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Why do you not run my ranch, with its many thousands of cattle, and shift the pastures by the rain-fall, and pick the bulls, and arrange the bargaining and the selling of the meat to the sailing ships and war vessels and the people who live in the
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Bundelkhand region of central India had suffered 4 year draught, but the current year can be said lucky year for Bundelkhand because the level of rain-fall is more than the average.
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Bundelkhand region of central India had suffered 4 year draught, but the current year can be said lucky year for Bundelkhand because the level of rain-fall is more than the average.
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The rainy season of Tette differs a little from that of some of the other intertropical regions; the quantity of rain-fall being considerably less.
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004
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The crossing is called the “Seven Corpse Ford,” because a large party of farmers, riding homeward from Middleton, banded together and perhaps well primed through fear of a famous highwayman, came down to this place on a foggy evening, after heavy rain-fall.
Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004
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The warm, humid westerly winds, driven against the lofty and cool mountain sides, have their moisture suddenly and rapidly condensed, and the rain-fall on their western slope is found by measurement to be prodigious, reaching as high as sixty-five cubic inches for the year, being equal in quantity to that falling in many tropical districts, and greatly exceeding that of any other portion of the United States.
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The months of March and April rack very low in their rain-fall in comparison with any point situated along the same thermal lines; while
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In contrast, the amount of rain falling annually in this State is shown by these statistics to be much below that of any lying east of the Mississippi, in the variable-climatic district; and, indeed, below that of every other in the entire Union, excepting Nebraska, which averages about the same amount of rain-fall, though without the same amount of dryness and elasticity, which are such notable features in the atmosphere of the former State.
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This table gives a sweep of country from ocean to ocean, and exhibits the rain-fall of the three climatic divisions very faithfully.
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The humidity of the atmosphere is not always determined by the rain-fall.
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