I stress this pattern because July has been a wet month, a dramatic reversal from the driest June on record. |
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We are at the tail end of what is officially the driest autumn and winter on record. |
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However, even this broad pattern is not universal, for giraffes, impalas, and kongoni have their peak of births at the driest time of year. |
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However, even this broad pattern is not universal, for giraffe, impala, and kongoni have their peak of births at the driest time of year. |
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Black oak, red oak, chinquapin oak, bitternut hickory, and pignut hickory are common near hill summits, where the driest conditions prevail. |
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The second week of May will be one of the driest of the year and one of the sunniest. |
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With the Riesling, this makes for one of the driest wines in France, in no way resembling the flowery, grapey Riesling of the German Rhine. |
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Even in the Mallee, the driest region in the state, water pipelines have ensured reasonable cover of grass. |
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They entered these great thirstlands at the driest time of year, drawn by what they perceived as large lakes of sparkling water on the horizon. |
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This last and driest of Shakespeare's tragedies is, in some ways, his most unusual. |
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It is the driest, flattest, most desiccated, infertile and climatically aggressive of all the inhabited continents. |
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December to April are the driest seasons, but because it has a tropical climate, there may be one or two rainfalls. |
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Plans are being drawn up to pipe water around Scotland as the country heads for its driest spring on record. |
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At school, maths was the driest, most uncreative subject for me. |
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Besides the unseasonable warmth, Winnipeg registered its second driest and third least snowfall in November. |
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One of only four aquatic frogs known to live in Australia, this frog inhabits the continent's driest areas, hunting in gilgais after rain for insects, shrimps and tadpoles. |
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Jordan is one of the world's driest countries, with water scarcity a major inhibitor to growth and a serious threat to the agriculture sector. |
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This exceptionally rich, smooth cream protects, nourishes and relieves even the driest and most damaged hands. |
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The summer itself was the driest since 1995, the year of water rationing. |
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Three years ago, as Texas grappled with its driest year on record, Governor Rick Perry declared a weekend of prayer for rain. |
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Stretching towards Peru and Bolivia, it lays claim to being the driest desert in the world, with only 0.01mm of rain falling in an average year. |
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These trees would live in myriad habitats from soggy coasts to the driest deserts, deep valleys to the shoulders of alpine peaks, backyards to the back of beyond. |
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The country's attraction lies in its extremes: the 15 million yearold Atacama Desert in the north is the driest desert in the world. |
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Thanks to its emollient and anti-inflammatory properties, it quickly relieves feelings of irritation and restructures the very driest of skin. |
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The Balm of Olympe is the balm par excellence for the driest, most devitalized skin. |
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Regina, Saskatchewan, is a city of 200 000 situated in the middle of the vast southern prairies, the driest major region of Canada. |
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The driest part of the province, the west central region, is in the toughest shape. |
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The driest ecoregion is the Northern Uplands Ecoregion, which lies in the rain shadow of the highlands of the Gaspé region. |
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As a result, these are the driest forests in Madagascar and this is the region popularly referred to as the spiny desert. |
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A cautious cat sidled along close-pressed to the houses, jumping puddles, and ever alert to find the driest places. |
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An unscented, natural treatment for face and body, it nourishes and protects even the most delicate skins and the driest lips. |
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Its destination: the coldest, driest and windiest place on the planet, a continent as large as the United States and Mexico combined. |
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In Canada, the driest and windiest region is west-central Canada, and this is also where fire is most frequent. |
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Although this region is one of the driest areas of the country, the river makes the growing of high-value cash crops highly feasible. |
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Take the driest, stringiest cut of meat and turn it into a stroganoff. |
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Montreal's Dorval weather station recorded its driest April ever as well as a record 35-day rainless spell in the summer. |
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The world's driest desert is Earth's most Mars-like environment, with its vast salt flats and coloured lagoons. |
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Underlying demand was much higher than we expected, and sales appear to have been bolstered by the driest March weather for six years. |
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As one of the driest years for decades, last year was indeed exceptional, and unless the heavens open for long periods this winter, restrictions could follow. |
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Dublin's sheltered location on the east coast makes it the driest place in Ireland, receiving only about half the rainfall of the west coast. |
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Monthly rainfall tends to be highest in autumn and early winter and lowest in the summer months, with July often being the driest month. |
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Z is for a quick zizz, which is what everyone exhibiting at Chelsea will need after months of sleepless nights worrying about the effect of cold and drought on their plants in the worst winter and driest spring for decades. |
