Sentence examples for potential for rainfall from inspiring English sources
The National Hurricane Center also produces updated maps showing the potential for rainfall and flash flooding.
Global temperatures have risen by about 0.7C since pre-industrial times, which the Met Office calculate would lead to a 4 per cent rise in the level of moisture in the atmosphere, increasing the potential for rainfall.
The intensity of a tropical cyclone appears to have little bearing on its potential for rainfall over land, but satellite measurements over the last several years show that more intense tropical cyclones produce noticeably more rainfall over water.
Mr. Kimberlain said that despite the uncertainty about the storm's strength, he was especially concerned about the potential for heavy rainfall, especially in parts of New York and New Jersey that have received much rain in the past few weeks.
Although the potential for heavy rainfall was in the agency's forecasts a week in advance, he said, "Clearly the magnitude of the rainfall and the repetivieness of it in some critical areas was not pinpointed" well ahead of time.
Because warmer air can hold more water, climate change will give the potential for stronger rainfall events.
This is undisputed science and it clearly increases the potential for extreme rainfall and flooding".
The bottom line is that there is the potential for substantial rainfall in the region this weekend, of at least one inch.
Given this setup, both the National Weather Service and Capital Weather Gang recognized, as early as Saturday, the potential for heavy rainfall and flash flooding in the region on Sunday.
There is potential for the rainfall overnight to accumulate up to 200-250mm on high ground, so the public should be aware and prepared for any flooding.
The potential for satellite rainfall estimates to drive hydrological models has been long understood, but at the high spatial and temporal resolutions often required by these models the uncertainties in satellite rainfall inputs are both significant in magnitude and spatiotemporally autocorrelated.
