(n.) A pouring or streaming downwards; esp., a heavy or continuous shower.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some retailers said April's downpours led to pent-up demand which was unleashed at the first sign of summer, with shoppers rushing to update their summer wardrobes.
(2) The warm weather will not reach all parts of the country, however – with pockets of north-west England still expecting showery downpours this weekend.
(3) Boxing Day sales shoppers were soaked as downpours continued across the country on Wednesday, and there were warnings that an Atlantic storm would bring more heavy rain at the weekend.
(4) Downpours of up to 40-50mm could fall in the next 24 hours as the rain reaches Lancashire and Cumbria initially and then crosses the Pennines, gaining in intensity.
(5) Hart conceded his mistake at Ludovic Obraniak's corner had cost his team – "I came out and didn't get there, so it's my fault and that's cost us the three points," he said – even if the home side merited their point on a stodgy surface that was still saturated from the downpour the previous night.
(6) Kerry McQuade whose home perched high up on Blenheim Street avoided the worst effects, said: "We had two hours of a torrential downpour, followed by continual rain, from lunchtime.
(7) In London, the Thames Barrier was raised on Thursday morning for the first time since March 2010, to reduce the risk of flooding as water from days of downpours causes high levels further upstream.
(8) We have seen upsets and outbursts, sunshine and downpours, staggering exits and gaudy new arrivals.
(9) The downpour notwithstanding, a few hundred people gathered in the square erupted in applause and shouted Obama’s name as the first family stepped forward.
(10) A succession of storms, some very high tides and incessant downpours this winter have brought into stark relief Britain's exposure to the weather.
(11) As for the rainstorm in the US, its fatal unpredictability was shown when a Thursday morning downpour dumped 4 inches on Spartanburg, South Carolina, causing flash floods that submerged several cars.
(12) "There is also an ongoing risk of flooding from groundwater, particularly in Dorset, and some larger rivers like the Thames and Severn are still rising as they slowly respond to the recent downpours.
(13) Thames Water , one of seven companies in southern and eastern England that introduced restrictions on water use on 5 April, said the recent downpours may have staved off further curbs against drought but did not amount to "a long-term fix".
(14) The environment select committee's report also said the government's spending by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) to protect homes from flooding is not keeping pace with the rising risk, which is increasing as climate change intensifies downpours, and were also failing to act effectively to block the building of new homes on floodplains.
(15) Lee’s coffin, draped in Singapore’s red-and-white flag and protected from the downpour by a glass casing, lay atop a ceremonial gun carriage that was solemnly led past city landmarks from parliament to a cultural centre where the state funeral was held.
(16) More heavy downpours will continue on Thursday and Friday as fresh bands of rain sweep east, followed by a storm this weekend.
(17) The deluge that has engulfed southern and central England in recent weeks is the worst winter downpour in almost 250 years, according to figures from the world's longest-running weather station.
(18) Many residents say the Environment Agency should have pumped water away from the moors sooner following the spring downpours and claim it is not doing enough to keep rivers and streams dredged or to find alternative ways to store floodwater.
(19) The report reveals that while downpours and storms have not been out of the ordinary, their frequency has been.
(20) Warmer temperatures and frequent downpours speed up the breeding cycles of the insects.
Rainstorm
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Example Sentences:
(1) That means floods, droughts, heatwaves and heavy rainstorms are much more likely, as global warming gathers pace.
(2) Another risk is to Wi-Fi internet access and other communications because higher temperatures can reduce the range of wireless communications, rainstorms can impact the reliability of the signal, and drier summers and wetter winters may cause greater subsidence, damaging masts and underground cables.
(3) As for the rainstorm in the US, its fatal unpredictability was shown when a Thursday morning downpour dumped 4 inches on Spartanburg, South Carolina, causing flash floods that submerged several cars.
(4) A dangerous rainstorm drenching the US east coast brought more misery on Sunday to South Carolina , cutting power to thousands, forcing hundreds of water rescues and closing scores of roads because of floodwaters.
(5) Presenting the report, the secretary of state for the environment, Caroline Spelman, said that higher temperatures can reduce the range of wireless communications, rainstorms can impact the reliability of the signal, and drier summers and wetter winters may cause greater subsidence, damaging masts and underground cables.
(6) A deadly rainstorm led to tragedy and much destruction this week in Salgar, Colombia .
(7) Weather officials said the mountains and the Antelope Valley foothills north-east of Los Angeles were under the most risk, but there was only a small chance of rainstorms like those that prompted flooding in California on Thursday.
(8) The experiments reported in this paper were designed to examine the collection efficiency of gummed paper for wet deposition of several types of soluble and insoluble radioactive contaminants under conditions similar to those found during natural rainstorms.
(9) The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) Justice Ginsburg: 'Throwing out preclearance...is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet' June 25, 2013 She appeals to Congress' right to reauthorize the legislation (as it did most recently based in 2006) on its own judgment, based on current conditions, and lists a number of recent examples of where discrimination has taken place.
(10) The pigs are prodigious diggers and tropical island's torrential rainstorms then wash the soil out to the waters that are home to renowned sharks and corals.
(11) Using surface concentration and reaction rate as the main criteria for the feasibility of condensation reactions, four types of prebiotic environments were analyzed: (1) an ocean-sediment system, (2) a dehydrated lagoon bed produced by evaporation, (3) the surface of a frozen sediment, and (4) a fluctuating system where hydration (rainstorms, tidal variations, flooding) and dehysration (evaporation) take place in a cyclic manner.
(12) Europe, overall, was warmer than usual but the heat turned quickly to massive rainstorms.
(13) The mudslides that accompany tropical rainstorms often leave thousands homeless and forced to seek shelter in informal settlements.
(14) A rainstorm an hour before kick-off had softened the ground at the Lamex Stadium.
(15) OCLP closed its final polling station at the university's student union building at 10pm local time on Sunday, amid intermittent rainstorms.
(16) At least 169 were killed by a massive rainstorm in the summer of 2012.
(17) It was almost midnight, curfew time, and a rainstorm unleashed thunder and lightning over Ferguson, the Missouri town rocked by a week of race-fuelled violence.
(18) But as Justice Ginsburg wrote in her striking dissent, ‘Throwing out pre-clearance when it has worked and is continuing to work … is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet.’
(19) But Feinstein reserves great praise for a key scene in which Stone and Firth shelter from a rainstorm together: it possesses an "aching beauty" and is "pure magic".
(20) The end of the epidemic coincided with a heavy rainstorm.