Yet the show did go on, eventually, with the rain diminishing to a drizzle through the 90-minute program's first two pieces and stopping altogether by the third and last.
The noise and rain diminished, but the water kept rising.
Although April is known for its showers, forecasters said the chance of rain diminishes quickly by the middle of May.
Acid rain diminishes each year, thanks to a pioneering, market-based emissions-trading system adopted under the first President Bush in 1990.
They suggest that warming will cause a change from snowfall to rain, diminishing natural water storage capacity, as well as earlier melting of winter snow, shifting peak river runoff away from the periods of highest demand in summer and autumn.
As the rain finally diminished, clouds in the western sky remained illuminated by the setting sun.
Though the rain had diminished to a drizzle and the sun was beginning to peek through the clouds here and there, the Guadalupe, the Brazos, the San Bernard, the Colorado and several smaller rivers and creeks were all well beyond their banks today.
After lunch, the rain had diminished to a steady downpour, causing Barry to remark, "Aren't we lucky?" Had I been married to him and had we been traveling alone, I would have torn his head off after such a comment.
The rains have diminished the fires' most noxious problem, thick smoke from burning lakebeds and swamplands that have been dried out by a drought now in its fourth year.
Most of the daylight hours, Taite and Humphrey were still fighting the high winds, but fortunately the rains had diminished.
