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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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There is rainfall in the winter months that allow grain to be planted and grow. In the summer months, the crops are harvested.
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The beginning of the grain agriculture is in the winter during the rainy season. The grain fields are plowed and planted.
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Early rain starts in October so November and December are time to sow barley first, then wheat. When the end of Winter around March, barley was harvested first, then about fifty days the harvest of wheat is completed. So Passover is in March and Shavuot is in May (Pentecost). Early rain, late rain; and early grain (barley), late grain (wheat) kind of rhythm together.
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When the rains come then the grain agricultural cycle can begin. In ancient Israel, this was in the Winter season between October and April. There was lower humidity and pressure, and regular cycles of precipitation, low pressure.
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Rain falls in the winter months and this is when grain crops are planted and tended.