21.   According to the priests, the choice of hay presages average rainfall for the year, while beans mean food will be plentiful.

22.   Desertification will be worsened by reductions in average annual rainfall, especially in southern, North and West Africa.

23.   Early forecasts had called for average or slightly above average rainfall this year, but even that might be enough to send rivers over their banks.

24.   Forecasts for this rainy season, which runs through March, call for average or slightly above average rainfall.

25.   Last year, thousands of residents in this U.S. commonwealth endured months of water rationing because of less than average rainfall.

26.   Reductions in average annual rainfall, especially in southern, northern and western Africa, could create new desert areas.

27.   Since Monday, more than the average total rainfall for February has fallen in the Moselle and Sarre regions, forecasters said.

28.   States across northern Mexico have been suffering from prolonged droughts and have experienced less than half of the average rainfall, according to Notimex reports.

29.   The average rainfall for the autumn is nine inches.

30.   The average rainfall in the Loiza River basin has been two inches in the past few hours.