Heavy downpours and flash flooding are possible near the coast.
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On Sunday, the downpours will continue on the East Coast.
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More than a million people were displaced by the downpours.
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Ottawa and Montreal are on alert as downpours are forecast.
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Even with major downpours, a large crowd gathered to watch.
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He finds moments of relief in coastal winds and downpours.
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Strong breezes shook rickety rooftops and downpours battered the coast.
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But they come back as torrential downpours that create floods.
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She said the hotel is ready to withstand heavy downpours.
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Torrential downpours may cause flash flooding in some areas, it said.
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Downpours and frequent lightning typical of such storms will also occur.
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Abundant downpours during the rainy season bring deadly floods every year.
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San Juan, Puerto Rico (CNN)The tropical heat and the downpours.
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The downpours have intensified already high disease pressure on French wheat.
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Torrential downpours from the storm sent several rivers to record levels.
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Today we were greeted with downpours and a belated winter chill.
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But while the downpours were greeted warmly, they also caused problems.
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The heaviest downpours are getting heavier in many parts of the world.
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Climate change-exacerbated weather extremes like torrential downpours can also damage forests.
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Sure enough, my review unit survived the recent torrential downpours in NYC.
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In southeastern Alabama, downpours already covered roads and bridges in Lee County.
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This winter has seen the heaviest downpours of the past half-century.
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The storm system reached North Carolina late Monday afternoon, bringing heavy downpours.
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The operation took 15 days, working through oppressive heat and heavy downpours.
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Heavy downpours were expected in East Texas, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle.
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The country has recently been hit by flash floods and heavy downpours.
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Thunderstorms and downpours this week have made that need even more acute.
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That's why there's a big increase in heavy downpours ("extreme precipitation events").
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Weather forecasts predicted more downpours during what is traditionally China's flood season.
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Hot and steamy, with tropical downpours likely, next to Kuala Lumpur's international airport.
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They cannot withstand the stormy weather and constant downpours so need replacing regularly.
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Weather forecasters predict the relentless downpours could start to ease in coming days.
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It has been lashed with heavy downpours and strong, tropical storm-force winds.
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Dams also threaten to intensify flooding downstream during intense downpours when reservoirs overflow.
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The mudslides and downpours forced the closure of major roadways, complicating response operations.
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Heavy downpours could deliver several inches of rain and localized urban flooding concerns.
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In the centre-western region of Daloa, farmers said downpours would strengthen trees.
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The current storm began producing downpours on Tuesday night and continued on Wednesday.
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And scientists are getting better at figuring out when the torrential downpours are coming.
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IN COSTA RICA'S rainy season, bright mornings yield with deceptive suddenness to tropical downpours.
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At times, torrential downpours were dropping up to four inches of rain per hour.
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Weather is getting stuck in place, making both extreme dryness and extreme downpours routine.
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The rainy season is only halfway through and more downpours are expected in August.
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With them, we experience a drastically changing world: melting poles, warm winters, violent downpours.
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Downpours of torrential rain brought relief to the heaviest-hit state in the country.
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Most had to walk hours more, through torrential downpours, to reach the refugee shantytown.
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Torrential downpours will be impacting places like Dallas, Shreveport, Little Rock, Memphis and Louisville.
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At least another 12 people were still missing after the downpours, local media reported.
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More drizzles than downpours often give Seattle more days of moist and cloudy weather.
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But heavy downpours might also have played a role in the collapse on Friday.
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Efforts to pump water out of the cave have been set back by heavy downpours.
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And season to season, it can shift from no rain to downpours from atmospheric rivers.
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Southwestern Japan was hit by torrential downpours that caused flooding and landslides over the weekend.
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Rainy season downpours are expected to become heavy in the coming weeks, aiding crops further.
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The heavy downpours killed at least four people this week and prompted evacuations and rescues.
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Downpours could cause streams to quickly overflow and lead to flash flooding, weather forecasters warned.
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Whether it's rain: Thunderstorms are predicted throughout the day (with gusty winds and heavy downpours).
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It has ridden in the back of my pickup in downpours and down dusty lanes.
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Prices of most vegetables climbed in October as monsoon downpours delayed harvests and disrupted supplies.
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Monsoon downpours take just minutes to spurt through Bangalore's overburdened pipes and onto the streets.
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Downpours and possible showers were forecast to linger across the region for several more days.
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With a great pair of rain boots, your feet will stay dry even during downpours.
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Put simply, a warmer atmosphere can hold more water, increasing the potential for heavy downpours.
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The group found that Texas had seen a 20 percent increase in extremely heavy downpours.
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But I've found these tights to be indispensable for running and biking during cold downpours.
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Today's torrential downpours are definitely a sign that the English summer is on its way.
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We could even see some downpours with thunder and isolated damaging winds after 9 p.m.
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Torrential downpours have flooded huge swaths of the Midwest and the Southeast since last week.
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Earlier efforts to pump water out of the cave have been set back by heavy downpours.
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When rare downpours do suddenly come, existing infrastructure often fails to store water adequately, said Sharma.
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When downpours of that sort occur, it's imperative that we rush outdoors carrying washtubs, not teaspoons.
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Tropical cyclones may present the main threat, but climate change is also causing heavier downpours elsewhere.
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Heavy downpours were expected to begin lashing parts of Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama on Sunday.
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Heavy downpours over the weekend also caused a landslide on US Route 441 in Anderson County.
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Even when it started raining, marchers were undeterred by the heavy downpours throughout the early afternoon.
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Power lines snapped under ferocious winds and roads were washed away by torrential downpours and mudslides.
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Farmers reported similar conditions in the southern regions of Agboville and Divo, where downpours were abundant.
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The downpours led to more than 60 sinkholes and washouts, according to CNN affiliate WLUC-TV.
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The main threats from this system include heavy downpours, small hail and 45 mph wind gusts.
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Nine of the top 10 years for heavy downpours in the U.S. have occurred since 1990.
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With heavy downpours increasing because of climate change, the authors write, expect things to get worse.
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The rainy season here has been starting later in recent years, and the downpours are fewer.
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After so many years of people praying for rain, the recent downpours have been bittersweet, Mrs.
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We could even hear a rumble of thunder with chances for a period of heavier downpours.
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The roads are especially suited to countries that experience heavy and often torrential downpours, he said.
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Downpours and flooding would be especially severe, lasting for days, if the storm stalls over land.
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Some social media users documented fallen trees that crashed down due to the fierce winds and downpours.
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Farmers said they needed sun and downpours until the end of June for the harvest to improve.
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Downpours go hand in hand with hurricanes, since the cyclones are powered by evaporating and condensing moisture.
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Exacerbating matters, the winter's freeze made the ground less absorbent when extreme downpours then slammed the region.
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Massive deluge Many areas remain inundated after downpours of more than a foot in some areas Saturday.
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Worsening wildfires, more intense droughts, downpours, and floods are all described in the latest National Climate Assessment.
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One commenter shared a tweet after walking past a local resident who seemed familiar with epic downpours.
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The downpours could dampen Memorial Day, the unofficial start of the summer tourist season along Gulf beaches.
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Torrential downpours and flash flooding from the storm over the weekend caused 13 deaths in Central America.
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In the center-western region of Daloa, farmers said they were happy with the rhythm of downpours.
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More downpours meant pitches and fairways were more likely to be soggy or unplayable, the study said.
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CRI score: 16 One of the world's poorest countries, Burundi suffered following torrential downpours in February 2014.
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This means, Most of the state will continue to feel Irma's effects -- windy conditions and torrential downpours.
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This is a love story to so many things, including youth, and cinema, and kissing in downpours.
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Shifts in climate metrics can cause extreme weather events like heatwaves, downpours and wildfires, the report notes.
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Downpours go hand-in-hand with hurricanes, since the cyclones are powered by evaporating and condensing moisture.
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Heavy downpours hit the tropical Southeast Asian country during the May-October rainy season, often triggering flooding.
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In neighboring Laos, downpours triggered a dam collapse, washing away houses in the ensuing torrents of water.
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Five Monmouth County beaches were closed, along with area bridges and roads, following strong downpours on Monday.
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For example, McAllen, located along the US-Mexico border, saw a 700 percent increase in heavy downpours.
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Total rain amounts from the storm could approach two inches for spots that see early morning downpours.
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Despite those downpours, the canal area has had six straight years of below-average rainfall (see chart).
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Weather forecasters have all the available information, and yet they still sometimes end up caught in downpours.
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At least 13 of Iran's 31 provinces have been hit by heavy downpours that began on March 19.
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The main rail line to the South West has been washed away in several places following torrential downpours.
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Heavy downpours are becoming more frequent in some areas, while droughts also turn more severe in some regions.
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Some of the latrines are piled high with fly-riddled excrement, which seeps out the sides during downpours.
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Mumbai's local government declared Tuesday a public holiday as the financial hub continued to be hit by downpours.
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The new onslaught of rain comes as Southern California dries out following downpours that left five people dead.
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Heavy downpours and heavy mountain snow are expected to last through Monday morning, the National Weather Service said.
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The early rainy season downpours have forced hundreds of people from their homes across the Indian Ocean island.
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Recent downpours have hit cotton and millet in Gujarat and Rajasthan, where farm experts now fear pest infestations.
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This means storms can suck up more water from the air, giving them more fuel for heavier downpours.
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The news outlet reported that virtually the entire town was under several inches of water caused by downpours.
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"Downpours, hail storms and a tornado battered parts of Yancheng city ... causing many houses to topple," it said.
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The world's top cocoa producer is in its rainy season and downpours are expected until at least July.
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The chance of rainfall increases from Sunday, and alongside the increased rainfall is the threat of heavier downpours.
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A hot and steamy venue, with the constant risk of tropical downpours, next to Kuala Lumpur's international airport.
