pluvial
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There has also been pluvial - or surface water - flooding, which is a direct result of intense or prolonged rainfall that overwhelms drainage systems.
From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2026
Averaged out at the global scale, the team found that 15.46% of all meteorological droughts were succeeded by a pluvial the following season.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 24, 2024
The flash flooding—experts call it pluvial flooding—that hit Zhengzhou, in contrast, showed how quickly torrential downpours can turn deadly in a densely packed modern city.
From Science Magazine ● Jul. 29, 2021
Due to less evaporation and more precipitation, many large lakes formed in the basins of the Basin and Range Province called pluvial lakes.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2017
The cayos are composed of rocks, and not of sands, and their smallness renders it extremely improbable that the pluvial waters should unite in a permanent lake.
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 by Alexander von Humboldt
