rainy
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Landslides are a recurring hazard in Ethiopia during the country's main rainy season, which typically runs from June to August.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
You “absolutely need a mudroom,” in the Northeast, since people walk in with snow and rain on their boots and need a place to drop off “sporty, sweaty, muddy, rainy, snowy” stuff.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026
Persistent inflation also means Americans are socking away less for retirement or a rainy day.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
What surprised the researchers was that the ancient drying event on K'gari appears to have occurred during a relatively rainy period.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 2026
Only one thing in this room is soft: Amma's voice, saying, "Looks like the rainy season is over and the sun-god wants to wish you a happy birthday, Kabir."
From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman
"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
And finally, as a major storm caps California’s wet season with more rain, winds and snow, lately making L.A. rainier than Seattle, Southern California begins to dry out.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2023
They all go in, and when it's time, we let the flood begin; The rainier it rains the more we like it staying in.
From A Jolly Jingle-Book by Chandler, Laura
One of the rainiest springs on record boosted warm soup sales while denting those for sun cream, new figures suggest.
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2024
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
By many measures, L.A. was far more prepared than San Francisco when it encountered its rainiest day of the water year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2023
The year that Goodyear moved to Los Angeles, in the winter of 2004-05, was among the region’s rainiest, and her memories of that time are of slick roads and fallen palm fronds.
From New York Times ● May 24, 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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