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Puhaindran's wish list, opens the kitchen to the courtyard — and seals it to prevent downpours from seeping in.
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Farmers said downpours in July would determine the number of flowers that survive and turn into small pods.
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The National Weather Service in Los Angeles is expecting a steady rain with heavier downpours during this period.
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A warming atmosphere can hold more moisture and unleash more intense downpours, and make wet places even wetter.
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Brief downpours have always been common during Thailand's wet season, which runs from late May to early October.
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The early rainy-season downpours forced many families from their homes, displacing over 270,000 people across the country.
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He said 120,000 rescuers were helping people evacuate and installing mobile water pumps as more downpours were forecast.
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The logistical nightmare: There are still torrential downpours in the forecast and recovery efforts are ongoing. http://nyti.
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The weather has become erratic: the growing season might begin with a week of downpours followed by drought.
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The weather was cooperating, too: After a day of torrential downpours on Sunday, things cleared up on Monday.
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Bouncing back and forth between downpours and drought is going to stress infrastructure like canals and sewage systems.
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The downpours haven't stopped either, upping the risk of waterborne diseases and raising fears that things may get worse.
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The building collapsed last week in a congested neighborhood of the old city after two days of intense downpours.
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Many areas remain inundated after 55 mph winds and downpours of more than a foot in some areas Saturday.
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The rise could be linked to climate change, which is causing more downpours and erosion of soils, Lin said.
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But all the downpours from up north, and especially Houston, were overflowing rivers, including the one in their town.
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Climate scientists say warming is causing more extreme days of heat, downpours and is nudging up global sea levels.
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Downpours are likely to become much more spotty in nature over southeastern Texas to end the week, AccuWeather said.
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Laos and its neighbors are in the middle of the monsoon season that brings tropical storms and heavy downpours.
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But the downpours that sweep in from the Indian Ocean can be ruinous when they repeatedly pelt one area.
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Thousands were forced to sleep out in the open, exposed to the rainy season's downpours and "appalling" sanitation conditions.
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Heavy downpours are increasing in the south-central United States, including Texas, said Texas state climatologist John Nielsen-Gammon.
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Only later did torrential downpours and the threat of lightning twice disrupt play for a total of 74 minutes.
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The wetter outlook provided some hope for firefighters, who were helped on Thursday by downpours on the east coast.
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A couple downpours can't be ruled out, either, along with a rumble of thunder south and east of town.
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Without trees, soil on the high ground around the city is saturated by downpours, and the land is eroded.
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The torrential downpours during the weekend follow a September 2015 earthquake and March 2015 flooding, which also caused disruption.
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"Some storms may also produce large hail or torrential downpours resulting in localized flash flooding," the weather service tweeted.
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The most intense rains are expected over the next few months, though heavy downpours began pummeling the camps in June.
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Steady rain continues over the Washington metro region, but torrential downpours have not materialized for the most part, so far.
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No longer a tropical storm, Nate deposited heavy downpours in upstate Georgia on Sunday afternoon, threatening tornadoes in the region.
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The early rainy season downpours have forced many families from their homes and affected over 415,618 people across the nation.
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The world's top cocoa grower is now in its rainy season and heavy downpours are expected over the coming weeks.
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Heavy downpours caused flash floods throughout West Virginia between June 22 and June 24, devastating homes and killing 23 people.
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It's worth noting that changes in the frequency of heavy downpours are unlikely to be limited to the Gulf Coast.
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Other airports affected by the downpours included Shanghai, Nanjing in Jiangsu province, Hangzhou in Zhejiang along the Yangtze River delta.
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Downpours brought down 500 homes, damaged infrastructure and injured another 26 people from Saturday night into Sunday morning, officials added.
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In the past 103 years, the Valley has experienced a 210% increase in heavy rains, with unpredictable downpours and flooding.
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The Hurtta Torrent Dog Raincoat features high-quality construction and a secure fit to keep your dog dry in downpours.
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Rains a constant concern Rescue coordinators are warily eying the skies for further downpours, which could imperil the rescue mission.
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Downpours were so bad in Paraguay's capital, Asunción, that shantytowns sprouted along city streets, filled with families displaced by floods.
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There's a chance we'll see rain every day this week, with some heavy downpours, and it will be uncomfortably humid.
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It cited increasing water scarcity in dry regions, torrential downpours in wet regions and more severe heat waves and wildfires.
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Sporadic downpours have continued since, flooding parts of the coastal city and washing away more mud containing unrecovered human remains.
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For nearly a century, India has turned to an old statistical method to forecast and prepare for these seasonal downpours.
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Trains were canceled due to the heavy downpours and because a boulder fell on one line, railway authorities said on Twitter.
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That said, we cannot rule out some localized flooding of streams and poor-drainage areas if and where heavier downpours develop.
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Warm and humid air from the Pacific Ocean intensified a seasonal rain front, triggering torrential downpours, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.
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Britain's Met Office said on Wednesday downpours had led to 50 mm (2 in) of rain falling in just one hour.
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Britain's Met Office said on Wednesday downpours had led to 50 mm (2 inches) of rain falling in just one hour.
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The latest series of downpours that swept northern California on Sunday and Monday weakened on Tuesday, the National Weather Service said.
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The assessment says that climate change is likely to "increasingly disrupt" American farming with extreme heat, drought, wildfires, and heavy downpours.
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At the 2011 British Open, he prevailed amid the gusts and downpours at Royal St. George's Golf Club in Sandwich, England.
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Most of the victims were killed when torrential downpours caused a landslide which blocked a river, sweeping victims into the water.
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Forecasters at the National Institute of Meteorology warned on Thursday that this convergence zone could trigger flooding downpours in southeastern Brazil.
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Harvey, now a tropical storm, bore down on eastern Texas and Louisiana on Wednesday, bringing the catastrophic downpours that paralyzed Houston.
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Authorities warned of more downpours over the weekend, compounding the misery that the summer storms have brought to southwest Japan since Wednesday.
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Rivers in eastern North Carolina, still swollen from Hurricane Matthew's downpours, are flooding a region that teems with hog and poultry farms.
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Authorities declared a state of emergency in the Red Sea port city of Aqaba further south as downpours started in the afternoon.
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The damage: The storm left severe damage in surrounding communities, tearing roofs off of homes and bringing massive floods with its downpours.
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"Dallas and Oklahoma City, from there on eastward is probably at greatest threat from damaging winds, flooding downpours and tornadoes," said Feerick.
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This warned that more winter and spring downpours will mean more sodden soil, leaching of nutrients and delays to farmers' planting season.
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"We know that global warming leads to more downpours in general," said Robert Vautard, from France's Laboratory for Climate and Environment Sciences.
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In the western region of Soubre, at the heart of the cocoa belt, farmers reported two good downpours during the past week.
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As Tropical Storm Harvey causes catastrophic floods and torrential downpours across the Houston area, Apple is stepping up to aid storm relief.
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But she added that 48 hours of heavy downpours could overwhelm pumps designed to purge streets and storm drains of excess water.
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Mayor LaToya Cantrell said 48 hours of heavy downpours could overwhelm pumps designed to purge streets and storm drains of excess water.
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In Peru, the worst downpours in decades have triggered floods and landslides, killing at least 78 people and making around 70,000 homeless.
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One flight from the U.N. World Food Programme got through to Quissanga on Tuesday, though downpours stopped any more, the agency said.
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State television reported the flood was caused by freak downpours of rain that caused the river to swell and burst its banks.
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Disaster management officials in the state said the downpours had disrupted travel and telephone communications in the Morigaon, Jorhat and Dibrugarh districts.
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Most of the deaths from the rare winter floods have been caused by people driving into flooded areas after days of downpours.
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The country experienced its rainiest February in 77 years, and at least 32 people have died since Sunday as the downpours continue.
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Ivory Coast, the world's top cocoa producer, is in its dry season from November to March, when downpours are scarce or poor.
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Ivory Coast, the world's top cocoa producer, is in its dry season from November to March, when downpours are scarce or poor.
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It was a relief for many, putting out fires and watering parched cattle paddocks, but the downpours triggered disaster in the creek.
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Weather authorities are forecasting more downpours throughout the country on Saturday, with floods and landslides expected in the southwestern province of Sichuan.
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Days of downpours totaling 10 inches or more in spots pushed the Mississippi and smaller rivers over their banks in several states.
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Torrential downpours dropped upward of 2500 inches of rain in some areas of the Carolinas as the storm made landfall and weakened.
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Amadou Diallo, who farms in the outskirts of Divo, said the hot weather after the rains had negated the impact of the downpours.
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"We can expect heavy rain and downpours, flooding and flash floods in the area throughout the night," he warned at a news conference.
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Meteorologists predict there will be no end to the downpours until Labor Day, just in time to get worried about the first frost.
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Torrential downpours and flash-flooding over the weekend caused 13 deaths in Central America after Michael formed off the coast of northern Honduras.
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Peru last week said that a "weak" El Nino phenomena had triggered recent downpours and that more wet weather was on the way.
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The National Weather Service in Jacksonville had warned drivers near the air station to be careful on roads during the brief, heavy downpours.
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The heaviest downpours could lead to street and/or small-stream flooding for the evening commute, especially along and east of Interstate 240.
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The mudslide began on August 14 after three days of torrential downpours had lashed Freetown, creating waterways that churned down its steep streets.
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Hundreds of protesters gathered in a park near the Legislative Council — Hong Kong's legislature — amid on-and-off heavy downpours through the day.
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Southern Haiti and southwestern Dominican Republic can expect 15 to 25 inches of rain with possible isolated downpours of up to 40 inches.
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A host of extreme weather, from cold snaps and sharp frosts to downpours could threaten the U.K. wine industry, according to new research.
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In particular, countries need to work on capturing and managing natural rainfall to take advantage of heavier downpours, as rain becomes less reliable.
