"excessive rain" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you are describing a situation in which there is more rain than usual. For example, "The town was devastated by the excessive rain of the monsoon season."
Such a rule is occasionally agreed to during PGA Tour events when excessive rain has made a course nearly unplayable.
Later that day he read in the Post that 2 air-raid sirens on the lower East Side had somehow been triggered by the excessive rain.
Droughts and in places excessive rain have produced sporadic grain shortages; some scientists link such extremes in weather to global warming and the rising use of fossil fuel.
The secretary of agriculture, Dan Glickman, yesterday declared 35 of New York State's counties agricultural disaster areas because of excessive rain, flooding, high winds and hail.
India, which receives nearly 80% of its annual rainfall from June to September, has seen a series of disasters caused by excessive rain.
North Dakota officials say Devils Lake has risen 27 feet since 1993, principally because of excessive rain, flooding roads and towns in northeast North Dakota and causing $400 million in damage.
Later, excessive rains were too much for some crops.
Over the same period in Japan, glaciers advanced, the mean winter temperature dropped 3.5 °C (6.3 °F), and summers were marked by excessive rains and bad harvests.
The New Yorker, August 24 , 1968P. 21 Not even truck gardeners are always able to deal with the effects of such a weather parlay as that in which the excessive rains of June were followed by drought in July and August.
Not even truck gardeners are always able to deal with the effects of such a weather parlay as that in which the excessive rains of June were followed by drought in July and August.
Both customs were important components of a religious rite that served to pacify an angry God who was believed to punish entire communities for the sins of the few with starvation, "excessive rains from the bottles of heaven," epidemics, crop infestations, the Indian wars and other hardships.
