Sentences with phrase «record rains in»

The forecast ignored previous drought and flood cycles, and was demolished by record rains in 2011, 2013 and 2014.

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He also warned of an increase in record - breaking, intense rainfall, such as the Houston downpour in April that dropped four months worth of rain in less than 24 hours.

On Tuesday, a rain gauge near Highlands, Texas registered 51.88 inches of rainfall — breaking the record for most rainfall from a single storm in the entire continental US.

The National Hurricane Center on Tuesday afternoon said a record 51.88 inches (131.78 cm) of rain has fallen in Texas due to Harvey, a record for any storm in the continental United States.

Since Hurricane Harvey made landfall on Friday, records amount of rain have hit the southeast Texas, causing billions of dollars in damage.

Since Hurricane Harvey made landfall on Friday, it has brought with it record amounts of rain and caused billions of dollars in damage.

As the wettest storm on record in US history bore down in the last days of August — dropping five feet of rain in some areas — completely inundating Houston, killing more than 70 people, and damaging almost 200,000 homes, at least five prisons on the east coast of Texas were evacuated.

Haiti did not take a direct hit from Irma, one of the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes on record, but it unleashed rains that washed away fields of rice and plantains in coastal areas.

It has rained like crazy in Texas and even Louisiana has made national news with record flooding.

While it's hard to say if the punishing number and intensity of storms were due to climate change, climate scientists have now determined — in two separate research efforts — that Hurricane Harvey's record - blasting rains (best measured in feet for much of Houston) were likely amplified by climate change.

Harvey dumped more than 4 feet of rain on Houston, setting a new record for the greatest amount of rain recorded from a single tropical storm or hurricane in the continental United States.

According to the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE), the total area planted to winter crops is forecast to be a record 19.2 million hectares in 2000/01, following good planting rains across most grain - growing areas in the eastern states.

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS By Gordon Platt The falling yen is raining on Japan's parade of overseas acquisitions, which had a record - breaking year in 2012, when the yen was rising.

But Jesus told us to offer grace without boundaries, recorded in Matthew 5f, that we were to be perfect as our heavenly Father — who even causes the rain to fall of the fields of the righteous and unrighteous.

It has been an unusual summer... first the cold wet start of it and then the heat and then storms... seems I had to run around and unplug everything every week or so... just disruptive to our regular routine... but we got the hay up without a drop of rain on it... so our record is now 5 years in a row of putting up good hay.

He sold more than 100 million records during his career and won the Academy Award for Best Original Song Score for Purple Rain in 1985.

We experienced a record - nearing streak of 15 consecutive days of rain in early May, and now that the world is no longer permanently damp, I've been spending most of my spare time running (I have an ultramarathon coming up in July), biking, and playing soccer or tennis.

And that was what she wore as she crossed the finish line in the rain, an upset winner in the women's race with an American record of 2:35:15.

On Oct. 1, a 4 - year - old gelding named Silver Icon won a 6 1/2 - furlong race in the world - record time of 1:13 [3/5]-- and it had rained that morning.

Buffalo recorded 2.01 inches of rain Sunday, breaking the Nov. 5 record set in 1985.

Torrential rains across Long Island broke a New York state record on Wednesday with over thirteen inches in less than twenty four hours.

Mr Appiah Stadium, a former security man at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium in Kumasi, put the whole nation in shock as he recorded a two - minute audio in which he rained insults on President Akufo - Addo last week.

A record 30in of rain (75 cm) has fallen on the city in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, turning roads into rivers.

Some 0.91 inches of rain has fallen, breaking the previous record of 0.62 inches, set in 1972.

Record - setting rainfall in Western New York, combined with high rivers and wet soil from rains in the past two weeks, caused flooding in some areas.

But she has also been criticized on her environmental record, including her vote to reject Environmental Protection Agency carbon limits for coal - fueled power plants, a chief cause of acid rain in the Adirondack Park.

Waterproof at up to 100 feet, you can swim with Campark or take pictures and record videos in the rain.

