rainy
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Thailand is used to wet weather and September is the peak of the rainy season, but several Bangkok residents said this year seemed worse than previous ones.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
I noted their opinions but tucked them away in my head for a rainy day.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
"Our wardens have gone from supporting firefighters with the wildfires and, the first rainy weekend, they're off finding abandoned wild camps. They have had quite the summer," said Lally.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
“Treasury is not going to utilize its entire rainy day fund to fund its buyback program. This is not exactly Draghi-esque, a do-whatever-it-takes moment. This is not Ben Bernanke’s bazooka,” Brusuelas said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026
By two o’clock in the morning, most likely thanks to a combination of rainy weather and people getting tired, the city was quieting down.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
"When you get hot spells, they're that much hotter. And when you get rainy spells, they're that much rainier," he said.
From Barron's ● Jun. 19, 2026
It's possible there were more hostile places on earth on Wednesday evening than Pittodrie; windier, rainier, colder, noisier.
From BBC ● Dec. 4, 2024
It’s possible that the Midwest and Great Lakes also have a rainier summer than usual.
From New York Times ● May 30, 2023
A lot of that has to do with the La Niña weather pattern that manifested in Seattle as rainier days in 2020-21 and 2021-22, McMillian said.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 17, 2023
And you know when it rains in Chicago it's wetter, and muddier, and rainier than any place in the world.
From One Basket by Edna Ferber
The decades of Genghis’s rise, the author tells us, were Central Asia’s rainiest in 2,000 years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
One of the rainiest springs on record boosted warm soup sales while denting those for sun cream, new figures suggest.
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2024
Though Pu’u Kukui, the highest peak in the West Maui Mountains, remains one of the rainiest locations on the planet, the once-flourishing mid-elevation hillsides are droughted and eroding.
From Salon ● Dec. 7, 2023
The coast and Puget Sound interior received 2.5 to 5.5 inches, according to the weather service, and Seattle and Olympia both broke records for the rainiest Dec. 5.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 6, 2023
Sometimes, on spring days, there will be the brightest, warmest sun and the darkest, rainiest clouds sharing the sky.
From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan
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