Sentence examples for intense downpour from inspiring English sources

Just ask residents living just outside Harrisburg, Pa., where a quick-hitting but exceptionally intense downpour dumped an unbelievable amount of rain.

Last week, after the most intense downpour in ten years, reporters immediately asked Mr. Aguirre whether all the rain would ease the shortage.

The Associated Press reported that the intense downpour had swollen rivers in Missouri, with the Black River already beginning to pour over the levees in the city of Poplar Bluff in the southeastern part of the state.

An intense downpour hammered a stretch of Highway 101 where a brush fire had swept through on Christmas weekend.

An intense downpour that began late on Saturday turned a stream that runs through the city into a raging torrent that destroyed houses and tore up roads.

A long drought followed by an intense downpour is a recipe for multiple disease outbreaks, says Paul R. Epstein, a physician and associate director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School.

Dams also threaten to intensify flooding downstream during intense downpours when reservoirs overflow.

Most of it comes from May to December, in brief but intense downpours.

Locally, these sudden, intense downpours are called "guerrilla" storms, because they seem to attack out of nowhere.

With extra heat helping to nourish storms, scientists expect global warming to help produce more intense downpours.

With the extra heat helping nourish storms, scientists expect global warming to help produce more intense downpours.