Sentence examples for rainfall rates from inspiring English sources

In small thunderstorms, peak five-minute rainfall rates can exceed 120 mm (4.7 inches) per hour, but most rainfalls are about one-tenth this amount.

Evaporation rates regularly exceed rainfall rates.

Rainfall rates are increasing; wet areas trending even wetter.

Rainfall rates will almost certainly exceed three inches per hour over the already-submerged city.

Rainfall rates such as these may overwhelm the capacity of storm drains, resulting in local flooding.

Trenberth, K. E. Atmospheric moisture residence times and cycling: Implications for rainfall rates with climate change.

In this area, rainfall rates at times exceeded three inches per hour.

The blue part contains the stratiform-classified minutes, with rainfall rates ranging from 0.1 to about 10 mm h−1.

The National Weather Service in San Juan reported incredible rainfall rates up to 5 to 7 inches per hour.

Rainfall rates in some areas reached three to four inches per hour and a foot in less than 12 hours.

Rainfall rates reached two to three inches per hour during that storm, according to the ­National Weather Service in Pittsburgh.