country.
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Cook's concern is that the proposed desalted water will be piped to drier southern Orange County where the aquifer isn't as large and where development is booming.
She said further drainage work would be done once the area had some drier weather.
When weather is drier, the rats seem to love living under the soil, and can dig deeper than water can seep.
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With the sudden arrival of cooler, drier and less predictable seasons, early human attempts at agriculture in the Near East ceased, and people returned to nomadic hunting and gathering.
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She said that this year's conditions were partly caused by a move to a negative phase of the North Atlantic Oscillation which would be likely to lead to more frequent cold, drier winters - like the 1960s - and also wetter summers for 10-20 years.
Demand for corn is such that more land is also being ploughed up in drier regions of the Great Plains states to the west of the corn belt, where irrigation in required, increasing water demand further.
The Met Office said this suggested that spring overall would be slightly drier than average - but not as dry as the springs of 2010 and 2011.
Parts of the Great Basin are hotter and drier than they were ten years ago.
The rainy season has been anything but rainy, and the coming months are traditionally even drier.
The Met Office said it was expecting drier and brighter weather in Wales while remaining cold with biting winds.
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