Sentence examples for sustained rainfall from inspiring English sources

The floods are the result of exceptional and sustained rainfall across southern Africa, the heaviest since records were first kept more than a century ago.

"It will take a much longer period of sustained rainfall for the groundwater to recover in chalk, which is the UK's primary aquifer," says Dr Adrian Butler, a reader in subsurface hydrology at Imperial College London.

Seasonal dates of migration to and from the breeding ponds can be correlated with bouts of sustained rainfall, ice thaw, or snow melt sufficient to replenish the (often) seasonal ponds.

Massive epizootics are typically observed in livestock during times of unusually high and sustained rainfall because of the presence of breeding sites and overabundance of adult competent mosquito vectors (1).

However Guernsey sustained heavy rainfall with more than 50 roads and several properties flooded.

Motherwell say sustained heavy rainfall has led to flooding in the area in front of the East Stand at the halfway line and at the East/South corner.

The action of warm air rising rapidly through the atmosphere is usually a trigger for sustained, sometimes violent, rainfall.

Plants were sustained by natural rainfall and irrigated if necessary at the beginning or end of the rainy season.

RVF outbreaks are associated with persistent heavy rainfall, sustained flooding and appearance of large numbers of mosquitoes, the main vector.

The principal weather events we need to plan for are more rainfall over sustained periods in winters, more intense localised rain storms particularly in the summer, albeit summers on average will be drier and hotter overall with higher peak temperatures, and more severe storms, against a background of rising sea levels.

Torrential rains were also recorded; a peak rainfall total was measured at 500 mm in Funato, which also sustained the highest hourly rainfall total of 79.0 mm.