Sentences with phrase «threat of a downpour»

One minute all was grey with clouds hurrying past in a frantic rush overhead, changing the sky to an ominous colour with the imminent threat of a downpour,

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I don't know about you, but I find it nearly impossible to feel stylish once I'm facing the threat of an overcast or serious downpour.

Of course, nothing is ever as easy as it seems, and the threat of a torrential downpour and 60 - mile - per - hour wind makes for a logistical nightmare, not to mention the already grueling task of shuttling guests to various locations on the 100 - acre farOf course, nothing is ever as easy as it seems, and the threat of a torrential downpour and 60 - mile - per - hour wind makes for a logistical nightmare, not to mention the already grueling task of shuttling guests to various locations on the 100 - acre farof a torrential downpour and 60 - mile - per - hour wind makes for a logistical nightmare, not to mention the already grueling task of shuttling guests to various locations on the 100 - acre farof shuttling guests to various locations on the 100 - acre farm.

But for the moment, twin trends are exacerbating the threat: the urban rush in developing countries, in which millions of poor people are settling on fragile slopes and floodplains, and rising odds of rain falling in dangerous downpours in a warming world.

Some of the meteorological threats, like extreme downpours and heat waves, are sure to worsen in a human - heated climate, with warming from elevated levels of heat - trapping carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases seen by many climate scientists as already contributing to the severity of rains like those over Texas in recent days and Louisiana last year.