drought Summary and Overview

From the middle of May to about the middle of August the land of Israel is dry. It is then the "drought of summer" (Gen. 31:40; Ps. 32:4), and the land suffers (Deut. 28:23: Ps. 102:4), vegetation being preserved only by the dews (Hag. 1:11). (See DEW T0001026.)

DROUGHT . From the end of April to September in the land of Judaea is "the drought of summer." The grass is sometimes completely withered, Ps 102:4, and all the land and the creatures upon it suffer, and nothing but the copious dew of the night preserves the life of any living thing. Hag 1:11. The heat is at times excessive. Near Cana, in Galilee, in July, the thermometer, in a gloomy recess under ground, perfectly shaded, stood at 100° Fahrenheit at noon. For a more full account of the climate, see Palestine.