Sentences with phrase «caused by rain»

Cracking around the stem end is caused by rain or excessive irrigation.
Your homeowners insurance policy covers damage caused by rain, wind, and fire.
«So if your car's windows were left down, or the sunroof was left open, and rain gets in as a result, any water damage caused by the rain is unlikely to be covered,» Allstate explains.
It does not provide coverage for any flooding caused by rain or storm surge flooding, or water damage caused by an overflowing river.
But, instances of damage caused by rain water are not covered by the insurance company unless the authorities deem them as floods.
Sometimes in a hurricane it is difficult to distinguish if flooding caused water damage or, if a roof was blown off, the water damage was caused by rain.
But many more could be impacted due to another major issue caused by the rain.
The climate is unusually dry for a tropical location, this is caused by a rain shadow effect produced by the nearby Gloucester Island.
Salt in the sea, or ocean salinity, is mainly caused by rain washing mineral ions from the land into water.
The next Friday the same Bedouin complained of the destruction being caused by the rain, and after the Prophet prayed the sky above Medina cleared immediately.

Not exact matches

The storm passed just to the north of the island of Hispaniola, shared by Dominican Republic and Haiti, causing some damage to roofs, flooding and power outages as it approached the impoverished Haitian side, which is particularly vulnerable to hurricanes and rain, although it did not make landfall.
We believe rain is caused by the Earth's water cycle.
There are concerns torrential rain in the Philippines, caused by Typhoon Hagupit could now trigger landslides.
«We are praying for you and we are praying for our city, and for all of those affected by the devastating flooding and rains caused by Hurricane Harvey.
We have, for example, already taken some measures to deal with one of the probable causes of the growing holes in the ozone layer, and to reverse the destruction of European forests by acid rain.
if God is offended by something, and God is the All Powerfullest of the All Powerful Sky Pixies, then God is perfectly capable of expressing God's Own Displeasure by causing a rain of aircraft carriers and rabid weasels to fall upon the offender.
In Baton Rouge and its surrounding parts, the Area Chamber estimates that over 100,000 homes have been damaged or destroyed by the flooding caused by the mid-August storm that dropped over two feet of rain in a day's time.
We're polluting our oceans, destroying rain forests, changing ecological environments by damming rivers, causing the extinction of animal species, and so on.
«And of His signs is [that] He shows you the lightening [causing] fear and aspiration, and He sends down rain from the sky by which He brings to life the earth after its lifelessness.
Hollow core is a broccoli quality problem caused by rapid growth, usually when warm weather follows rain.
Being in the cold and rain would cause the balls to lose at least a pound of pressure, as demonstrated by experimentation.
Rainbows are seen in the sky opposite the sun and are caused by the refraction (bending of light) and dispersion (splitting up) of sunlight in drops of rain or mist.
They've opened up a few more spots (we're up to 70 seats from the original 55), plus the rain will cause some percentage of potential attendees to freak out and head straight home in classic DC - area fashion, so swing on by even if it's officially full by the time you click over to the signup page.
The money is aimed at helping the community recover after flooding in July caused by a torrent of rain in the span of only a few hours.
The overflows are often caused by moderate to heavy rain that stresses aging sewer systems.
This project is aimed at alleviating the damage caused by these natural rain events.
He ascribed cause of the flooding to the recent construction of flyover in the area by the past government, stating that the drainage systems in the area had been channel through the market while the gutters are not big enough to contain the floods whenever it rains.
Apparently not happy with the role played by the three Senators representing Kaduna State at the National Assembly (NASS) on the rejection of the $ 350 million world bank loan for Kaduna state, Governor Nasir el - Rufai on Friday rained causes on the senators and prayed God to punish them.
By triggering rain, Sands says, «they cause more plants.»
There, temperatures climbed as high as 42 °C, and an acid raincaused by sulfur dioxide fumes from the volcano — occasionally lashed the upper reaches of the mountain.
The Tibetan Plateau in China experiences the strongest monsoon system on Earth, with powerful winds — and accompanying intense rains in the summer months — caused by a complex system of global air circulation patterns and differences in surface temperatures between land and oceans.
The excessive heat increased the rate of water loss by evaporation and caused precipitation to shift from snow to rain, leaving a meager snowpack and parched reservoirs.
(Technical glitches caused by the heavy rains knocked out 13 responses.)
Acid rain is now caused by nitric rather than sulfuric acid — and it comes from more sources than the earlier acidic precipitation did
A shorter period covered by snow, more spring rain and faster snow melt can combine to release large amounts of runoff that have the potential to stress urban hydrologic systems and cause flooding in urban areas.»
Such technology could cut acid raincausing sulfur dioxide emissions by more than 90 percent, smog - forming nitrogen oxides by 75 percent, and — ultimately — capture more than 80 percent of the CO2 normally produced by combustion, storing it in nearby depleted oil fields by 2015.
The concentrated gas is «scrubbed» by sulfur - absorbent materials to remove the compounds that cause acid rain.
In Spain, there have been several years with less rain than normal, and according to a recent report by Unión de Pequeños Agricultores y Ganaderos (union of small farmers and ranchers, UPA), in 2017, droughts caused losses of more than 3,600 million euros in the agricultural sector in Spain, mostly due a big loss of productivity in crops.
If they looked upwards, they would be overwhelmed by the steady rain of neutrinos caused by showers of cosmic rays.
The main cause of acid rain is sulfur dioxide released by burning fossil fuels.
WHAT CAUSES THEM: Rivers swollen by heavy rains, rising sea levels or storm surges that push seawater into coastal areas.
Ongoing climate change caused by human influences will alter the nature of how rain and snow falls; areas that are prone to dry conditions will receive their precipitation in narrower windows of time.
Aquarius will be able to measure changes in salinity caused by evaporation, rain and snow, and melting sea ice.
The findings made news: «2013's flood - triggering rains not caused by climate change,» proclaimed Boulder's Daily Camera.
By FRED PEARCE On 1 March, negotiations begin for a new international treaty to limit the damage caused to the environment by acid raiBy FRED PEARCE On 1 March, negotiations begin for a new international treaty to limit the damage caused to the environment by acid raiby acid rain.
Government scientists from throughout Europe will meet in Geneva under the UN banner to thrash out a successor to the 1984 agreement, which is known as the ’30 per cent club» because it required nations to cut their emissions of sulphur dioxide, the main cause of acid rain, by 30 per cent.
In the 1980s fog grabbed attention again in the United States when researchers found it was contributing to the damage caused by acid rain.
This is almost as bad for farmers as drought, since the rain falls on parched ground with extra force, and much of it runs off without soaking into the ground, and it causes damage to boot by washing away soil and plants.
The study was set across a range of soil degradation caused by acid rain, which is a major stressor for sugar maple and a chronic issue in the Adirondacks.
Forests are also being destroyed by acid rain resulting from our pollution - causing activities and through the introduction of disease and invasive species.
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