«This is one of the most representative records of precipitation changes in the eastern Pacific, and it goes a good way toward explaining seasonal tropical rain band and El Niño dynamics,» said first author Daniel Nelson, who did the research for his UW doctorate in oceanography.

In September 2009, Typhoon Ondoy dumped record rainfall on Metro Manila and surrounding provinces, including Laguna — a month's worth of rain in just 6 hours, which caused reservoirs, lakes, and waterways overflowing to an extent not seen in decades; part of the image collection of the International Rice Research Institute, www.irri.orIn September 2009, Typhoon Ondoy dumped record rainfall on Metro Manila and surrounding provinces, including Laguna — a month's worth of rain in just 6 hours, which caused reservoirs, lakes, and waterways overflowing to an extent not seen in decades; part of the image collection of the International Rice Research Institute, www.irri.orin just 6 hours, which caused reservoirs, lakes, and waterways overflowing to an extent not seen in decades; part of the image collection of the International Rice Research Institute, www.irri.orin decades; part of the image collection of the International Rice Research Institute, www.irri.org.

After several record - breaking drought years, the Amazon is approaching a tipping point when its «rain machine» may malfunction, putting South American agriculture in peril.

In addition, during the warmest years — particularly the record - breaking 1997 - 1998 El Nino episode — the rain - forest trees experienced the least growth and expelled the most carbon dioxide, the scientists report.

Instead of going from sky to rain, into rivers, and then back into the oceans in the usual water cycle, it got stuck in Australia, caught up in record - breaking floods and rivers that run backwards into the continent.

In a second experiment they played recordings that either started abruptly, like a snake attack, or gained intensity gradually, like rain.

Similarly heavy rain fell on Australia in 1973 - 74, but sea - level records from then are not detailed enough to draw conclusions, and the three climate systems might not align again for decades.

Bradfield Lyon and David DeWitt of Columbia University in New York examined records of the long rains and found that they have been much more likely to fail since 1999.

3 There are parts of the Atacama Desert in Chile where no rain has ever been recorded.

When it rains, it pours in the Indian town of Cherrapunji, which since 1861 has held the world record for rainiest 12 - month period.

Last year was a record one for dust production in the United States, when sparse and badly timed desert rains produced the lowest vegetation cover on record and 5 to 20 times as much dust as usual from the Colorado Plateau into the mountains.

The dryness out West is in stark contrast to the rains that fell elsewhere and made June the sixth wettest on record.

It is a drizzly Sunday afternoon in April, three months after a devastating flood that drenched a landmass the size of France and Germany combined and isolated the town after the rain - swollen river rose to a record 45 feet.

It may also help to explain the record rains experienced in England during December and January.

UNDER WATER More than 60 centimeters of rain inundated parts of Louisiana (Baton Rouge shown) in August 2016, driving river gauges across the state to near - record levels and costing more than $ 10 billion in damages.

What do the torrential rains that swept across a swathe of East Africa in 1997 have in common with the record - breaking drought that Australia has just emerged from?

Record amounts of rain in the Northeast helped boost the number of rainouts in Major League Baseball to 51, or 20 more than the average for the past five years.

On Sept. 12, Boulder, Colo., saw a record 9.08 inches of rain — the most rain ever recorded there in a single day.

For example, rock records of an isotope of strontium — 87Sr — seem to show an increase in so - called chemical weathering, or weathering that is not simply the result of rain or other natural but not life - related processes.

Nearly 70 centimeters of rain in 24 hours drenched Hilo, Hawaii, in early November, obliterating the previous one - day record by 13 centimeters.

After a relatively dry April and May, the heavy rains in June produced record discharge and nutrient loadings from the Maumee River, which runs through Toledo, Ohio as well as northeastern Indiana, will result in a more severe bloom.

Lacking detailed historical records of what substances were typically found in American rainwater prior to industrialization, researchers decided to measure the next - best thing: unpolluted rain from the most remote regions of the world.