Sentence examples for rainfall fell from inspiring English sources

More than half its average annual rainfall fell on Tuesday.

Record rainfall fell in November and continued for two months, leading to three major flooding events and landslides.

The floods were caused when three months of rainfall fell on Bosnia in the space of a few days.

Rainfall statistics show that between the 1950s and 1980s summer rainfall fell by around 40% across the Sahel, bringing the region to its knees.

In parts of the Northeast, the month's average rainfall fell in a single day, disbelief rising like water in the storm drains as hour after hour passed with no letup, the runoff gouging out driveways and washing out fields, stunting already stunted corn.

Fire frequency increased abruptly and dramatically when rainfall fell below 200 mm month−1, especially as landscape perturbation increased (indicated by vegetation index data).

December was the wettest month in records stretching back more than a hundred years for the UK, with almost double the normal amount of rainfall falling nationwide.

The new research shows rainfall falling by two-thirds over parts of central America and north Africa and by half over parts of Australia, the Mediterranean, southern Africa and the Amazon.

However, with half of Brisbane's entire average monthly rainfall falling during just half an hour on Sunday, the scale of the deluge it is experiencing now is clear.

"This amount of additional rainfall falling on to already saturated ground is likely to lead to flooding, either from standing water, or from rivers bursting their banks," the Met Office said.

One point of clarification: rainfall in the area is not declining but is increasing in intensity, ie more rainfall falling on fewer days, so he is correct to highlight waste and overuse of water by consumers as a cause of low flow and increased pollution in rivers.