Quote:Do you know what happens with evaporation during the winter? It settles during the cooler periods of the day and night on other places. Not much of it blows away to the ocean. In fact, the great high-pressure systems have a tendency to push moist air onto the coast from the east and the north to the interior.
Ah, so it blows into the desert, not out to sea? That's great.
Quote:I don't know what country you are from, but I have lived in the driest parts of the country, and I know that the flora can handle weak rainfall years. It is the crop growing areas that need the rainfall.
So we would be one step short of a dustbowl?
Quote:Just for clarification, are you saying that a month's worth of rain in a day per month would also see drought from evaporation?
No. I think that is normal. In the really heavy rainfall events, a lot is lost to runoff.