Sentence examples for more violent rainfall from inspiring English sources

As the year ended there were many signs of an overheating world, including the astonishingly unseasonal winter warmth – it was 72F (22C) in Manhattan on Christmas Eve and The New York Times described the Yuletide weather as "tropical" – and the more violent rainfall that a warming world is expected to bring, with the North of England flooded on an unprecedented scale.

Places such as Bangkok, Jakarta and Ho Chi Minh City are now considered "hot spots" that will bear the brunt of the impact as sea levels rise, tropical storms become more violent, and rainfall becomes both more sporadic and — in the rainy season — more intense.

Others predict a 25% increase that, if the rain came in isolated bursts, would mean more of those destructive floods.In any case, Petra Tschakert, an expert in climate-change adaptation in west Africa at Pennsylvania State University, says the main concern is the ever more unpredictable and violent rainfall, not the amount.

In a nutshell, global warming heats up our oceans and loads hurricanes and other storms with extra energy, making them more violent, increasing the amount of rainfall and high winds they deliver and making flooding more likely.

Climate change is with us now, and is manifesting through rising temperatures, more violent and unpredictable storms, and heavier rainfall.

Damming rivers in India, deforestation in Nepal and changing rainfall patterns have combined to make the floods more violent, more frequent and – this is the real disaster – less predictable.

With diminishing rainfall, the soil is blown away by winds that grow ever more violent.

His music became more violent.

Everything is more violent, so our music is more violent".

Potentially much more violent.

The threats, meanwhile, became more violent.