wettest
Example Sentences
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Despite a mostly dry weekend for many, last week was the wettest week in England since early February, according to the Environment Agency.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
Rain is forecast to start Saturday night across Southern California, but Sunday is expected to be the wettest day of the weekend with widespread but light rainfall measuring less than a quarter inch.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
The winter of 1982-83 was California’s wettest in 131 years of record-keeping, according to Alex Tardy, a former meteorologist for the National Weather Service office in San Diego.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
Aultbea in the Scottish Highlands has recorded 389.6mm of rain so far this summer - more than one and a half times the seasonal norm, and only 10.2mm short of its wettest summer on record.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
The highest population densities of Aborigines were in Australia’s wettest and most productive regions: the Murray-Darling river system of the Southeast, the eastern and northern coasts, and the southwestern corner.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
