rainfall

Example Sentences

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Excessive rainfall creating disease issues for beans limited the amount of cocoa coming out of West African ports.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

The category four system was forecast to bring "destructive wind gusts and heavy rainfall" to some coastal areas, the bureau said.

From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026

Across Europe, forests gave way to tundra, and rainfall patterns in lower latitudes shifted southward.

From Science Daily • Mar. 20, 2026

That includes Iran, which is straining under a historic drought made worse by years of mismanagement, while climate change jacks up temperatures and reduces rainfall.

From Salon • Mar. 17, 2026

Most of it is a fragile land base where the elevation is high, rainfall is scarce, and drought is a part of life.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz