Sentence examples for extreme downpour from inspiring English sources

But this time, despite the extreme downpour, the river did not burst its banks and their home was saved.

So an extreme downpour like this fits with that picture.

The frequency and intensity of extreme downpours is very likely to increase in many populous regions.

The Met Office said that as well as an emerging trend of wetter weather in the UK, their meteorologists were also observing an increasing number of "extreme" downpours.

Scientists studying variations in tropical heat and rainfall since the mid-1980s have found a strong link between warm periods and a rise in the frequency of the most extreme downpours.

Such extreme downpours are already occurring more often across the US, but a new study finds that as global temperatures rise, storms could dump considerably more rain and skyrocket in frequency.

The government, which had been criticised for not taking full account of the impact of climate change in driving up flood risk, will now plan for 20-30% more extreme downpours than before.

'It's a pretty disturbing time for Ukraine': Trump's Russia ties unnerve Kiev While extreme downpours of rain are already on the rise, a new study finds that they could increase dramatically in the years to come.

In reality, though, the wild weather was a perfect example of the Australian predicament: extended periods of drought interrupted by extreme downpours, a pattern that has long existed on this desert continent and one that promises to become familiar to more and more people around the world as climate change kicks in.

Extreme downpours are increasing and global warming will raise the risks of bigger cloudbursts for the rest of the century.

The rainfall from sudden, extreme downpours can't completely offset that moisture loss since soil has only a limited capacity to absorb water during such storms, as the U.S. Geological Survey notes.