So for all these years I was thinking about having a tarp, very much like in baseball or Wimbledon, that would diminish the rain delay by an incredible amount of time".
The rise in frequency of the heaviest rains (the top one percent of downpours) was accompanied by diminishing light rains, the scientists reported.
The noise and rain diminished, but the water kept rising.
Then the rain diminished until all that was left were scattered clicks from the drops falling from the pines.
Crowds, though diminished by the rain, stared as motorcades passed on the city's wet streets, carrying a current president, a former president and a future president.
The capacity crowd at Centre Court, which had not diminished through two rain delays, continually roared with delight or surprise and took turns chanting each combatant's first name, which is not the way these things usually work at proper Wimbledon.
Given the changing global climate, coupled with expected increase in evapotranspiration due to increased temperatures, the ASALs are expected to experience frequent climatic extremes, increased aridity, increased water stress, diminished yields from rain-fed agriculture and increased food insecurity and malnutrition (Thornton and Lipper 2014).
Last summer, towns around the state struggled to get by on diminishing water supplies, praying for fall rains, which came intermittently but made no difference.
Is anyone's bonus diminished because of shoddy rain management?
After lunch, the rain had diminished to a steady downpour, causing Barry to remark, "Aren't we lucky?" Had I been married to him and had we been traveling alone, I would have torn his head off after such a comment.
