Intense squall lines brought torrential rains, falling at rates of 2 in (50.8 mm) at times, peaking at 2.22 in (56.4 mm) per hour from 0900 UTC to 1200 UTC on October 16.
A dramatic example of this was the Storm of the Century in March 1993, but other smaller-scale events (such as the brief but intense squall which caused a freighter to strike and partially collapse the original Sunshine Skyway bridge in May 1980) occur almost every year.
The precipitation came in intense squalls, with hourly peaks of 49 mm recorded, which flooded rivers and some houses.
On November 11, a ship reported sustained winds of 110 mph (175 km/h), although this reading was discarded and attributed to intense squalls.
The turning point came in the midst of an intense localized squall.
Like a brief, intense summer squall, a media storm passed over small-town America a few years ago, stripping away what was left of the myth of the rural idyll to reveal a cast of hollow-cheeked white people smoking meth behind the corn silo.
During their approach to Guadalcanal, the Japanese force passed through a large and intense rain squall which, along with a complex formation plus some confusing orders from Abe, split the formation into several groups.
Hannah Gastonguay referred to the beginning of their journey as "cruising" and "pretty exciting," to being battered by intense weather as "squall after squall after squall," and to being adrift in a heavily damaged boat as a "twilight zone".
Hannah Gastonguay referred to the beginning of their journey as "cruising" and "pretty exciting," to being battered by intense weather as "squall after, after squall, after squall," and to being adrift in a heavily damaged boat as a "twilight zone".
The intense emotional squalls are tempered by hilarious conversational rabbit-holes.
Just as they enter their third major cultural rejuvenation – Screamadelica, Vanishing Point/XTRMNTR and now the intense, politicised sonic squall of their new album More Light – they're bunged on before the Rolling Stones almost as a throwaway, soundalike warmup act, like having the Bootleg Beatles support McCartney.
