Sentences with phrase «even during heavy rains»

It's amazingly waterproof, even during heavy rains.

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Zipline's rugged, fixed - wing drones have already made over 1,400 flights and delivered 2,600 units of blood, even during bad weather conditions involving heavy rain or wind in Rwanda.

At the beginning of the second cold era, heavy rains and severe floods devastated agricultural production, and during the subsequent famine people were forced to eat tree bark and even seeds from the excrement of wild geese.

On average in the United States, the amount of rain falling during the heaviest 1 percent of rainstorms has increased nearly 20 percent during the past 50 years — almost three times the rate of increase in total precipitation.4, 5 The Midwest saw an even larger average increase of 31 percent, surpassed only by the Northeast (at 67 percent).4 Scientists attribute the rise in heavy precipitation to climate change that has already occurred over the past half - century.6

Raw water quality is declining, affecting drinking water quality even with conventional treatment, due to increased temperature, as well as sediment, nutrient, and pollutant runoff during heavy rain and floods.

The IPCC SREX report (Seneviratne et al., 2012) defines them as having a 5 percent or 1 percent or even lower chance of occurrence during the same period, and other examples include 10 percent coldest nights, 10 percent warmest daily maximum temperature, 5 percent heaviest rain rate, etc..

According to residents, during heavy rains the cove had been known to flood their yards and even reach some of the homes, which was a huge concern with those cove waters heavily contaminated with oil.