Sentence examples for major rainfall from inspiring English sources

It happens dozens of times a year, undermining water quality, closing beaches and endangering aquatic life: Hit by major rainfall, New York's sewers release raw sewage and polluted storm water into New York Harbor.

The major rainfall is received during June to September in the south-west monsoon (71%%).

The two major rainfall observation techniques, ground-based measurements and remote sensing, have distinct coverage characteristics.

Thus, forage levels increase dramatically within a lag of about one month following a major rainfall event.

During infrequent major rainfall events and the cold period snowmelt events the impacts of urbanization were less pronounced.

Note that 2000 mm/year ≈ 5.5 mm/day is the zonal-mean value around the equator (Fig. 1c), suggesting major rainfall in the equatorial region occurs near coastlines.

"Whether the worst of it has passed will depend on whether there are any more major rainfalls in the next few days".

He noted that that since there were no major rainfalls -- the kind that can cause severe flooding -- the overabundance of precipitation was, actually, a good thing, especially coming in the aftermath of drought conditions that lasted off-and-on from 1998 until October 2002.

However, this outbreak occurred 10 days after the most recent of three major rainfalls that could plausibly have given rise to contamination of the source water.

The ratio of aqueduct to spring water varies considerably during normal operation; full advantage is taken of the increase in availability of the spring's source after major rainfalls.

Two major simulated rainfall intensities (52 mm h−1 and 28 mm h−1) were designed and conducted, which can represent heavy rainstorms and moderate rainfalls in the local region, respectively.