rain
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In athletics, where rain tumbled down over several days, Thai sprinter Puripol Boonson did the 100m-200m double and was named men's MVP.
From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026
The heavy rain helps the emergency services to put out the fires.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
A good car balance should put Verstappen in a good place for a race that will be dominated by tyre degradation in the stifling heat, whether the threatened rain holds off or not.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
The 2021 spill was related to poor maintenance, not an overwhelming amount of rain, said Mark Gold, director of the California Ocean Ecosystem Monitoring Program at UCLA.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
The leaflets fall on the country like rain.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
Los Angeles officials are bracing for more trouble if the forecast “super” El Niño brings heavy rains and flooding.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
“Cooling rains in Texas may create more physical market weakness, and Week 3 warming is lowering projected heating demand,” says EBW Analytics in a note.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
Heavy rains have killed eight people in Thailand since mid-September, the government said Monday as Bangkok battled flooding for a fourth consecutive day, with at least eight more confirmed dead in neighbouring Myanmar.
From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026
Polo, a Category 4 hurricane with sustained winds of 140 mph, is on track to make landfall in Baja California Sur on Monday, unleashing heavy rains and flooding there.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026
The heavy rains had cooled the air some, and I took big gulps of it as I ran.
From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce
It hadn’t rained for 61 consecutive days—beating the previous record of 36 days set in 1976.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
"It rained all night, but we stayed put till the choppers came for us," he added.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
According to scientists, the key question is not "Has it rained?" but "have water resources recovered?"
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The first day all the members of the Women’s Professional Baseball League were at the same field, it rained.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
But Pa was in the house when it rained, and he began again to play the fiddle after supper.
From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
It was raining, and there were no customers.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026
"I love it under here, when it's raining you can walk to the shops without getting your hair wet."
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
All of this would happen because the financial professional had read the midyear reports raining down from major financial institutions.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026
Even though it was raining over there at the time, it was still a lot of fun.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026
Soon it started raining; then came a hailstorm.
From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple
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Physical Geography - Introductory
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