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Most of the deaths in Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma and Arkansas have been caused by people driving into flooded areas after days of downpours.
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Georgia and South Carolina More than 1.4 million customers lost power in Georgia, which was blasted by Irma's fierce winds and torrential downpours.
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The potential downpours could put an end to the fire season or at least ease the fire risk while also bringing new dangers.
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With Prana's Stretch Zion Pant, you'll be protected from sudden downpours without having to trudge through the rest of your trek soaking wet.
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Ivory Coast, the world's top cocoa producer, is in its rainy season, with heavy downpours expected to continue until the end of June.
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The National Climate Assessment, for instance, notes that heavy downpours have increased across most of the United States in the last 25 years.
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And again last winter, when Storm Desmond brought record-breaking downpours that turned roads into rivers, fields into lakes, living rooms into ponds.
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In the rainy season, from May to October, tropical downpours turn muddy trickles into rivers, plains to lakes, and dry ground to mud.
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Crowds of people gather to listen - and add their comments - amid booming calls to prayer from makeshift mosques and deafening downpours of rain.
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You can see its aspirations in the thousands of ponds all over the city that collect the runoff from Central Florida's frequent downpours.
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The result, he said, was a situation where flooding became more common, especially as the intensity of downpours has grown in recent years.
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And still more sensors and scanners might be necessary to make self-driving cars impervious to exigencies like blinding blizzards and soaking downpours.
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The cave complex is off-limits during the rainy season, which usually runs from May to October, when downpours can quickly flood it.
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Clear skies in Houston on Wednesday brought relief to the energy hub and fourth-largest U.S. city after five days of catastrophic downpours.
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It's the sandy base that makes all the difference — it drains like a colander, playing fast and firm even in the frequent downpours.
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Spring brings relief — the group doesn't have to deal with freezing temperatures anymore, but they still battle strong winds and occasional torrential downpours.
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The world's top cocoa producer is in the midst of the rainy season, and downpours this month are expected to be heavy and regular.
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The torrential downpours have flooded American farmland, particularly in the Midwest, and making a greater proportion of crops unviable compared to past planting seasons.
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"While the window for development is short, this area of downpours may still organize into a tropical depression or storm into Saturday," Kottlowski said.
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Torrential downpours from the storm would only add to the flow, raising the chance of overtopping levee walls, especially downstream where barriers are lower.
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Critics also noted that the study doesn't deal with extreme weather like this week's downpours in Houston, California's four-year drought or Superstorm Sandy.
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There were torrential downpours, near-insurmountable traffic jams, mass disorganization, unusable porta-johns, two deaths, 109 onsite arrests, and a whole lot of chaos.
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The immediate cause is El Niño, a recurring weather phenomenon which causes downpours in the Americas but heat and drought in much of Asia.
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The heavy downpours also elevated prices of vegetables such onions and tomatoes and lifted food inflation to 7.89% in October from a year earlier.
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The Hunter First Classic Waterproof Rain Boots are a bit of an investment, but they'll hold up and keep feet dry through torrential downpours.
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Instead, we were hit with a series of torrential downpours that caused many flash floods, significantly damaging our infrastructure, ecosystem, as well as crops.
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The small but notable addition won't exactly protect you from torrential downpours, and it definitely doesn't mean you can submerge your feet in water.
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The storm is expected to strengthen into a hurricane and make landfall over the weekend, threatening downpours that could flood local levees and rivers.
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Heavy precipitation events: Similarly, scientists are confident in making links between heavy downpours and climate change, since a warmer atmosphere carries more water vapor.
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One of these rare downpours is captured in striking high definition in Last Light, a new timelapse short by cinematographer and director Colin Rich.
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"Rising temperatures, extreme heat, drought, wildfire on rangelands and heavy downpours are expected to increasingly disrupt agricultural productivity in the U.S.," the report says.
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That's because India, the world's biggest seller of the Asian diet staple, has banned exports after extended Monsoon downpours delayed harvests and supplies shriveled.
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However, almost daily downpours over the past month - a period when the rainy season usually tapers off - have left the unpaved roads there impassable.
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Downpours are expected by early Sunday afternoon, said Brian Hurley, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland.
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After staggering amounts of damage in Houston, today, Tropical Storm Harvey made landfall once again bringing torrential downpours to areas of Southeast Texas and Louisiana.
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Downpours in the desert, for example, are often followed by a boom in small mammals, McGregor said, which wild kitties also seem to know about.
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The caravan of vehicles moving from one Caracol to another was slow, due to potholes, roads that weren't fully paved, raging downpours, and intense heat.
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Museum staff will move some work upstairs to protect against the nearby Seine River, which has overflowed its banks after several days of torrential downpours.
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During the 23.0 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Chinese authorities fired 2773,2473 rockets into the clouds to trigger downpours before the storms reached the capital city.
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More than a week of downpours and deadly tornadoes have devastated the central United States, bringing record-breaking floods to parts of Oklahoma and Arkansas.
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LAS VEGAS — If you've amassed a collection of cheap umbrellas due to a year's worth of unexpected downpours, Oombrella could come as a welcome relief.
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More heavy rains had been forecast for Wednesday, forcing the government to order schools and colleges shut, but in many areas the downpours were lighter.
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Why it matters: According to numerous studies, climate change is making some events, like heatwaves and heavy downpours, more intense and more likely to occur.
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Many roads, bridges, tunnels and metro stations were flooded and cars submerged in torrential downpours that followed two hours of lightning flashes across the city.
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Rain amounts should total around a quarter inch by morning but locally up to three-quarters of an inch is possible in any heavier downpours.
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He created the "Rain Study" series in 2017 by taking charcoal drawings outdoors during monsoon season to see how exposure to downpours would alter them.
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Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland, three of the most affected states, saw heavy downpours of rain which is forecast to continue through the weekend.
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He said about 120,000 rescuers had been deployed to evacuate those affected and install mobile water pumps as more downpours were forecast in coming days.
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On most days, the storms were relentless, so it was a relief to escape the worst of the downpours with the promise of a meal.
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Farmers said the downpours made drying beans a difficult and long process, increasing the chances of mould if more sunny spells were not to come.
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The Obama-era standard required that builders factor in scientific projections for increased flooding and ensure projects can withstand rising sea levels and stronger downpours.
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The southern side of the storm should produce rain including some locally heavy downpours in Kentucky, West Virginia, Mississippi and Alabama, the weather service said.
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They live in wooden huts with braided palm leaves for roofs and mud floors cracked and uneven from the daily downpours of the rainy season.
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Current government pledges to cut emissions are too weak to achieve the 2C goal, meant to avert more droughts, more powerful storms, downpours and heat waves.
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With the rain finally cleared, Camilla brought a ray of royal sunshine to the famous British tennis championships, which have been cursed with downpours all week.
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Regardless of development, the storm will bring gusty winds and heavy tropical downpours to areas of the Caribbean from Puerto Rico and Hispaniola to the Bahamas.
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In Ukraine they shot cement into the sky to prevent downpours from flooding the Pripyat river and spreading radiation into the Dnieper, the country's main waterway.
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In the center-western region of Daloa, which accounts for a quarter of Ivory Coast's output, farmers reported several large downpours and average sunshine last week.
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This freed many farmers from the fickle monsoon—India usually receives more than 70% of its annual rainfall in the annual downpours from June to September.
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Torrential downpours can leave cities from Port-au-Prince to Rio de Janeiro with collapsed drains that lead to rivers of water running through city streets.
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Nearly 0003,000 people have been affected by the disaster, the worst since the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami, and the downpours have displaced over 100,000 Sri Lankans.
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Following the worst wildfire in state history, downpours may trigger mudslides on the scorched slopes north of Sacramento and elsewhere that have been denuded of trees.
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That means blackouts are almost guaranteed following whipping winds and torrential downpours, since a critical part of the electricity system will always be in harm's way.
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Adding relevance, researchers increasingly say that greenhouse gas emissions have raised the risks of individual extreme events, from heat waves in Europe to downpours in India.
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Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas have been hammered all week with downpours, large hail, and at least two tornadoes — and forecasters warned there was more to come.
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This means accounting for the heavier downpours, extreme heat, and rising sea levels that already threaten our infrastructure and will only intensify in the coming years.
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The cause of the latest collapse was not known but it came after several days of torrential rainy-season downpours that flooded parts of the city.
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Rain in the southern provinces is expected to ease in the coming days, but weather forecasters predict downpours will move to the southwestern province of Sichuan.
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They do the simple job of keeping my feet dry, and the adjustable strap at the top can be tightened for added protection against serious downpours.
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Norway's fund, built from the nation's oil and gas revenues, says global warming is stoking downpours, droughts and rising sea levels that threaten long-term earnings.
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Warmer waters mean that more moisture can evaporate into the air to be wrung out as rain, with torrential downpours falling in Peru's west-facing mountains.
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Both the Louvre Museum and Musée d'Orsay are situated along Paris' famed Seine River, which has reportedly risen to its highest level in decades amid downpours.
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Most of the victims were killed when torrential downpours caused a landslide in Yongjia County, which in turn blocked a river, before victims were swept away.
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However in the western region of Soubre, farmers said the development of the mid-crop was satisfying and that good downpours in March would boost it.
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Jakarta and its surrounding areas have been pounded by torrential downpours since New Year's Eve, causing flooding and landslides that forced thousands to flee their homes.
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A cold and blustery winter storm unleashed downpours and extensive snowfall on Southern California, triggering a tornado and snarling post-Christmas travel on major routes Thursday.
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A cold and blustery winter storm unleashed downpours and extensive snowfall on Southern California, triggering tornado warnings and snarling post-Christmas travel on major routes Thursday.
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But in the centre-western region of Daloa, which produces a quarter of the country's output, farmers said more downpours were needed to boost the mid-crop.
