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What was the difference for the Israelites between living in Egypt with a consistent source of water and living in the promised land where they would have to depend on rainfall?
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The rainfall cycle is very important to to grain agriculture in order to feed the people in the Promised Land. The rainfall cycle is important because the rain can to stored through the water systems for future usage.
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The beginning of the rainfall cycle is also the beginning of the cycle of grain agriculture in ancient Israel. When water is being collected and stored, fields and being plowed and planted.
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With the rain comes the grain-growing cycle. The land is plowed, planted, and grain harvested at the end of the winter, when it starts drying.
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Rainfall in the winter allows the crops to grow. Winter rains allows for summer crops.
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Rain before, during and after the planting of grain crops. No rain, no crops. Barley harvest first, wheat harvest around Pentecost.