Rainfall totals were above five centimeters in the normally dry region, shattering decades-old records.

总降雨量在通常干燥的区域超过五公分，破了几十年的纪录。

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Because it is located in a very hot and dry region, the Dead Sea loses much water through evaporation, causing its level to fluctuate during the year.

因为它处于一个非常炎热和干燥的地区，死海由于蒸发损失掉大量的水，导致其水平面一年到头不断波动。

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The region is too dry for plants to grow.

这地区干燥得草木不生。

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The Los Angeles area has received less than 2 inches of rain since January, making the bone-dry region "definitely ripe for these fires, " said William Patzert, a NASA climatologist.

CNN: Fire rages in California even as winds die down

However, this seemingly dry and arid region in southern Israel is now home to a burgeoning wine route, thanks to a group of pioneering 21st-century farmers and their use of computerized drip irrigation.

BBC: The Negev desert wine route

Belgian socialist MEP Veronique de Keyser claimed that the region could dry up by the end of 2011.

BBC: Lower Jordan River