Sentence examples for devastating rainfall from inspiring English sources

Instead of following its usual path to the north of Scotland, the jet stream shifted south for several weeks, bringing the coldest March in 100 years to Britain, as well as devastating rainfall and floods to central Europe and record high temperatures to Finland and western Russia.

Six fatalities were reported from devastating rainfall in Jamaica from the depression.

As meteorologists and climate change experts have observed over the past several hurricane seasons in the northern hemisphere, ever-rising global temperatures are contributing to increasingly devastating rainfall amounts and storm power.

"This is the second most devastating rainfall event in this area's history after Tropical Storm Allison" in 2001, Walter said, "based on the amount of rain that fell and where it fell".

Global weather conditions associated with El Niño are posing a serious threat to millions of vulnerable people, particularly in rural communities, with scarce rainfall devastating crops and causing water shortages in some regions, while other parts of the world are seeing flooding caused by above-average precipitation.

Tree planting and other natural approaches have prevented flooding at Pickering in North Yorkshire over Christmas, at a time when heavy rainfall caused devastating flooding across the region.

One approach little mentioned by the review is to use natural methods to slow the flow of water and tree planting has been shown to have prevented flooding at Pickering in North Yorkshire over Christmas, at a time when heavy rainfall caused devastating flooding across the region.

That would double the cited impacts to devastating 20% to 40% reductions in rainfall in those areas and 40% to 60% reductions in the cited crops.

If an atmospheric river hits one of these regions head-on, as it did in Cumbria in 2009, the resulting intense rainfall can be devastating.

Devastating changes to sea levels, rainfall, water supplies, weather systems and crop yields are increasingly likely before the end of the century, scientists will warn tomorrow.

Heatwaves have scorched China, Russia, Australia, the Middle East and parts of South America in the last two years, while climate change made the UK's record December rainfall, which caused devastating floods, 50-75% more likely.