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Barry's downpours could prove to be a severe test of the improvements made to New Orleans' flood defenses since the city was devastated by Katrina in 2005.
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In spite of the downpours and semi-chilly weather, London Fashion Week show-goers served up a large dose of irreverent dressing over the past few days.
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In some areas, the flooding is being called the worst seen in a century or more, due to a combination of heavy downpours and a wet May.
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Basic physics dictates that a warmer atmosphere holds more water, meaning that heavy downpours are becoming all the more common and intense as the world heats up.
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The trouble in Louisiana came less than a year after floodwaters battered some of the state's northern parishes, where the Red River swelled because of downpours elsewhere.
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Sitting by the vast Amazon River, bewitched by pink river dolphins and torrential downpours, surrounded by rain forest, these men hungered for a legacy worthy of kings.
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Still, the storm posed a considerable weather hazard to large parts of the state, with the island of Hawaii bearing the brunt of torrential downpours from Lane.
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It was overwhelmed by torrential downpours, with rains so bad that electricians panicked about the possibility of mass electrocutions, what with all those cables and people around.
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They marched in stultifying heat and intermittent downpours, united by calls for a more direct say in their government and concerns their civil liberties are under threat.
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Torrential downpours in affected areas since midweek have helped contain the fires but many still blaze, with the possibility of more acrid smoke being blown towards Melbourne.
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The intense downpours are characteristic of climate change, said Barbara Mayes Boustead, an author of the National Climate Assessment's chapters on the Midwest and Northern Great Plains.
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Over a hundred people have died in Peru from rain-related events since December, many in March after a sudden warming of Pacific waters unleashed torrential downpours.
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The state's low-lying roads and dry rivers and creek beds are particularly vulnerable to sudden downpours, with vegetation too sparse to slow the water's sudden onset.
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The world's top cocoa producer is in its rainy season, with heavy downpours in the coastal regions and forest areas expected to continue until the end of June.
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The tower is designed to simulate nasty weather of all kinds—slanted downpours, harsh winds, insistent drizzle—so Gore can test the efficacy of the materials it manufactures.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan warned of further life-threatening heavy rain on Kyushu, the southwesternmost of the country's main islands, after days of downpours and said people must evacuate.
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The fast moving storm did not linger over the coast after making landfall, sparing the region the most feared amounts of rain, though early reports showed heavy downpours.
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More than 175 people have died or are presumed dead in southwestern Japan in torrential downpours that have caused flooding and landslides in the area since this weekend.
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Downpours and thunderstorms greeted British voters in southeast England on the day they cast their votes in the historic referendum on the UK's membership in the European Union.
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ABIDJAN (Reuters) - More downpours are needed to strengthen Ivory Coast's April-to-September cocoa mid-crop despite above-average rains in most growing regions last week, farmers said.
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The combination of steep mountain slopes and deforestation makes Haiti vulnerable to deadly mudslides from heavy downpours unconnected to hurricanes, let alone full-fledged major hurricanes like Matthew.
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"While rising average temperatures are important, the impact of short term weather events such as cold snaps, sharp frosts, and downpours will continue to threaten productivity," he added.
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Trump doubts scientific findings that heatwaves, downpours and rising sea levels are linked to man-made greenhouse gas emissions and wants to bolster the U.S. fossil fuel industry.
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With every 1 degree Celsius (1.8 Fahrenheit) rise in global temperature, the atmosphere becomes capable of holding 7 percent more water vapor, which provides fuel for heavier downpours.
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"I'm Kaurareg, I'm Italaig, Gudang Yadhaikana, Gomukudin, Kawaig man, that's my people's tribes," Savage says, as steam rises from the nearby papaya and banana trees between monsoonal downpours.
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The railway has been closed since Friday, when torrential downpours triggered flooding and mudslides that killed at least 75 people and ruptured the rail line in several places.
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Climate change has increased the likelihood of torrential downpours along the Gulf Coast like those that led to deadly floods in southern Louisiana last month, scientists said Wednesday.
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Come gentle sprinkles or torrential downpours, you can expect to see a few pairs of these short and tall boots splashing through streets, no matter where you are.
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Interior ministry statistics showed downpours and flooding had completely destroyed 3,206 houses, and damaged 3,048 others in the eastern province of Kassala, one of the worst hit areas.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads At least three paintings at the Louvre were damaged during torrential downpours on the night of July 9 to 10 in Paris.
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In this ancient warming event, known as the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, or PETM, land suffered intense downpours, while ocean acidification and heat drove many marine species extinct.
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The East African nation, dubbed a country of a thousand hills, has recently been affected by landslides as a result of heavy downpours flattening houses on mountain slopes.
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These airborne streams originate in the Pacific, sometimes 300 miles wide and up to 2,000 miles in length, and become biblical downpours once they collide with coastal mountains.
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Kim, a 29-year-old South Korean, displayed a remarkable fortitude in weather that veered erratically toward the end of the day between bright sunshine and torrential downpours.
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Five straight days of downpours dropped around 52 inches of rain in some areas, the heaviest deluge ever recorded in the continental United States from a single storm.
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"Heavy downpours and flooding can spread fecal bacteria and viruses into fields where food is growing," said a report from the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health.
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The storm is expected to move east, potentially bringing massive downpours to north Texas, western Louisiana and portions of Arkansas and Oklahoma, according to the National Weather Service.
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Urban farms can lower the risk of flooding during heavy downpours and help to remain water in dry areas, according to a paper published in the journal Earth's Future.
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In other cases—droughts in Kenya in 2012, a Japanese heatwave in 2013, torrential downpours in south-west China two years later—signs of human exacerbation can be discerned.
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But outside, under a wicked hot sun and at least two torrential downpours that sent protesters scurrying under a highway overpass for shelter -- the scene has been much different.
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Clear differences in climate at 1.5C and 2.0C: 1.53C would have more very hot days & depending on where you live you could see heavier downpours and/or bigger droughts.
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Torrential downpours will wash away the makeshift shelters housing refugees in the camps and floods of dirty water could spur outbreaks of cholera and hepatitis E, reports the Guardian.
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Last month, almost 200 governments agreed a deal in Paris meant as a turning point from fossil fuels, blamed for causing more heat waves, downpours and rising sea levels.
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Near the Grand Palace, tens of thousands of Thai mourners lined up on Wednesday to secure their spot close to the grounds of the cremation complex, despite monsoonal downpours.
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The 21-year-old Monegasque led both sessions at Monza, the soggy and crash-strewn first one hardly representative after heavy overnight downpours while showers returned in the afternoon.
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Even with the threat of occasional winter downpours, the city's beaches are packed, where vendors sell sticks of cheese that they roast over coals and sprinkle generously with oregano.
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While severe storms are expected to bring some relief in the coming days, the heavy downpours could also carry the risk of landslides and water pollution, according to officials.
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And with heavy downpours and even some flurries drenching Jerusalem on Tuesday, the president's aides also mustered hundreds of portable heaters to keep the luminaries stuck outside from freezing.
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Locusts need heavy rain to breed in these numbers, and climate change has contributed to many of the downpours that came to the affected regions after years of drought.
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The 238 flooding, triggered by heavy downpours, killed about 4003 people and displaced 2400 million more, causing billions of dollars in damages across 2400 million hectares (2000,860 square miles).
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A cold and blustery winter storm unleashed downpours and extensive snowfall on Southern California, triggering tornado warnings and snarling post-Christmas travel on major routes Thursday.
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Confrontations with security forces, which have left more than 110 dead over the last four months, were modest on Friday as protesters and police were doused by tropical downpours.
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It's the only member of its genus and it thrives deep in the jungle, surrounded by billions of other trees, drenched by the near-daily downpours it helps create.
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There's a flash flood watch as well as a wind advisory, with gusts up to 63 miles an hour, heavy downpours likely this afternoon and a high of 58.
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Light rain began Sunday into Monday, and heavier back-to-back downpours are expected to pulse across the state and even into sections of the southwestern United States through Friday.
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As climate change continues to increase the risk of major downpours, urban planners are going to have to think about how to allow excess water to drain away, experts say.
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He traveled with the young Fidel Castro around the country in jeeps, boats, and Soviet helicopters, photographing the charismatic leader giving speeches in tropical downpours, playing dominoes, and smoking cigars.
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They found that the planet Earth experienced 214% more record-breaking downpours between 240 and 214 than might have been expected had the climate not been changing (see chart 2).
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The next day, just as Jamie Jones was threatening to turn SXMusic into EssexMusic at Palm Beach, the rains came down again—hard, torrential downpours that seethed from every direction.
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As an analysis by Climate Signals notes, the United States has seen a 20 percent uptick in the amount of precipitation falling in the heaviest downpours over the past century.
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The rains have stopped in Nepal on Tuesday, but the disaster is far from over -- with heavy downpours expected to continue in India, Bangladesh and Pakistan in the coming days.
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But locals and experts say that Kashmiris need to keep their agricultural land to protect Srinagar from flooding, especially as the changing climate has increased the risk of heavy downpours.
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Farmers said they had expected downpours to be regular and abundant by mid-March in coastal and southern regions before moving gradually from April into the centre and the north.
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"Without democracy, how can we have the rule of law," the crowds yelled as they marched through sporadic downpours, from a muddy pitch to the city's harbor-front government headquarters.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Two people have died amid downpours in an eastern province of South Africa brought down their house, a few months after many were killed in another torrential rain.
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Meteorologists said major downpours were a classic phenomenon at this time of year but that exceptionally warm sea water along the Mediterranean coast of southern France probably reinforced the impact.
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Across the country, where separate downpours soaked parts of Colorado, a woman was found dead from apparent drowning in floodwaters that swept a basement apartment in suburban Denver, authorities said.
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While a sign outside the Tham Luang Cave warns that monsoon downpours can transform internal passageways into powerful rivers within a few hours, the boys had explored its caverns before.
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This includes Martinique, St. Lucia and St. Vincent, where rainfall generally will total up to 6 inches, with some isolated downpours of up to 10 inches, the hurricane center said.
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In Lagos, the most populous city in Nigeria and on the entire continent, streets become rivers during the rainy season as sewage channels and drainage systems are overwhelmed during downpours.
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Although the downpours have hit Peru during its traditional "landslide season," this year they have been much more intense and have fallen over a broader swath of Peru, Ruiz said.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Matches will be played on the middle Sunday at Wimbledon for the first time since 2004 after heavy downpours continued to plague the rain-ravaged tournament on Friday.
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Scientists are also sure that greenhouse gases — notably carbon dioxide — are trapping heat on the planet, downpours are getting more intense, and rising temperatures are driving increasingly extreme Western wildfires.
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Those with plans to travel on stretches of interstates 65, 69, 70, 90 and 94 late Sunday should be prepared to face times of low visibility and slow travel from downpours.
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About 60 students were stranded overnight Tuesday at a Cleveland, Texas, elementary school after downpours kept buses and parents off the roads, according to Cleveland Independent School District spokeswoman Susan Ard.
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More than 30 people have died in the U.S. Midwest following days of downpours that pushed the Mississippi and smaller rivers over their banks in several states during the holiday period.
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The result was a volley of torrential downpours—up to several inches per hour—with some parts of Louisiana clocking 24-hour precipitation totals that exceed the 500 year recurrence interval.
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Spring is just around the corner (read: slushy snow, downpours, and huge, unavoidable puddles), and nothing puts a damper on your day like a soggy, wet pair of socks and sneakers.
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The poll of 1,592 people showed a four-point lead for those who want Britain to remain part of the EU. Londoners battled downpours and flooding to vote in the referendum.
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Authorities banned all tourist trips and declared a state of emergency in the Red Sea port city of Aqaba further south as downpours continued for a few hours before subsiding overnight.
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At least 62 people have died in rain-related events since December, many in recent days after a sudden warming of Pacific waters near Peru unleashed torrential downpours, landslides and flooding.
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I was born and raised on the north side of Houston, and have lived through countless tropical storms, hurricanes, depressions, and torrential downpours, enough that these weather events often barely registered.
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A band of heavy downpours will drench northern California and heavy snow will fall in the Sierra Nevada mountains into Wednesday, exacerbating the threat of flooding, the National Weather Service said.
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In the Philippines, rescue workers were still struggling to reach some remote areas hit by floods and landslides that Tembin's downpours brought, as the death toll climbed to more than 230.
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In wetter areas, a warmer atmosphere retains more moisture and strengthens downpours, while higher sea levels increase storm surge and warmer ocean waters can contribute to the overall destructiveness of storms.
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David Waskow, of the World Resources Institute think-tank, said the rapid ratification was a sign of willingness to tackle emissions, blamed for heatwaves, floods, downpours and a rise in ocean levels.
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Following a relatively dry spell, fresh torrential downpours could pose a setback to rescuers who have struggled to drain the Tham Luang cave complex in the northern province of Chiang Rai. Weather.
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The downpours and floods hit a region near the medieval hilltop city of Carcassonne and dotted with stone villages on a sweep of land wedged between two mountain ranges and the Mediterranean.
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Essentially, the heaviest storms will become heavier in a warmer world, a pattern already seen today in North America, particularly in the increased number of heavy downpours in Northeastern and Midwestern states.
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Deadly downpours in recent weeks have led to floods and mudslides in the world's second-largest copper producer and third-biggest zinc producer, damaging a railway used to send concentrates to port.
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Romshoo said that farmers sell their land not only to make money quickly, but also because the changing climate has changed rainfall patterns, resulting in frequent droughts - as well as heavy downpours.
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The storm could produce 5 to 10 inches (12-25 cm) of rain with downpours between 0.5 inches to 0.75 inches per hour from Tuesday to Thursday, the National Weather Service said.
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The push has been particularly important as climate change leads to more extreme downpours, some of which last five hours at a time in the capital's rainy season, from March to September.
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MANILA, Dec 21 (Reuters) - A Philippine ferry carrying 251 people capsized on Thursday off an island south of Manila, the capital, a coast guard spokesman said, amid a storm bringing heavy downpours.
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First it must negotiate 2018, though the forecast for showers on Thursday and Friday is less dire than last year when heavy downpours and strong winds caused havoc on the first day.
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Eastern Tennessee, Georgia and the Carolinas The culprit is a moisture-heavy storm that brought downpours and flash flooding along the southern edge of Texas and snow and ice in the north.
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Following a relatively dry spell, fresh torrential downpours could pose a setback to rescuers who have struggled to drain the Tham Luang cave complex in the northern province of Chiang Rai. Weather.
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Weather officials warned of torrential downpours and strong winds in 15 provinces in the Thai south, home to one of the world's largest natural rubber plantations and several islands thronged by tourists.
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The railways run by the Japan Railway Company were battered by torrential downpours, as the storm led to 150 deaths and knocked out power to thousands the over the past few days.
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HONOLULU, Aug 214 (Reuters) - Hurricane Lane, a powerful Category 8 storm, spun slowly north out of the Pacific toward Hawaii on Friday, causing torrential downpours and catastrophic flooding on the Big Island.
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Heavy downpours hit the region on Saturday, prompting fears that the work of rescue crews and efforts by locals to salvage what they can from the fire could be made more difficult.
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OSLO (Reuters) - Scorching summer heatwaves and downpours are set to become more extreme in the northern hemisphere as global warming makes weather patterns linger longer in the same place, scientists said on Monday.
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Downpours in Mexico prior to Willa's arrival have heightened the risk of flooding, and the NHC said the storm could drench some areas in as much as 18 inches (45 cm) of rain.
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During heavy downpours in the rainy season - from November to March - Beira's ageing drainage system backs up within hours, forcing many people out of their homes, in particular in the slums, said Simango.
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Forecasters said the region&aposs siege of heat would gradually ease through the weekend, but the unstable air mass unleashed downpours that triggered flash-flood warnings for the mountains northeast of Los Angeles.
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Downpours in DC earlier during the day on Thursday led some to surmise the "Salute to Service" event would draw a relatively small crowd and end up being a reprise of his inauguration.
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Downpours in Mexico prior to Willa's arrival had heightened the risk of flooding, and the NHC said the storm could drench some areas in as much as 18 inches (45 cm) of rain.
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Despite the heavy downpours that come each rainy season, Mexico City, a mega-city of 21.3 million people, depends on depleting aquifers and has long struggled with providing enough water to its inhabitants.
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By tapping into subtropical moisture like a needle tapping into a vein, the storm systems are transporting huge amounts of water vapor, which is being converted to low elevation downpours and mountain snow.
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City farms increase vegetation cover, which sucks planet-warming carbon from the atmosphere, and can help lower the risk of flooding during heavy downpours, according to research published in the journal Earth's Future.
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TESLIC, Bosnia (Reuters) - Torrential rain and floods in some parts of Bosnia forced authorities to declare an emergency on Tuesday, while neighbouring countries were on alert and taking protective measures as downpours continued.
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Details like waterproof DryVent fabric, a hood, and an interior "media pocket" make this an exceptional option for heavy downpours, while adjustable buckles allow you to tailor the fit to your body type.
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Heavy rains fell overnight from central New York state south through eastern North Carolina, where the National Weather Service warned that a fresh round of downpours expected on Wednesday could cause more flooding.
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In the United States, heavy downpours in most parts of the country have increased "in both intensity and frequency since 573," a report by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration concluded in 2017.
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China's National Meteorological Center warned on Sunday that Lekima was moving northwards and was expected to make a second landfall along the coastline in Shandong late Sunday, bringing strong winds and heavy downpours.
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BANGKOK — Amid monsoon downpours, pro-democracy demonstrators sang and danced at a police barricade in Bangkok on Tuesday, marking the fourth anniversary of an army coup that again plunged Thailand into military rule.
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That level of rainfall would amount to about a third of the intensity of January's downpours, but still exceed the capacity of the region's catchment and drainage systems for controlling flash floods, she said.
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Not only do you face death from the downpours and starvation, you'll discover that the slugcat isn't the top predator around, but is also prey to the larger creatures in the game's terrific ecosystems.
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After months of destructive wildfires that have razed millions of hectares of land, Australia has been hit in recent weeks by wild weather that has brought heavy downpours, hail storms and a heat wave.
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They spent Tuesday braving downpours and listening to a cover band playing Southern rock standards such as Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Sweet Home Alabama" at an outdoor "45 Fest" the campaign organized to energize the crowd.
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After all, records show that the frequency of heavy downpours has increased along the Gulf Coast since the mid-20th century, which makes sense because a warmer atmosphere can hold and dump more water.
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Heavy rain and downpours will bring the chance of flooding across the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast through Saturday morning, then a relative drying trend will evolve through the weekend across much of the East.
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Peru's weather agency, Senamhi, put the country on alert for even more intense rains the rest of the week after downpours overwhelmed towns along the northern coast and in the central Andes and Amazon.
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One of the biggest speed bumps to preparing for El Nino's effect has been intermittent rain and dry spells on the West Coast — not steady downpours — that can trigger complacency about weather-related risks.
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ISIS goes global: 143 attacks in 29 countries have killed 2,043 Early warnings Like the low thunder that precedes Mindanao's downpours, there have been rumblings of Islamist uprisings on the island for some time.
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Torrential downpours washed away a section of a 60 meter (200 feet) concrete bridge in northern Shan state, while rice paddies and roads in the central Kayin state suffered extensive damage, state media reported.
