今年の夏は少雨による水不足が懸念される一方で、局地的なゲリラ豪雨は昨年の3.5倍になるとの予想も出ている。の英語

On one hand, water shortages are expected this summer because of lower rainfall, but on the other hand, large rainstorms are 3.5 times more likely locally than last year.

Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil's biggest annual summer festival, was held from Feb. 5 to 9.

More than 100,000 people were killed there when a 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit the country on Jan. 12.

The hurricane has caused the worst damage of any natural disaster in the U.S. since a hurricane struck Texas in 1900 and killed 6,000 to 12,000 people.

For example, in the Western Pacific Ocean near Japan, the proportion of intense hurricanes between 1975 and 1989 was 25 percent.

Although rain forests make up only two percent of the earth's surface, over half the world's wild plant, animal and insect species live there.

Although rainforests make up only two percent of the earth's surface, over half the world's wild plant, animal and insect species live there.

The Goldengate Bank's monetary survey shows that their fixed deposits increased to800 million, up 57 percent from510 million for the previous year.

In New Orleans, Louisiana, levees on the nearby lake and canals gave way in a few places and 80 percent of the city was flooded.

Early on the morning of May 27, a strong earthquake with a magnitude of 6.3 struck the Special Region of Yogyakarta in the central part of Java, Indonesia.

a river in western Georgia that flows generally south to join the Chattahoochee River at the Florida border where they form the Apalachicola River

a river that rises in northeastern Wyoming and flows through Montana and South Dakota to join the Missouri River in North Dakota

Many drilling rigs and oil platforms were lost in the hurricane and the area now can produce less than half of its usual oil production.

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology examined hurricanes that occurred between 1970 and 2004 in the Pacific, North Atlantic and Indian Oceans.

As compared with last summer, we haven't had so much rain this year.

There isn't as much rain this year compared to last summer.

Compared to last summer, we haven't had so much rain this year.

As compared with last summer we haven't had so much rain this year.

a severe tropical cyclone usually with heavy rains and winds moving a 73-136 knots (12 on the Beaufort scale)

The popular movie star Arnold Schwarzenegger, 56, announced that he would run for governor of California in a recall election to be held on Oct. 7.

a river that rises in northern Colorado and flows northward into Wyoming and then eastward and southeastward through Nebraska where it joins the South Platte to form the Platte River

a river that rises in the Catskills in southeastern New York and flows southward along the border of Pennsylvania with New York and New Jersey to northern Delaware where it empties into Delaware Bay

There will probably be little rain this summer.

It likely won't rain much this summer.

The Plitvice Lakes National Park in Croatia, a UNESCO World Heritage site, may be suffering from the effects of global warming.

the southwestern region of the United States generally including New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, Nevada, California, and sometimes Utah and Colorado

the region of northwest Africa comprising the Atlas Mountains and the coastlands of Morocco and Algeria and Tunisia

river that rises in northwestern Georgia and flows southwest through central Alabama to join the Coosa River near Montgomery and form the Alabama River

On May 10, the lighting ceremony of the Olympic flame for this summer's London Games was held at the ruins of the Temple of Hera in Olympia, Greece.

State police spokeswoman Janet Welp says the truck wound up crashing into a bridge railing along Interstate 30.