The recent wet spell could also increase the number of surviving ticks, said state Health Department spokeswoman Claire Pospisil.
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Local cricket officials were worried at the prospects of the wet spell ruining Kandy's first major cricket match in a year.
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The region has been under a wet spell for the past week, with heavy showers every afternoon leaving the ground waterlogged.
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Kandy and its surrounding areas have been hit by a wet spell for the past week, with heavy showers every afternoon leaving the ground waterlogged.
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This suggests that the Martian climate at the Noachian epoch time of formation was characterized by a series of short, wet spells rather than a sustained wet climate.
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"We acknowledge that we will be confronted with more severe dry and wet spells, " said Brigitte Seegers, a spokeswoman for the Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management.
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The wet spell of the early 1890s ended earliest in the area between Adelaide region and Western District of Victoria, but only about average in the drier areas further inland.
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Heavy rainfalls were recorded during the five-day wet spell from 5 September to 9 September 2012 in the provinces of Sindh and Punjab based on data from the Pakistan Meteorological Department.
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In April 2011, Quetta saw two major wet spells, the first one commenced from 7 April to 12 April, while the second one started from 14 April to 17 April intermittently.
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Whilst he had improved Warwickshire's fortunes in the unusually hot and dry weather of May, a brief wet spell in June put them back to mid-table by the end of that month.