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Florence drenched North Carolina with yet more downpours on Sunday, cutting off the coastal city of Wilmington, damaging tens of thousands of homes and threatening worse flooding as rivers fill to the bursting point.
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While it said there was no clear evidence whether climate change made hurricanes more frequent, when storms do take place warmer temperatures aggravate downpours, and higher sea levels can worsen storm surges, it said.
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The onslaught of wind and rain could inundate regions of China that are still reeling from a week of monsoon-related downpours that flooded cities and left at least 181 people dead or missing.
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Heavy rains on the Eastern seaboard fell overnight from central New York state south through eastern North Carolina, where the National Weather Service forecast that a new round of downpours could cause more flooding.
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The annual monsoon rains, which normally start in June and continue through September, are crucial for Nepal, a country of 30 million people, and India, which both depend on the annual downpours for farming.
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Even hardened adventurers could be convinced to choose the protection of Iris Burn Hut over the characteristic downpours of Fiordlands or the warmth of Mueller Hut over the unpredictable snowfields of the Southern Alps.
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Rain over the past week has caused flash flooding in areas unused to such downpours, with one of Sydney's main dams recording an increase in water of around 18 percent in under two days.
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Tomorrow night: Gusty wind, a couple downpours, and even a rumble of thunder are possible — and could even wake us in the predawn hours, when we have the highest chance of rain moving through.
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Last month, almost 200 nations agreed at a summit in Paris to phase out net greenhouse gas emissions this century to limit rising temperatures blamed for causing everything from more heat waves to downpours.
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Torrential downpours washed away a section of a 60 meter (200 feet) concrete bridge in the northern Shan state, while rice paddies and roads in the central Kayin state suffered extensive damage, state media reported.
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Waters and seas near Pahang's state capital Kuantan ran red earlier this week as downpours brought an increase in run-off from the ochre-red earth at the mines and the stockpiles, stoking environmental concerns.
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Downpours were expected to continue for several more days from southern New York to northern South Carolina, with similar patterns seen further west in southeastern Colorado and northern New Mexico, the National Weather Service said.
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A warmer atmosphere holds more moisture (the water content of air rises by about 21994% for every 21914ºC of warming) increasing the likelihood of sudden heavy downpours that can cause flash flooding across parched ground.
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After torrential downpours, it was a typically soggy affair at the U.K's famous Glastonbury Festival over the weekend, but that didn't deter Princess Eugenie and pals from enjoying the world's largest music festival in style.
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The risk of isolated tornadoes, high winds, baseball-sized hail and torrential downpours remains throughout the evening, while severe thunderstorms are likely to expand across the Midwest into Wednesday as a spring storm shifts east.
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The monsoon rains and the accompanying floods are an annual occurrence -- they bring much-needed water to farmers and drought-hit regions each year, but the sudden downpours also regularly trigger deadly floods and landslides.
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Much of the increase in the 2017/18 forecast will come from the country's east coast, the bureau said, after heavy downpours between March and June aided soil moisture, boosting the prospects of fledging crops.
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Schlepping through a muddy Welsh field on a cold, grey afternoon amid heavy downpours is about as far removed from the quintessential image of a sunny warm vineyard on the continent as you can get.
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The front, described as a "powerhouse of an upper level system," could pack downpours of more than an inch (2.5 cm) an hour as it hammers Pennsylvania and New York state, the weather agency said.
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BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Heavy downpours have ruined the harvest of nearly 43 percent of Argentina's soybean farms and could damage even more of the 2015-16 crop if rains extend into next week as expected.
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When I arrived, it was the end of the rainy season, and the sky still opened up for intense downpours in the middle of the afternoon heat, causing puddles to pool and gutters to overflow.
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Last year, residents of Whaley Bridge, a small town in northern England, were ordered to evacuate after a dam on a 19th-century reservoir that looms above their homes was seriously damaged by heavy downpours.
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Last year, residents of Whaley Bridge, a small town in northern England, were ordered to evacuate after a dam on a 19th-century reservoir that looms above their homes was seriously damaged by heavy downpours.
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Drought, more than heat, threatens the grapes, he said, adding that instead of steady rainfall, precipitation now comes in downpours that run off the hillsides and do little to slake the thirst of the vines.
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Indonesia's Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency warned that the city would be hit with more downpours in the coming days, and that extreme rainfall will continue across the country for the rest of the month.
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SYDNEY, Australia — Rural firefighters and farmers, as well as just about everyone in Australia's largest city, rejoiced Friday at the arrival of something not seen for months: heavy downpours of that magnificent gift called rain.
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That has now changed, with studies in recent years that found that climate change affected Australian heat waves in 2013, downpours in Louisiana in 2016, floods in France that same year and many other events.
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Between intermittent drizzle and drenching downpours, social workers climbed an embankment just off what they called the "zigzag" — an entanglement of roads and exits from the Henry Hudson Parkway and Riverside Drive in northern Manhattan.
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The Fund, set up in South Korea in 2014, is trying to help developing nations to cut their greenhouse gas emissions and adapt their economies to extremes such as floods, droughts, downpours and rising sea levels.
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The two big safety concerns in this desert region are sudden downpours that cause flash floods and haboobs, giant walls of dust between 1,500 and 3,000 feet high that can cover up to 100 square miles.
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Thousands of people have been stranded and at least five killed amid torrential rain throughout central and southern China, with authorities bracing themselves for at least another four days of downpours, state media reported on Tuesday.
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The newcomer turned out to be tiny a kitten who got caught in the torrential downpours caused by Hurricane Matthew, and was brought into the PetSmart's Banfield Pet Hospital by the concerned citizen who found her.
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Forecasters said the first hurricane of the Atlantic season could hit the state's swampy southern tip on Friday, with the biggest danger posed not by the wind but by downpours that could go on for hours.
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The Center for International Climate and Environmental Research, Oslo (CICERO) said it wanted to help investors judge risks from global warming such as more heatwaves, floods, downpours, the extinction of animals and plants and rising seas.
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Kenneth slammed into Mozambique's Cabo Delgado province on Thursday, killing at least 38 people, flattening entire villages and bringing relentless downpours that grounded aid operations and turned streets in the port city of Pemba to rivers.
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Weeks of flooding because of unseasonal downpours have killed 45 people and brought a halt to rubber tapping at the height of the season in a key area of the world's biggest exporter of natural rubber.
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KwaZulu-Natal province, where most of the deaths occurred after the downpours led to flooding and mudslides, has heavy rain every year, but they rarely kill so many people in such a short space of time.
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The state's soils "have become drier, annual rainfall has increased in most of the state, more rain arrives in heavy downpours, and sea level is rising about one inch every eight years," according to the EPA.
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While we're delighted that Four Weddings and a Funeral had a happy ending and we recognize that London is prone to downpours, having a heartfelt conversation as raindrops spill down your nose feels a little...miserable.
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LIMA, March 22 (Reuters) - Peruvian miner Milpo, controlled by Brazilian group Votorantim, declared force majeure on Wednesday after roads to its polymetallic mines El Porvenir and Atacocha in the Andes were blocked by recent deadly downpours.
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The system isn't perfect; in some parts of the country, the maps are outdated, and climate change is causing downpours in many areas to be more intense because of the additional moisture in the warmer air.
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Besides equipment corrosion from salt air breezes and heavy downpours, this decade's U.S. oil boom has also been hard on the ability of the reserve to speed oil to markets in the event of a disruption.
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Heavy downpours struck before dawn on Tuesday after 7,000 residents in Santa Barbara County were ordered to evacuate and another 23,000 were urged to do so voluntarily, some of them for a second time since December.
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The U.S. target under Paris, set by Obama, is to cut emissions by between 26 and 28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025 as part of global efforts to avert more downpours, droughts, heatwaves and floods.
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Britain recorded its highest-ever temperature of 38.7 Celsius (101.7 Fahrenheit) in July, while downpours last week led to flash floods, with 13mm (2 inches) of rain falling in just one hour, the national weather service said.
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Since early last week, a spate of deadly tornadoes has caused widespread damage across the central United States while torrential downpours unleashed record floods, turning highways into lakes and submerging all but the roofs of some homes.
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In the immediate area, the rain may fall slowly enough that it can soak into the ground but if heavier downpours develop, some pockets of flooding are possible in poor drainage areas and some streams may overflow.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Flash floods triggered by torrential rain have killed at least 22 people in India and forced more than 170,000 from their homes, officials said on Monday, as forecasters predicted more downpours in coming days.
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In 2017 Houston experienced its third "500-year flood" in less than four decades, California suffered five of its 20 worst wildfires ever and parts of the Indian subcontinent were underwater for days following epic monsoon downpours.
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The monsoon rains bring both relief and disaster every year -- they bring much-needed water to drought-hit regions, but the sudden downpours also trigger floods and landslides, especially fatal in areas without sufficient water storage infrastructure.
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The fatal floods began late last month amid freak downpours of rain, swamping homes inhabited by 32,000 people in almost 100 settlements as it swept through a swathe of southeastern Siberia, the Emergencies Ministry said on Wednesday.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha visited flooded parts of the south of the country on Friday where unseasonable downpours have killed six people, cut road and rail links and forced an airport to close.
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While the west remains dry, wet weather returns across the east this weekend: Tropical moisture and a monsoonal flow will keep the threat for storms, heavy downpours, and flash flooding across the Southwest and parts of Texas.
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On a day when the weather — gray and glum with scattered sunshine between downpours — reflected the city's collective emotions, they said they had come because each room in the center was like a page from a scrapbook.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Severe storms unleashed powerful winds, large hail and heavy downpours on Wednesday in the U.S. Southeast and parts of the Midwest, where several damaging tornadoes reportedly touched down and two people were injured, forecasters said.
