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torrential

adjective as in overflowing

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Flooding has submerged cars in one city as torrential rain has caused disruption across Wales.

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The threat of flooding once again looms over the city of Maiduguri, in north-eastern Nigeria, a year after torrential rains and the collapse of a dam left entire neighbourhoods submerged in water.

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Fatalities have been reported at the festival in the past, including a death during torrential rain in 2023 and a man who ran into the Man while it was on fire in 2017.

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The dramatic weather recalled torrential rains that flooded the camp in 2023, leaving thousands stranded in deep, sticky mud.

“This season of permanent torrential downpour gets to a point where you’re like, ‘Enough,’ he says with a sigh.

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