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The heavy-type rainfall won't get here until early in the morning.

Philip Gonsalves

Normally, for timber, you plant in the wintertime because that way you have a lot of natural moisture, six months of, hopefully, rainfall to develop a growth system so it can make it through the summer.

Charles Long

It's the amount of runoff, not rainfall itself.

Ted Hart

April and May are going to be very critical around here. If we continue to see below-average rainfall, things could get ugly.

Victor Murphy

We don't expect that rainfall event will restore the lake to any significant level at all, but it may knock down consumption enough to buy us a couple of days or weeks.

Russell Allen

Without the hurricanes, it could have been 14 consecutive months of below-normal rainfall. This past March was one of the driest - if not the driest - Marches on record for a large portion of South Louisiana, and this extremely dry spring weather has persisted through the first half of April, as well.

Jay Grymes

We're still looking at extreme fire danger. Until we get significant rainfall, that's not going to change.

Traci Weaver

It won't do much in the way of rainfall for us. If anything does come out of it, it won't be more than a 10th of an inch.

Matt Bragaw

Don't count out wheat unless it's dead. It all depends on the temperature and the rainfall that we get.

Curtis Thompson

The storm patterns are changing in a short period of time. Since 1995 we've been having good rainfall years.

Mike Di Marco

They are not really big storms as far as having much rainfall.

Steve Mendenhall

The state average is about 11 inches below normal rainfall. There are very few places in the state that have gotten enough rain this year, putting us in a perilous predicament.

Bob Odom

Conditions are dry, and rainfall is needed badly to hold ducks in these areas, as cold weather continues to push them south in large numbers.

Tim White

You had a cool, wet spring that brought about the disease conditions and delayed the bloom by one or two weeks. Then there was the dry summer, just when we needed a good rainfall in August. That lack of rain in July really put a lot of stress on the harvest.

John Miyares

You would expect that with the lack of rainfall. It's pretty dry out there right now.

Dennis Moore

It's really difficult to say (if we'll hit Stage 4), but the rainfall that will keep us from going to Stage 4 has not happened yet. The lake didn't go up very much from the rain we had last weekend.

Steve Massey

With some of the temperatures we've had recently and the isolated rainfall we've had, a good two or three inches of rain widespread across the peanut belt would actually be a very positive thing for us.

John Beasley

Although Arlene is not at hurricane strength, the storm is predicted to cause heavy rainfall, which could cause flooding.

Lea Stokes

In my home state of Western Australia, we've already identified a 25 per cent reduction in rainfall over the last 30 or 40 years. The government has basically put in place close to $2 billion in domestic measures.

Brian Campbell

We're concerned about the very heavy rainfall over most of Florida. We're looking at three or four days of heavy rain down here, accumulations of up to 20 inches. It's not going to be a pleasant time.

Jerry Jarrell

If you look at the spread of the rain in the first 10 days of the year it has been marvelous. We had double the average amount of rainfall in general over the country over that period.

Amelius Muller

It was double the rainfall (than average). I've never been through anything like this.

Bob Giampaoli

It comes down to what the rainfall patterns are.

Jonathan Day

Last year was really phenomenal as far as rainfall goes. This year, total opposite. It's feast or famine.

Victor Murphy

You can see how if this was applied to an industrial area with all that flat space, how much rainfall could be saved.

Roland Cusick

The ground is already saturated from a month of near constant rain. Any heavy rainfall will run off immediately. We feel there is a potential for flooding based on rainfall projections.

Duane Dykema

This is the most dangerous time of year, and we are way behind for rainfall. We've made our preparations. We're asking people to be careful.

Ben Wolcott

In the course of three days we've gone from a deficit (of rainfall) to over two-and-a-half inches positive.

Tom Bird

It doesn't look to be quite as strong as this one we just had, and rainfall totals won't be as high.

Jennifer Lee

We've never had to pump this much water before. We're setting records, and there's no rainfall to help fill the reservoirs.

Dave Marshall

For pretty much the last 38 days, there was significant rainfall going on somewhere in the state.

Derek Wroe

Increased water demands and lack of rainfall are causing the reservoir level to decline faster than we normally see at this point of the dry season.

Brad Baird

The best way of getting rid of the salt is what Mother Nature can do for us. And that's rainfall. We didn't have a record dry winter, but it's been below average.

Steve Linscombe

The heaviest rainfall we're seeing on radar is basically over the Great Lakes and on the U.S. side of the border.

Carolyne Marshall

Our average rainfall is 10 to 12 inches per year, compared to 60 and 80 and 100 inches per year in the (rest) of the country.

