This rainfall cycle, this rainfall factory, effectively feeds an agricultural economy of the order of 240 billion dollars worth in Latin America.

The Euro s Hard Rain Falls

So Brazil has 1,782 millimeters per year of precipitation of rain.

The heavy rain caused all the trains to stop.

Despite the heavy rain, they marched along.

In one instance, heavy rains had washed mines down to the centre of the village.

Average rainfall reaches 100 200 mm in the northeastern areas and 200 300 mm in the northwestern areas.

The total lack of infrastructure in south Sudan, together with heavy rains, creates difficult problems.

The rains that cause these floods originate in Angola, flow into Namibia's Cuvelai basin, and fill the Oshanas (Oshiwambo flood plains) there.

Over the past few days, several Egyptian governorates and cities have been engulfed by a severe wave of flash floods and heavy rains.

But then the monsoon arrives, and unfortunately downriver there is always a dam or there is always a barrage, and, shoop, they get washed down to their doom.

Only heavy rains will stop the flames, but these are not expected until the end of the month.

Saudi Arabia's citizen media community pulled all the stops to cover torrential rains which struck Riyadh today.

The dry season is long, interspersed with heavy rainfall during the rainy season, which peaks during January and February.

Precipitation is moderate to heavy in most parts of the country the heavier rainfall occurs in the low lying hot zone.

Climate change in Venezuela, in particular heavy rains, have caused significant damage to its rich architecture.

Yet some countries with abundant natural resources do perform better than others, and some have done well.

In July 2004, heavy monsoon rains caused extensive flooding in a large area of Bangladesh.

Torrential rivers on the slopes of the mountains produce a large hydroelectric power potential and add their volume to the navigable rivers in the valleys.

But the question arises Okay, so how much do Uruguay, Paraguay, Argentina and indeed the state of Mato Grosso in Brazil pay for that vital input to that economy to the state of Amazonas, which produces that rainfall?

Heavy rains in the Khatlon region further damaged the infrastructure that had already been adversely affected by high levels of snowfall.

As floods and torrential rains keep plaguing many regions of Madagascar, a few citizen initiatives have taken it upon themselves to provide relief to those displaced by the disaster.

One of the factors leading to low rations in August was the loss of early crops of wheat and barley caused by heavy floods.

Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together to Jerusalem within the three days it was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month and all the people sat in the broad place before God's house, trembling because of this matter, and for the great rain.

Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together unto Jerusalem within three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month and all the people sat in the street of the house of God, trembling because of this matter, and for the great rain.

A book published in 2006 noted that in an Oregon community, infections are more common in winter months during heavy rains.

For this it is necessary that the high atmospheric torrential rain instability in the lower air layers to combine with a significant amount of water vapors.

In January 2005, torrential rains caused severe flooding in the densely populated coastal regions of Guyana, including the capital, Georgetown.

On the positive side, the heavy rains increased water levels in reservoirs and many counties were therefore enjoying better power generation and more hours of power supplies.

This part of China s southwest, known for its abundant rainfall, mountains, underground rivers and caves, and tropical flora, has recently been gripped by a drought that many say is the worst since the Ming Dynasty.

On 5 June, Mexico sent 19 tons of food and medicine in response to the crisis caused by the heavy rains that devastated Haitian communities along the border with the Dominican Republic.

In 2000, Stewart Mayhew, Assistant Chief Economist at the US Securities and Exchange Commission s Office of Economic Analysis, surveyed the extensive literature on this topic.

Extreme rainfall events will also become more frequent and intense in a warmer climate, owing to another simple fact of physics warm air can hold more moisture.

Note First leg originally played on 20 March 2011 (kick off 15 00 ), but abandoned after half time with score 0 0 due to torrential rain, and replayed the next day.

The summer monsoon brings heavy rains to most of the archipelago from May to October, whereas the winter monsoon brings relatively cooler and drier air from December to February.

Extensive areas of the Caribbean interior are permanently flooded, more because of poor drainage than because of the moderately heavy precipitation during the rainy season from May through October.

The humidity from the heavy rains in combination with high temperatures during the month led to an increase in cases of diarrhoea, mainly because children were swimming in polluted rivers and irrigation canals.

What we don't know is the exact, precise, immediate impact of these changes on natural climate patterns winds, ocean currents, precipitation rates, cloud formation, things that bear on the health and well being of billions of people.

Early in 2005 most of the Central Asian region suffered from adverse weather conditions heavy rains and snowfall were reported throughout Afghanistan, Pakistan and Tajikistan.

Despite the prominence of early modern intellectual historians (those studying the age from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment), the intellectual history of the modern period has also been the locus of intense and creative output on both sides of the Atlantic.

Concerned that Malawi continues to face natural catastrophes such as drought, floods and heavy rains, causing serious crop failure, loss of life and extensive damage to property and infrastructure,

In the United States, nearly half the country continues to suffer from drought, while heavy rainfall has broken records in the Northeast, devastated crops in the South, and now is inundating Colorado.

Due to heavy rain preceding the German attack, only one of the roads was in good enough condition to be used as a crossing point the northernmost road, which crossed the Our at Dasburg on its way to Clerf and Bastogne.

According to the Food Security Analysis Unit (FSAU) of Somalia, Heavy rains in Somalia over the past year have ended a drought cycle that had lasted more than three years, but have also led to flooding and livestock deaths .

And, of course, in the modern world, with the environmental movement, we're becoming even more aware of the connectivity of things, that something I do here actually does matter in Africa, that if I use too much of my carbon allowance, it seems to be that we are causing a great lack of rain in central and eastern Africa.