Lyons Regional Library

Instead of grumbling about the rain, two little girls enjoy how it makes shiny black streets, forms fun puddles, and sounds like tap dancers on the roof of their bus.

The children arrive on the first day of school and build a mud structure to be their classroom for the next nine months until the rainy season comes and washes it all away.

"In her latest gorgeously photo-illustrated nonfiction picture book, celebrated author April Pulley Sayre sheds new light on the wonders of rain, from the beauty of a raindrop balanced on a leaf to the amazing, never-ending water cycle that keeps our planet in perfect ecological balance."--

Cynthia Barnett's Rain begins four billion years ago with the torrents that filled the oceans, and builds to the storms of climate change. It weaves together science--the true shape of a raindrop, the mysteries of frog and fish rains--with the human story of our ambition to control rain, from ancient rain dances to the 2,203 miles of levees that attempt to straitjacket the Mississippi River. As climate change upends rai nfall patterns and unleashes...

On a rainy day, everyone on the farm stays inside except the cows, who enjoy the rain, mud, and wind.

This study represents an attempt to come to grips with the meteorological conditions associated with the Northeast region individual precipitation patterns.

Friends Elephant and Piggie are playing outside when it starts to rain, and then they must decide what to do.

Thirty-four years (1936-1969) of daily rainfall occurrence and total amounts for Douala, Cameroun have been analyzed by means of four different techniques, namely: simple Markov chain, depth-duration-frequency, Gumbel extreme value, and variance spectrum.