Sentence examples for intense rainstorm from inspiring English sources

During a single afternoon, I saw several orangutans climb down trees and craft umbrella-like hats out of leaves when an intense rainstorm rolled in.

In this study we document a post-fire erosion response to a short-lived, intense rainstorm occurred on 6 September 2012 in the Sant'Angelo creek watershed, Sarno Mountains, Southern Italy.

On Friday, October 10, despite an intense rainstorm, hundreds marched in Clayton, Missouri demanding that the county prosecutor step down.

During intense rainstorms, rainfall intensity and infiltration capacity on the hillslope control Hortonian runoff while the topographic attributes of the hillslope (e.g., slope, aspect, curvature) and the channel network define the structural hydraulic connectivity that determines how rapidly excess water is transferred.

The damage to the dams underscored the vulnerability of hundreds of small earthen dams in New Jersey during intense rainstorms.

Higher temperatures could mean more brownouts and blackouts in the summer because of heavier electricity use on hot days, panel members said, and more flooding of streets and basements from intense rainstorms.

"If this cycle continues," Mr. Noren said, "the frequency and severity of intense rainstorms that can cause massive flooding should continue to increase for the next several hundred years".

A recent study by the Insurance Bureau of Canada warned that Alberta was particularly vulnerable to more intense rainstorms that could cause flash floods.The flooding in Calgary and other cities and towns along the Bow and Elbow Rivers was caused by an unusually prolonged storm that dumped record amounts of rain near the sources of the two rivers in the Rocky Mountains.

The researchers, led by Professor Francis Zwiers at the University of Victoria, Canada, found that increases in intense rainstorms over land in the northern hemisphere, as measured by rain gauges, mirrored the projections from climate models and could not be explained by natural climate variability.

During intense rainstorms, the system effectively attenuated stormwater and increased the infiltration rate.

Hill-country forest land is vulnerable to intense rainstorms, particularly post-harvest when the soils are exposed.