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.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
I noted their opinions but tucked them away in my head for a rainy day.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
On a rainy Monday night during a town hall event led by Greenpeace Australia Pacific at the Lane Cove library, locals say they were never consulted on their area becoming a data centre hub.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 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
They were the rainy stars, supposed to bring rain because the time of their evening and morning setting, which comes in early May and November, is usually rainy.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
"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
It’s possible that the Midwest and Great Lakes also have a rainier summer than usual.
From New York Times ● May 30, 2023
Beloved: The weather is as gray as England to-day, and much rainier.
From An Englishwoman's Love-Letters by Laurence Housman
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
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
When a new football stadium was built at South Alabama, located in one of America’s rainiest cities, the decision was made to go with an artificial turf playing surface.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 9, 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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