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She stands in the driest part of the playground and uses her finger to trace the streams of disease-ridden water as they flow across the road in small hand-dug trenches. |
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The battler spirit has enabled Australians to survive and prosper in the driest inhabited continent on earth, full of the most poisonous snakes, the largest crocodiles and the most terrifying sea-creatures. |
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Look no further, Coconut Sublime Conditioner is guaranteed to soften the kinkiest curl, moisturize the driest lock, and detangle the most unruly tresses. |
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The ITCZ follows the annual migration of the Sun and reaches its most northerly position during the Southern Hemisphere's winter, which is the driest period for most of tropical South America. |
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There are variations of sweetness available' brut is the driest, sec medium and demi-sec is sweet. |
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It comes in an elegant and glamorous case, its texture melts into the skin and its formula enriched with royal jelly offers the driest skins absolute comfort. |
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The main styles of sherries, listed from driest and palest to sweetest and darkest are fino, manzanilla, amontillado, oloroso, cream, and Pedro Ximénez. |
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At an altitude of 3,500 metres, it looks down on the Atacama desert, the driest place on earth, and on each side snow-capped volcanic peaks stretch away for hundreds of kilometres to the north and south. |
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China is hoping for a shale-gas revolution but does not have enough water for it since most of the gas reserves are in the driest parts of the country. |
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The TWDB forecasts a total statewide shortfall of 8.3m acre-feet by 2060, because the regions that have enough water cannot simply pipe it to the driest places. |
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This is the driest region with, sometimes, a two month rainy season. |
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Karezes, as they are known here, wind through some of the driest parts of the province, traditionally enabling farmers to grow food for their families, and for market. |
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There are calls for scattered showers through the Midwest, but it remains far from certain whether the driest areas will get a drink, most notably the important soybean state of Illinois. |
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Eritrea is located in one of the driest parts of Africa and its population of approximately 3.5 million includes an estimated 1.4 million semi-nomadic or agro-pastoralists. |
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Australia is the driest of all the continents. |
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In order to gain some insight into what happened, we need only bear the following in mind: last winter was the driest of the century and last December and January were the wettest in living memory. |
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Poor and erratic rainfall characterized much of the first half of 2009 in Eritrea, a country located in one of the driest parts of Africa and where seasonal rains are vital for subsistence. |
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Spray on liberally, concentrating on end sections where hair is driest. |
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It is driest in the east and warmest in the south, which is closest to the European mainland. |
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The summer days are relatively long, and May to August is the driest period. |
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The driest months are usually April, May and June, and Wales experiences fewer summer thunderstorms than England. |
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The summer days are relatively long and May to August is the driest period. |
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With the driest naivete he takes the modern shopkeeper, especially the English shopkeeper, as the normal man. |
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Egypt is the driest and the sunniest country in the world, and most of its land surface is desert. |
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This adaptation enables lizards to thrive in some of the driest deserts on earth. |
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Antarctica, on average, is the coldest, driest, and windiest continent, and has the highest average elevation of all the continents. |
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The driest and coldest areas are in the northeast, known as the Salado because of its saltwater lakes. |
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Also, the winter of 2010 was the warmest and driest recorded in more than 60 years. |
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In the driest weather good hoeing procures moisture to the roots of plants, though the ignorant and incurious fancy it lets in the drought. |
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On average, July is the driest month, but summer thunderstorms can occasionally deposit more than the month's mean rainfall in one day. |
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The Consul air acclimatizer to improve the quality of the environment and the health of those who live in one of the driest regions of Brazil. |
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The Atacama Desert in northern Chile is the driest place on Earth. |
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One of the driest sherries around, this is also the top-seller. |
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The summer of 1887 was the driest for years, with stocks falling to 14 days' supply in early August, and the water supply consequently being cut off from 6 pm to 6 am. |
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The wettest and driest months tend to be January and August respectively. |
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Afterwards, the second pasture should be treated in the same manner, and the rest in course, feeding the wettest pasture after the driest, that the soil may be less potched. |
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The Tanezrouft is one of the harshest regions on Earth as well as one of the hottest and driest parts of the Sahara, with no vegetation and very little life. |
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Rainfall can be quite variable, but the wettest months on average are September to November and the driest months on average are February and March. |
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March to June tend to be the driest months, with October to January the wettest, but at low levels there is relatively little difference between months. |
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Its sheltered location makes it one of the driest areas in Scotland. |
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This can occur in some of the driest places on earth, like Death Valley. |
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