wet summer
collocation in Englishmeaningsofwetandsummer
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wet
adjective
uk/wet/us/wet/
covered in water or ...
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summer
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈsʌm.ər/us/ˈsʌm.ɚ/
the season of the year between spring and autumn when the weather is warmest, lasting from June to September north of the equator and from December to March south of ...
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(Definition ofwetandsummerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It seems probable that levels of humidity necessary for egg survival will prevail only during thewetsummerseason.
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The highest prevalence of sporocyst infections occurred in 1974 (table 3) following awetsummer(fig. 2).
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However, germination flushes following heavy rains occurred during thewetsummerof 1967.
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Trematode sporocyst infections increased afterwetsummerand warm winter conditions and declined in hot, dry periods.
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If this speculation is correct, then in regions with a dry winter and awetsummer, the species should germinate better at higher than at low temperatures.
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Even in awetsummerthere might be a shortage in areas dependent on underground supplies, if the preceding winter had been dry.
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I am sure, after thiswetsummer, that damage is occurring and that it is of vital importance that something should be done.
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In my constituency, as a result of thewetsummerof 1963, many driers were put in on medium-sized farms.
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It was a verywetsummerthen, as many of us may well remember.
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It was awetsummer, and from one's experience of camps in this country one knows that they are more often wet than dry.
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Certainly, if we have awetsummer, it would destroy a great deal of the public enthusiasm which this year it has undoubtedly created.
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I only hope that he has not had previous information about an extremelywetsummer.
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Fortunately it was a fine summer but if it had happened to be awetsummer, one might have had a disgraceful situation.
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Much depends on the weather, a dry summer or awetsummer, and the condition of the market varies from time to time.
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Owing to the verywetsummerthere was extensive disease among potatoes, and large numbers of farmers—some more, some less—had their crops severely damaged.
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Last year 16,000 people took advantage of the bowling greens despite the fact that we experienced a verywetsummer.
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The dullwetsummerand autumn of 1965 generally depressed crop output and increased the cost of the harvest.
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I hope that we shall not be told that we had awetsummerafter a hard spring, because the weather does not make all that difference.
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The loss of only a week's revenue is financially damaging to many smaller circuses, and an unseasonablywetsummer, for instance, could devastate the whole industry.
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The problem with last autumn's cauliflower crop was that with the cold,wetsummerfollowed by a mild, early autumn, two months' crop was jammed into one month.
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