rainy
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Thailand is used to wet weather and September is the peak of the rainy season, but several Bangkok residents said this year seemed worse than previous ones.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
"As far as I know, there was no warning. There were occasional mudslides and landslides, especially in the rainy season, but this one seems much more serious."
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
That can be doubly true if El Niño lives up to its rainy reputation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
“Treasury is not going to utilize its entire rainy day fund to fund its buyback program. This is not exactly Draghi-esque, a do-whatever-it-takes moment. This is not Ben Bernanke’s bazooka,” Brusuelas said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026
In the rainy season, the roads were a muddy mess.
From "Lost Boy, Lost Girl" by John Bul Dau
"When you get hot spells, they're that much hotter. And when you get rainy spells, they're that much rainier," he said.
From Barron's ● Jun. 19, 2026
It's possible there were more hostile places on earth on Wednesday evening than Pittodrie; windier, rainier, colder, noisier.
From BBC ● Dec. 4, 2024
February tends to be one of the city’s rainier months.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 7, 2024
The western is side rainier and denser in population, home to the state’s major universities and largest employers.
From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2023
And you know when it rains in Chicago it's wetter, and muddier, and rainier than any place in the world.
From One Basket by Edna Ferber
The decades of Genghis’s rise, the author tells us, were Central Asia’s rainiest in 2,000 years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
Local officials say this has been the rainiest February in the history of Juiz de Fora, with the current rainfall in the region already more than double the amount expected for the month.
From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2026
Ana Leon, 37, and her mother, Socorro Diaz, 63, had just wandered inside the Torrance mall and headed to a coffee shop — not the most ideal trip on the rainiest of days.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 24, 2025
Though Pu’u Kukui, the highest peak in the West Maui Mountains, remains one of the rainiest locations on the planet, the once-flourishing mid-elevation hillsides are droughted and eroding.
From Salon ● Dec. 7, 2023
Sometimes, on spring days, there will be the brightest, warmest sun and the darkest, rainiest clouds sharing the sky.
From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan
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