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Moore said such long-term projections involve many uncertainties but add to existing concerns about more heat waves, downpours and droughts that mainstream scientists link to a build-up of man-made greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
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The thin layer of rubber on the sole of the shoes adds some protection in light rain, but you'll want to avoid wearing them in heavy downpours or through puddles because water will absorb into the jute.
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Worldwide, rising temperatures are on track to exceed goals set the 2015 Paris climate agreement to curb greenhouse gas emissions that are blamed for stoking heat waves, downpours, more powerful storms and a rise in sea levels.
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A sudden warming of waters off Peru's coast this year, as well as an unusual easing of trade winds, have unleashed torrential downpours that have killed dozens of people and displaced more than 100,000 in recent weeks.
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To prove the point, Mr. Kors listed other things he and Mr. Le Pere have done recently, including trips to Las Vegas (to catch Cher at Caesar's Palace) and MetLife Stadium (to see Beyoncé, despite torrential downpours).
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The child died when a tree fell on top of a mobile home in Pensacola, as Gordon whipped the region with tropical storm-force winds and heavy downpours, a spokeswoman with the Escambia County Sheriff's Office said.
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Apparently, sudden downpours of squid like a seafood-focused Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs are such a frequent occurrence in the 2019 Watchmen world that cities have early-warning air raid sirens to warn about them.
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As well as slowing field work, rain around harvest time can damage wheat quality, and downpours in southeastern Europe have raised concern that exporting EU members Romania and Bulgaria may have less milling-grade wheat than usual.
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The need for rapid global action is urgent because damage worldwide from extreme weather - from huge downpours to fires, floods and stronger storms - and from rising seas is "all happening much more quickly" than expected, he warned.
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More heavy downpours were forecast through Wednesday night over much of Oklahoma and Arkansas, with between 1 and 3 inches (2.5-7.6 cm) expected, said Patrick Burke, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center.
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China has promised to peak its carbon dioxide emissions by around 2030 as part of a 195-nation plan agreed in Paris in December to combat climate change, blamed for stoking more downpours, heatwaves and rising sea levels.
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Mave Grace's camp, on a hillside on the edge of the town of Bunia, is a sea of makeshift blue and white tarpaulin tents, inside which its temporary residents huddle from regular rainy season downpours, and the cold.
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If the storm is still of Category 2 or greater intensity when it hits Manila, the threat of flooding may be the greatest concern, given that the city is low-lying and suffers floods during more ordinary downpours.
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More downpours meant pitches and fairways were more likely to be soggy or unplayable while sea level rise was also aggravating erosion of coastal golf courses in Scotland, such as Montrose which dates back to 1562, it said.
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Passing them on a path to the course for their first round of the 270th United States Open was a separate wave of golfers, a rested group that had watched Thursday's downpours through the windows of secure shelter.
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Heavy downpours on Sunday night and early Monday forced some 3,000 people to flee to higher ground in California's Russian River valley, while about 400 homes were evacuated in Reno as the Truckee River topped its banks there.
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The downpours in other heavily populated areas of Southern California, including parts of Santa Barbara and Ventura counties also recently hit by wildfires, could create the risk of mud and debris flows there too, the weather service said.
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Last Thursday, the summer's final heatwave surrendered to torrential downpours until the skies cleared to a silent display of lightning dancing between two clouds far above the Public Theater's production of "Gospel" at the Delacorte in Central Park.
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The downpours top up the aquifers that slake the thirst of tens of millions of people in Brazil's cities and irrigate the farmlands that feed them, even those thousands of miles away and far from the rainforest itself.
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It can be tough to feel, on a gut level, the implications of a chart showing global temperatures ticking up over time, or statistics showing that, on average, 95-degree days or torrential downpours are becoming more frequent.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Thousands of people have been stranded and at least five killed amid torrential rain throughout central and southern China, with authorities bracing themselves for at least another four days of downpours, state media reported on Tuesday.
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Downpours on Sunday hit parts of the region after heavy rainfall and flash floods in areas on Saturday, making it harder for the authorities trying to locate survivors and locals hoping to salvage what they can from the disaster.
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In the future, the UW team hopes to push the topic further and see if certain types of rain, such as heavy downpours, are more susceptible to lunar phases and whether these phases affect the frequency of rain storms.
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There will be good years and there will be worse years, but the planet is generally getting drier: When it comes, rain will happen in often cataclysmic downpours, while the dry periods in between will grow longer and longer.
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Scientists worldwide are developing technologies like these to tackle the planet's biggest water challenges, such as the lack of clean water for 1.2 billion people and the rising threats of deadly downpours, droughts and flooding caused by climate change.
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Warnings of tornadoes, torrential downpours and potentially historic flooding means extra bad news for broad swaths of southeast Texas, already littered with uprooted trees, toppled signs, flagpoles snapped like toothpicks and homes missing rooftops and patches of brick walls.
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WILMINGTON/WILSON, N.C. (Reuters) - Deadly storm Florence drenched North Carolina with more downpours on Sunday, cutting off the coastal city of Wilmington, damaging tens of thousands of homes and threatening worse flooding as rivers fill to the bursting point.
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Heavy downpours triggered the floods, forcing more than 3,500 international and domestic tourists to be evacuated from the tourist city of Petra in southern Jordan, according to Jumana Ghuneimat, Jordan's minister of state for media affairs and government spokeswoman.
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A recent report from the Government Accountability Office warned that rising sea levels and heavier downpours fueled by global warming could increase flooding costs in coastal communities by $22060 billion per year by midcentury unless they start adapting now.
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With rain forecast in the coming days on the islands, Spain's weather agency said that red rain, in the form of downpours filled with red dust, could help put out the fires and remove the dust from the air.
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But downpours in the Midwest have increased during the past century due to climate change, and more intense rainfall events are expected in the future, according to the National Climate Assessment, an interagency report that examines the impact of climate change.
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More than 80 people have been killed and 110,000 displaced in rain-related incidents since December, most of them this month after a sudden warming of Pacific waters off Peru's coast unleashed torrential downpours in a damaging local El Nino phenomenon.
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At Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin Eve with Ryan Seacrest, multiple artists, including Christina Aguilera, Dan + Shay, Bastille, and New Kids on the Block, braved the wet conditions to perform their live sets, but were quickly soaked by the downpours.
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More than a week of violent weather, including downpours and deadly tornadoes, has devastated the central United States, bringing record-breaking floods in parts of Oklahoma and Arkansas, turning highways into lakes and submerging all but the roofs of some homes.
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"We've had one of the biggest downpours we have had in a long time," said Neil McGuigan, chief executive of Australian Vintage Ltd, one of the largest wine producers in the Hunter Valley, some 250 km (155 miles) north of Sydney.
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Crews battling the Spring Fire got a respite from the hot temperatures on Thursday, with rain forecast to move over the region, but heavy downpours could trigger flash flooding over the burn scar, according to InciWeb, a federal wildfire website.
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Late on Tuesday, Maue sent a link to a relevant new paper illustrating why it remains difficult (I'd assert a distraction) to find a signal of greenhouse-driven climate change in such storm events, or even patterns of rare heavy downpours.
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The nations said they would work in the light of a U.N. report by leading climate scientists, due for publication in October, about ways to limit a creeping rise in global average temperatures that is causing heat waves, downpours and droughts.
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Scientists in Peru now expect the localized version of El Nino that appeared suddenly off of Peru's coast this year to stretch into May, though April rains should not be as intense as the downpours still battering the northern coast.
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Scientists emphasize that hurricane damage, for example, may rise for three reasons: higher sea levels (due to warming) cause larger storm surges; warmer oceans add energy to hurricanes; and warmer air holds more water vapor that can cause torrential downpours.
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Rescuers managed to use a brief break in the downpours to send one helicopter packed with aid to the island of Ibo, where hundreds of homes were flattened by the second cyclone to hit the country in less than six weeks.
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LIMA (Reuters) - Severe droughts gripping Peru have given way to some of the country's most devastating downpours in decades, catching authorities off guard as they scramble to contain the kind of floods that climate change is expected to make more frequent.
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MELBOURNE, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Forecasts of rain and storms are expected to bring some relief to land scorched by Australia's months-long bushfires, but heavy downpours now bring the risk of landslides and water pollution, meteorologists and water authorities said.
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On a chilly day punctuated by downpours, we dashed from building to building, re-enacting the sodden life of misery as it was in the 1200s and learning about Norse mythology and the ships that brought the Vikings to inhospitable shores.
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In college, he learned of a farming technique called "no till," which is intended to more closely mimic the natural prairie ecosystem, and was intrigued by its promise to protect his family fields from Kansas' relentless winds and sudden downpours.
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More than a week of violent weather, including downpours and deadly tornadoes, has lashed the central United States, bringing record-breaking floods in parts of the states, turning highways into lakes and submerging all but the roofs of some homes.
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Heavy downpours struck before dawn on Tuesday after thousands of residents in Santa Barbara County along the Pacific coast north of Los Angeles were ordered to evacuate or urged to do so voluntarily, some of them for a second time since December.
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The primary concern for farmers in recent months has been a lack of rainfall, but after a couple of weeks of downpours farmers in the world's top cocoa producer are now hoping for less rain to protect yields as the harvest begins.
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Why now: An analysis of 200 years' worth of monsoon data revealed that over the past 9 years, Chennai has experienced more days with heavy downpours and less consistent rainfall, leading to faster runoff and a less manageable flow into reservoirs, CBS reports.
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Related: 'It's the new abnormal': Extreme downpours and flash flooding wreak havoc in Texas Some towns have been completely surrounded by water, hundreds of houses and buildings have been lost and at least hundreds of people forced to take emergency shelter, Rock said.
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"The cyclone has worsened the humanitarian situation in the two states and disputed regions, which have experienced protracted drought dating back to 2015, leaving them particularly prone to flash flooding in the direct aftermath of massive downpours," it said in a statement.
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Harvey, now downgraded to a tropical storm, bore down on eastern Texas and Louisiana on Wednesday, bringing the kind of catastrophic downpours that paralyzed the oil hub of Houston with record rainfall and drove tens of thousands of people from their homes.
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The Times has published an article by Jonah Engel Bromwich assessing the storm's consistency with climate change projections, but also noting that the South was not among the areas identified in the 2014 National Climate Assessment as most at risk from more downpours.
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From the very first year — when rain delayed the conclusion of Evert's semifinal and forced the men's and women's finals to be played back-to-back — downpours would flood the unsightly underbelly of Armstrong and its adjacent and more-quaint-for-spectating Grandstand.
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It is a ritual as familiar to the 78 mayors who oversee Puerto Rico's 78 large and small municipios, or municipalities — a few no bigger than several square miles — as the nighttime trill of the coquí frogs and the relief of summer downpours.
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Guerrilla rain, a term coined in the last decade, describes a storm in which clouds form at the same time that moist air from the ocean comes up against the warm air trapped among tall, packed buildings to create quick and heavy downpours.
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New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell said that the city had not ordered any voluntary or mandatory evacuations, but added that 48 hours of heavy downpours could overwhelm pumps designed to purge streets and storm drains of excess water in the low-lying city.
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Even in Britain, which has so far evaded the heatwave and where music lovers heading to the Glastonbury festival in wellington boots in anticipation of the traditional downpours and muddy fields, meteorologists were predicting a blast of hotter weather at the weekend.
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In the aftermath of that disaster, authorities instituted a policy of enforced evacuations in slide-prone areas of Santa Barbara and Ventura counties whenever forecasts call for downpours that might exceed the capacity of the region's catchment and drainage systems to control flash floods.
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Children, desperate to learn, sat in the street devouring cheap comics; in 1954 she set up Mu Kuang Middle School, which grew from a 30-desk army tent, flapping in winds and summer downpours, to a seven-storey block with 1,300 pupils by 2015.
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Djokovic, the No. 1 seed, was in good spirits as he overcame intermittent downpours, heavy conditions and a sluggish start to defeat 14th-seeded Roberto Bautista Agut, 3-6, 23-4, 6-1, 7-5, over two days to advance to the quarterfinal round.
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Current policies need to be ratcheted up to achieve a goal set in Paris of limiting global warming to "well below" 2C (3.6F) by curbing a build-up of man-made greenhouse gases blamed for causing downpours, heatwaves and rising seas, the scientists said.
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Other trends already pinned on human activities include an increasing amount of heat held in the world's oceans, the sharp decline in Arctic sea ice cover, and changes in the water cycle that are leading to heavier downpours as well as severe drought events.
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Over several days, punishing weather from that system struck from Texas to Michigan, with the heaviest downpours in eastern Arkansas and eastern Missouri; at least 20 deaths have been traced to the storms, which have also flooded thousands of homes and displaced their occupants.
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MANDALAY, Myanmar — Monsoon downpours that set off flooding and a landslide in Myanmar late last week have killed at least 51 people and left dozens more missing, the authorities said, in the deadliest natural disaster to strike a part of the nation's southeast in decades.
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Conagua, Mexico's national water authority, said the storm had caused heavy downpours to the east in areas on and around the coast of the Gulf of California in the states of Sinaloa and Nayarit, as well as parts of Sonora and Durango farther inland.
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MANDALAY, Myanmar — Monsoon downpours that set off flooding and a landslide in Myanmar late last week have killed at least 51 people and left dozens more missing, the authorities said, in the deadliest natural disaster to strike a part of the nation's southeast in decades.
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Severe downpours in the Houston area have become 167 percent more frequent in the past decade, which is commensurate with one of the best-understood and most confident predictions of climate science: Climate change is going to bring lots more heavy rains (and thus flooding).
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While the swiftly moving storm is not expected to linger over Florida for long, widespread heavy downpours will likely track inland to flood-stricken areas of the Carolinas even as rain-gorged rivers there begin to recede, National Weather Service meteorologist Ken Widelski told the conference call.
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Although the hurricane was downgraded to a Category 3 storm as it approached the U.S. mainland, winds gusts of up to 70 miles per hour (2000 kph) and heavy downpours were still reported across coastal communities in Florida, the National Hurricane Center said in an advisory.
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This means there's a gap between your ankle and the lip of the boot if you're wearing leggings or thinner pants, though, which I worried about for downpours — however, most rainy days are accompanied with an umbrella, and, even when they weren't, my feet stayed dry.
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Staying indoors during inclement weather is another respectable solution, but unfortunately, many people are obliged to leave their homes despite drizzles and downpours; for those who choose to live in North America's Pacific Northwest, electing to remain inside on rainy days results in full-blown hermit mode.
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Every attempt will be made to get the games in, and Williams, the stadium groundsman, said the field drainage system — which was put to the test by heavy downpours earlier this month — was enhanced for the series, with extra piping placed beneath a layer of stone chips.
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We were going at the exact wrong time, tourists and expats past told us, at the tail-end of the rainy season when the humidity pushes the heat index up 20 degrees and plans can be washed away in thunderous downpours that turn streets into rushing rivers of mud.
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Always on the hunt for innovative formulas to make our lives a little easier and less stressful, the editors at R29 did our due diligence to find the cream shadows that last through torrential downpours, tinted balms that look far chicer than lipstick, and foolproof base makeup that won't accentuate dryness.
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To maximize the benefit of the downpours captured in the rainy season, the reservoirs need to be teamed with drip irrigation and technical programs, alongside tree planting projects to protect watersheds, said Milton Funes, technical director for Global Communities, who helped develop rainwater harvesting systems in Honduras, including in Moraicito.
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Crews overwhelmed by thousands of rescue calls during one of the heaviest downpours in U.S. history have had little time to search for other potential victims, but officials acknowledge the grim reality that fatalities linked to Harvey could soar once the devastating floodwaters recede from one of America's most sprawling metropolitan centers.
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Less than a week later, Samarn, a former member of the Thai navy's SEAL unit, would die in the Tham Luang cave, the first casualty in a multinational operation to first find, then rescue the boys and their coach who went missing on July 23, after downpours flooded the cave network they were exploring.
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The camp marks a departure from the treacherous road the migrants undertook over the last three weeks, battling downpours and a punishing sun without cover, sleeping on cardboard cutouts on the street in small towns they had never heard of, and begging for coins with which to pay for access to rudimentary, filthy bathrooms.
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Although the WWA doesn't have the modeling capacity to look at the Texas rains, it did provide some previous data on the increase of very heavy precipitation in the US. "As for Houston, the recent rains there were also quite extreme and overall we do see a trend towards increasing heavy downpours," WWA's Heidi Cullen told Gizmodo.
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Some of the meteorological threats, like extreme downpours and heat waves, are sure to worsen in a human-heated climate, with warming from elevated levels of heat-trapping carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases seen by many climate scientists as already contributing to the severity of rains like those over Texas in recent days and Louisiana last year.
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But some officials say the boys could be out in days if the weather is on their side and enough water can be pumped out of the cave network to enable the boys to get out the same way they got in, just before heavy downpours hit the region, on foot through muddy tunnels, perhaps with some swimming.
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Amid so many heartbreaking cases, the Gonzalez Trejo family from Honduras stood out: The matriarch, Juana Isabel wept as she told us that three generations of the family -- the youngest just five months old -- had been sleeping on the streets for more than a week in the stifling heat and afternoon downpours, waiting for their next processing appointment, still nearly a month away.
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The Cranes Are Flying and I Am Cuba are well known in the United States, Letter Never Sent (1959) less so, but it's the latter film's amazing, long, often hand-held takes moving through dense brush, forests (at one point on fire), lakes, downpours and snow storms that clearly look like early models for what Lubezki achieves and, admittedly, surpasses here.
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Day-long downpours in recent weeks have beaten rainfall records in several districts in Peru's northern coastal region, which is home to scores of archaeological sites that date back to 1,500 years B.C. "All of the main historic monuments are being impacted by the erosion they're suffering from because of the rains and overflowing rivers," Alva told Reuters by telephone.
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Other risks could be compounded by climate change, with projections of more heavy downpours in a warming climate increasing the odds of the city's vital Catskills reservoirs being muddied more frequently — a condition that could require the construction of billions of dollars in filtration equipment that the city had avoided through environmental cleanups around the watersheds feeding into the system.
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At this point, it may seem like Governor's Ball is under an inclement-weather curse: For five of the past six years, the NYC music festival has been hit with torrential downpours, muddy fields, and thunderstorms, making any talk of the three-day concert more about ending up soaked — and how the hell you dress for such conditions — and less about the actual performances.
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Highlights Storm Florence drenched North Carolina with more downpours, cutting off the coastal city of Wilmington, damaging tens of thousands of homes and threatening worse flooding as rivers fill to the bursting point A woman who had anonymously accused Trump's U.S. Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, of sexual misconduct in the early 1980s went public, prompting Republicans to plan further discussions about his nomination before a committee vote this week.
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On an overcast day, I walked the beach between sporadic downpours to the more than 400-year-old Callwood Rum Distillery where Matthew Callwood, a distiller, bartender, tour guide and member of the family that has owned the distillery since the 1800s, led me and two cruise passengers on a tour ($5) of the mostly outdoor distillery works, including a 19th-century sugar cane crusher originally powered by harnessed donkeys.
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On Twitter, an investor in The Shade Room, Bryce Roberts cautioned, "All the publishers who say they'd start their next media company as a Facebook page take note…" Among others, new stories posted to The Shade Room site today included one lamenting the torrential downpours and flooding in Houston, Texas; and a story about a forthcoming documentary on R&B singer Chris Brown, which attempts to paint him in a sympathetic light after he was convicted of a domestic violence felony.
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