Sentence examples for Sustained rainfall from inspiring English sources
The hope, for water companies at least, is for sustained rainfall over the coming weeks.
The floods are the result of exceptional and sustained rainfall across southern Africa, the heaviest since records were first kept more than a century ago.
Unless sustained rainfall arrives to top up reservoirs, the "temporary use ban" will apply from 5 August to customers in Merseyside, Lancashire, Greater Manchester and Cumbria, with the exception of Carlisle and north-east Cumbria's Eden District.
When a hurricane like Florence or Harvey sits over an area with intense or sustained rainfall rates that is a recipe for flooding.
"It will take a much longer period of sustained rainfall for the groundwater to recover in chalk, which is the UK's primary aquifer," says Dr Adrian Butler, a reader in subsurface hydrology at Imperial College London.
With Harvey, he said, forecasters were stressing that the more serious threat was long-term, sustained rainfall — a point he felt was lost on some residents and local officials.
Many experts are warning that it is probably too late to prevent crop output from declining, even with a sustained improvement in rainfall.
"Scottish Water is also continuing to carefully monitor and manage reservoir levels and look at alternative sources of water". The publicly-owned company said that a recent burst of rain had not resolved the issue as a sustained period of heavy rainfall was required to start replenishing the reservoirs.
Linsley et al. (1959) defined drought as a sustained period of time without significant rainfall.
To determine whether higher and more sustained SM content modulates the effects of rainfall amount and timing on faecal moisture (FM) and development of H. contortus and T. colubriformis to infective third stage larvae (L3), a climate-controlled chamber experiment was conducted.
The average temperature T, two-minute maximum sustained wind speed S g, daily total rainfall R, and daily number of lightning strikes n LS are the four influential weather factors which will be considered in this study.
