Sentence examples for Prolonged rainfall from inspiring English sources

The Save Our Spotland campaign was set up in 2006 because the drainage was so nonexistent that any spell of prolonged rainfall put games at risk.

He said the main problem in the south-west was that the ground was already saturated after prolonged rainfall, making the risk of surface flooding more likely.

The island's rain gauge, at the airstrip in the south, tends to bear him out: it shows no trend towards heavier or more prolonged rainfall over the past 25 years.

The latest editions of API 2000 and ISO 28300 standards lack an explicit formulation for the required in-breathing to compensate for vapor condensation, caused by a prolonged rainfall, which is the main topic of this paper.

Modern Japanese towns and cities have been built to withstand earthquakes of magnitudes that would cause significant damage and loss of life in other parts of the world, but the floods have exposed serious flaws when it comes to heavy and prolonged rainfall.

Hurricane Harvey (2017) is a recent real world example of the danger of prolonged rainfall associated with a storm.

Landslides induced by high-intensity or prolonged rainfalls constitute a major risk factor in Nigeria especially because they have generally been poorly defined in the past.

During periods of anomalous heavy and prolonged rainfalls that favor the breeding of competent mosquito vectors, Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) can cause widespread epidemics in livestock in the absence of high vaccination coverage.

This corresponds to the prolonged peak rainfall with a large rainfall as shown in Fig. 4d.

During periods of prolonged high rainfall, the level of groundwater rises to the surface, causing flooding.

This means that an anomalous pattern, which has an indistinct dry season and a prolonged peak rainfall shown by C4, has appeared frequently since the late 1990s.