Sentence examples for severe downpours from inspiring English sources

The high river levels were attributed to severe downpours over the weekend.

A month's worth of rain was set to fall on the UK on Wednesday as severe downpours brought flooding to large parts of the country.

The announcements, to be made on a trip to California, cap a climate-focused week at the White House, following the release of an authoritative report on the growing threat posed by heat waves, severe downpours and sea-level rise.

While revealing the rising potential for epic storms, the new findings are likely to confound efforts to discern whether human alterations of the atmosphere, particularly a buildup of heat-trapping greenhouse gases, are increasing the frequency of severe downpours, as many climate experts have predicted.

Already, the effects of climate change are painfully apparent in the shrinking Arctic ice cap, in the death of millions of acres of forest in the Western U.S., in more severe downpours and flooding in the Northeast, and, quite possibly, in the current California drought.

Donald won the event after 54 holes, the course's Scottish Open debut curtailed by severe downpours.

As a result, vector of "downpour" and vector of "rainstorm" are quite similar.

A woman has been found dead in New Zealand following a severe downpour that washed away a bridge and prompted a state of emergency in the South Island.

The board said the cause of the crash was the pilot's flying into a severe downpour, common in the area, but also pointed out that floats on the helicopter would have helped.

The storm hugged the Florida coast, delivering a severe downpour and strong winds that downed trees for hundreds of miles and left 1.1 million people without power, but Matthew didn't make landfall and cause the level of damage some local officials had feared.

Terrible Downpour Elaine!