Ronald Gastelum

In historical records, when a La Nina occurs, rainfall in Illinois is above normal in March and April, then the bottom falls out in May, June, July and August. We're expecting less-than-normal rainfall for each of those months. That's our best guess for a long-range forecast.

Derek Winstanley

We're more than 4 inches below normal in rainfall this year. There's not a good chance of rain until at least Thursday or Friday.

Richard Nunn

Part of it is due to lack of rainfall.

Sandra Anderson

If we get any rainfall in the next month or so, the recovery may be better than people think it is. The key factor: can we get any timely rainfall?

Dr. Ted Mccollum

The rainfall is going to be a major major issue and it could intensify because it is moving so slow.

Jennifer Pralgo

We have a significant deficit in rainfall, The fire threat remains quite high.

Tony Cristaldi

The area could have really been ready for a landslide because of the amount of rainfall and if there was a minor earthquake, it might have hastened it.

Rene Solidum

Overall, it looks like New Orleans has lucked out in that they didn't get the heaviest rainfall.

Phil Grigsby

We actually had pretty good rainfall the first three months, so if you think about just the past nine months, it's been exceptionally dry.

Robert Potts

Right now, as far as total rainfall amounts are concerned, we are still in the high-normal range.

Jan Null

Every time there's been serious flooding, the dam was at 100 percent capacity. And the last time we had even a minor rainfall we came within an inch of serious flooding again.

Mark House

We were as prepared as we could be for the rainfall with the road barricades, having them ready. There's nothing we can do to hold the rain back, we just deal with it when it gets here.

Patrick Peterson

Normal rainfall is not what we need. We need a wet spell.

Jay Grymes

This is the time of year we statistically get more rainfall.

Pete Snyder

When we plugged in (the data) from that rainfall from the 1996 flood, we achieved an elevation in excess of what actually happened in '96.

Kurt Baumann

In a world with business as usual, in other areas like East Africa where there will be increased rainfall, different health factors will play a role in increased death rates; in this case an increase in malaria.

Martaan De Wit

The city of Austin has world records of rainfall. People aren't aware that Austin is such a prominent place for flooding.

Laura Doyle

No other roads were undermined and there were no major mudslides. Considering the amount of rainfall, things turned out to be in pretty good shape.

Scott Magruder

To only have 35 percent of average rainfall at this time of year is extreme.

Bill Sammler

Despite recent rainfall, precipitation levels over the last two months are below normal in every corner of the commonwealth.

Kathleen Mcginty

Both storms are going to add up to quite an amount of rainfall, some of the heaviest rains we have seen so far this season.

Rick Canepa

The system has moved right up the coast nicely. It was actually pushing rainfall out of this area (Jacksonville).

Steve Letro

Then it could take weeks and months for the rainfall deficit to go away.

Tony Cristaldi

Even if it rains, it's not going to be enough to put any kind of dent in the (rainfall) deficit.

Tony Cristaldi

The sooner it comes out, the better, because forest fires happen all the time, especially when there has been little rainfall.

Freddy Mella

There was a large concentration of rainfall in the north-northwest basin.

Mike Ban

This year is considered 'La Nina' year. That's why we are seeing below normal rainfall and dry weather in Abilene.

Phil Baker

The way the water district has put it, if we do not see a significant improvement in the rainfall, we do expect to hit stage four.

Steve Massey

I would not go to the extent of global desertification, because preventing rainfall in a particular region would leave the vapor in the air and that would eventually rain more elsewhere. So it is more likely that the increased pollution will cause more extreme weather, leading to more droughts in some places and more floods in others.

Daniel Rosenfeld

These were problems they knew about when they designed it. We met with ODOT. Mr. (Jason) Stephens attended a meeting in Chillicothe and we pointed out the problems and the problems haven't gone away, ... We have flash flooding with less rainfall; property is being damaged and township roads are being flooded.

Charles Fuller

Titan probably has episodic periods of rainfall or massive seepages of liquid from the ground.

Steve Wall

This is going to be a major rainfall event before and ahead of the storm.

Trisha Wallace

A lot of the rain ran off and a week later, we were dry again. We didn't get rainfall that was spread out through the growing year, which is what really hurt us.

Perry Neal

That is a healthy, healthy dose of rainfall. No doubt it's going to help the drought conditions, at least temporarily.

Alan Moller

This is the area where liquid or a wet surface has most likely been present, now or in the recent past. Titan probably has episodic periods of rainfall or massive seepages of liquid from the ground.

Steve Wall

Joplin has been the bull's eye for the drought in Missouri, where 11 of the past 12 months have received below normal rainfall. The precipitation deficit is now approaching 20 inches, or less than 60 percent of normal.

Pat Guinan