Sentence examples for rainfall began from inspiring English sources

The state climatologist forecast another 2too 6 inches (5 to 15 cm) through Monday as the rainfall began to slacken.

Rainfall began to wane and crops withered, probably because of natural changes in the Intertropical Convergence Zone, or the area where the northeast and southeast trade winds come together.

Computer simulation of the water balance of catchments for estimating runoff from rainfall began in Australia about four decades ago.

The results showed that for many sampling sites the soil temperature increased with the volumetric water content once the rainfall began.

The Met Office said the wettest place in the UK since the heavy rainfall began on 19 December, to 06:00 on Monday, has been Tyndrum in Perthshire, with 155mm (6.1in) of rain.

In early October, heavy rainfall began affecting Nicaragua, causing mudslides and flooding.

For example, after a typhoon moves on, damage from wind stops, coastal storm surge drops, and flood flows activated by intense rainfall begin to diminish.

But as the warmth stretches into the winter, rainfall begins to freeze in solid, impenetrable sheets on the ground, blocking access to the lichen and moss below, he says.

Figure 2I shows the resulting output of forecasting from sequential SSA, with rainfall beginning to decline as French Guiana enters a trough of dryer years after several years of high rainfall.

Last year's summer was wet enough after a long, warm spring, to produce a bumper crop of home-grown apples while this year's deluge of rain - the wettest since modern rainfall records began in 1910 - has, according to recent research by English Apples and Pears doomed this year's apple harvest to a drop of up to 25% in two of the biggest players in the home-grown market – Cox and Braeburn.

Since the 1980s when rainfall measurements began in the west Greenland town of Kangerlussuaq, the focus of the study, the proportion of precipitation now falling as rainfall rather than snow has both increased and extended into the late summer and autumn in line with increased circulation and moisture availability within a warmer, more energetic atmosphere.