Sentence examples for rain striking from inspiring English sources

Mike Stanton tossed a ball in the outfield at Yankee Stadium yesterday and felt the vicious wind and the persistent rain striking one side of his face.

An excerpt: AT the end of the day Sunday, as yet another thunderstorm passed over the mountains, Paul and I rested on the cabin's porch and enjoyed the sound of the rain striking the roof and cascading from the roof's edge.

In this paper, the wind driven rain striking the exterior facade of two buildings (one twice the size of the other) is generated using a three-dimensional computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model that solves the air flow and particle tracking of the rain droplets around these two buildings.

There is strong colour, a sense of being close to and sometimes lashed by the elements: powerful sun, sudden brief rain, striking changes of the light.

Where rain strikes the titanium directly, however, the surface has apparently been cleaned by the water.

The rain struck sideways, launched by winds obliterating hairdos at up to 40mph.

Freezing rain struck the northern Midwest, coating roads and pavements with solid ice.

Severe thunderstorms with heavy rain struck southeast Texas and South Louisiana overnight, killing four people in Texas, flooding roads and shutting schools.

The rain struck the windshield of the bus waiting outside the Children's Aid Society's Hope Leadership Academy on Madison Avenue and 114th Street.

However, the pumps appeared unable to cope with the large amounts of rain dumped by the typhoon, so when the rain struck Sunday, water was still up to nine inches deep in some spots, Tepco said.

Witnesses on Sunday described how driving "horizontal rain" struck the Côte d'Azur – a record 107mm fell in Cannes in just one hour – along with hailstones the size of ice cubes.