torrential
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After firefighters extinguished the Jan. 1 blaze, torrential winds reignited the embers a week later.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 24, 2026
Last year, 80 percent of Bogus Basin’s pile survived torrential rainstorms and stretches of record summer heat.
From Slate • Apr. 11, 2026
The term refers to warmer-than-average waters along the equatorial Pacific that can influence weather across the globe, raising the odds of searing drought in some regions and torrential rain in others.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026
In Dawlish, Devon, two black swan nests and 10 eggs were washed away after consecutive January storms brought torrential rain and caused the brook to breach its banks.
From BBC • Mar. 1, 2026
During his presentation, a torrential rainstorm fell and the black sounds of the duende shivered in the air with mystery and anguish and death.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
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