Exploration & description/Starts of rains with dry spells

The blue lines in the graph show the years with dry spell exceeding 10 days within the first 30 days after the ´Start of Rains´. These years correspond to those years when the farmer may have had to replant.

The analysis went further (not shown here) by defining different lengths of dry spells at different times during the growing season, particularly round the period of flowering. No evidence of any significant change in recent years was found.