Sentence examples for rainfall hit from inspiring English sources

Those were specific to Darfur, whereas the sharp drop in rainfall hit the whole Sahel, without intensifying conflict elsewhere.Another commonly cited example is violent competition for scarce grazing between nomadic herdsmen in the Horn of Africa.

Two years ago, on Oct. 25, 2011, a torrential rainfall hit the Cinque Terre, drenching the olive groves, vineyards and lemon orchards, flooding the streams, shattering the tracery of stone walls that support the terraces and sending a wave of mud and rubble into the two northernmost villages, Monterosso and Vernazza.

Then in July 2012, an unprecedented four-day heavy rainfall hit Kyushu in Southwest Japan and formed devastating floods and mudslides, and was associated with 32 people who were reported either dead or missing; 400,000 people were evacuated from their homes (Duan et al. 2014).

It's like water on a parking lot or the surface of a playground slide, Kean said: "When the rainfall hits it, it just runs right off.… The rapid runoff from these bare hill slopes can quickly pick up sediment, and that can transform into a really nasty debris flow".

On Saturday morning, the 2007 cumulative rainfall total hit about 30.5 inches, and an overnight soaking was on the way, fed by moisture from the Gulf of Mexico.

The latest forecast from the Met Office is predicting up to 10mm (0.5in) of rainfall could hit the region in the early hours.

It happens on the nights of heavy rainfall which hits my window, or any surface which resonates sound.

Multiple areas this summer were slammed with heavy rainfall, but areas hit the hardest, like the Southeast, will have the highest risk for flash flooding if hit by a tropical system.

People are urged to move to higher, stable ground prior to the arrival of Emily's rainfall slated to hit in bulk on Wednesday".

Inconsistent rainfall has also hit crop yields, pushing up prices.

The city sometimes also receives rainfall when cyclones hit the Bay of Bengal.