Sentence examples for prolonged storm from inspiring English sources

She's the kind of person who could make you see the bright side of being stuck in a prolonged storm without a coat or umbrella, in the middle of a muddy field, five miles from the nearest road.

As the increased flux of icebergs reaches Cape Farewell, most bergs turn into Baffin Bay, although a few "rogue" icebergs continue directly into the Labrador Sea, especially if influenced by prolonged storm activity.

Similarly, during a prolonged storm that buried much of usually clement southern China in snow and ice last winter, the country's news media were slow to pick up on the scale of the crisis and initially provided little aggressive reporting from swaths of the countryside that were essentially paralyzed.

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.

In Dorset, sirens sounded in Chiswell on the Isle of Portland for the first time since they were installed 30 years ago, with one English Channel coastguard saying she had never seen such a prolonged storm.

The flooding began at the end of last year when prolonged storms led to some 11,500 hectares (28,420 acres) of the Somerset Levels being inundated with water for much of the winter.

They also corroborate the findings of intense neutrophil influx in the lung, prolonged cytokine storm and diffuse alveolar damage as key components of the pathogenesis of the infection [ 3].

In some areas, the storm tide prolonged the coastal flooding from a tropical cyclone.

This storm system prolonged an ongoing heavy rain event, which began across Arkansas and Missouri on April 22. Weekly rainfall totals reached 19.73 inches 6 mile east-northeast of Springdale, Arkansas, 16.20 inches 4 mile northwest of Poplar Bluff, Missouri, and 14.96 inches at Westville, Oklahoma.

And a series of brutal heat waves, severe storms and prolonged power failures has punished residents of the Northeast, generating widespread concern that the region's infrastructure is woefully unprepared for the strange weather that's become our new norm.

Large storms and/or prolonged periods of rainfall that result in local to sub-regional landsliding are relatively more frequent (e.g. Gisborne District Council, 2012).