This year was supposed to be "warmer than usual with rainfall average or below average".
Unfortunately, even once the rivers swell with rainfall, this is not the last time the market will worry about this issue.
Next year's Super Bowl will tilt the balance toward teams that have learned to deal with rainfall, uneven footing and a stiff breeze.
This new, drought-resistant variety requires only one-eighth as much irrigation as conventional wheat, and in some deserts can be cultivated with rainfall alone.
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.
Dr. OVERPECK: It's kind of scary in the sense that it'll be very hard to manage the response of this change because we really don't know in any one location exactly how climate's going to change, particularly with rainfall.
Aberdeenshire was also faced with less rainfall per year and slightly more weekly sunshine hours than the Scottish average.
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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.
"There has been, over the last few years, some specific planning for the possibility of a significant hurricane in New Orleans with a lot of rainfall, with water rising in the levees and water overflowing the levees, " he told reporters Saturday.
This is being prepared with data from every rainfall station across the country, together with readings from the UK's 1300 river gauges, plus information about soil moisture.
Flood water began to subside after a weekend that saw Manila hit with its heaviest rainfall in more than 40 years.
So, it doesn't just take the winds, you still have to deal with the heavy rainfall and then the storm surge along the coast.
With an average annual rainfall of 22 feet, this is one of the wettest places on Earth.
She then correlated the data from these visits with estimates of local rainfall made by examining the composition of rocks from nearby caves.
In Bolivia, three big cities, La Paz, Santa Cruz and Cochabamba, all devised schemes to improve chronically deficient water supplies (in a country with above-average rainfall).
"This was very, very intense rainfall, with five inches in 24 hours in some areas, even some of the best defences are going to be overwhelmed, " he added.
Last June heavy flooding hit Aberystwyth and nearby villages with a month's rainfall in 24 hours.
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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Paisley, Renfrewshire, had its highest rainfall in 10 years with 131.7mm and its fewest hours of sun since 2002.
Experts at East Malling Research (EMR) have created versions of the fruit which are better at coping with higher summer temperatures and less rainfall.
The wet weather was forecast to sweep north into the Highlands with a warning in place of heavy rainfall into Friday morning.
The satellite images picked out the right type of afforested land, and topography, which, when combined with other data on soil types, rainfall, and temperature, produced a clear "Loa Loa map" of several African countries, including Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger.
This, as its name suggests, is fitted with instruments such as radars that can detect rainfall directly.
Shaun Counsell said unusually high rainfall throughout the year, along with freezing weather in March, had taken its toll on the Manx roads.
The Environment Agency has issued a flood warning for the River Clyst, saying it had "responded to today's rainfall and snow melt", and with rain forecast throughout the day it could rise further.
People don't easily understand how a small sea level rise can result in bigger storm surges and coastal damage, or how slight changes in ocean temperatures can change global rainfall patterns, leading to droughts and floods with catastrophic economic and societal consequences.
Major flooding has caused chaos on roads in Surrey and West Sussex, with reports of many vehicles being stuck in floodwater after heavy rainfall.
It is not even that there are good reasons to believe that sulphur dioxide dispersed in the stratosphere could drastically disrupt rainfall patterns in ways that could no better be modelled with existing knowledge than next month's cloud cover.
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