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

Adj. fluent; diffluent†, profluent†, affluent; tidal; flowing &c. v.; meandering, meandry†, meandrous†; fluvial, fluviatile; streamy†, showery, rainy, pluvial, stillicidous†; stillatitious†.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark