rainy
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“It’s not so much on the first third of the rainy season, but it has more to do with the peak, more consistent, reliable rainy season months.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
Landslides are a recurring hazard in Ethiopia during the country's main rainy season, which typically runs from June to August.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
You “absolutely need a mudroom,” in the Northeast, since people walk in with snow and rain on their boots and need a place to drop off “sporty, sweaty, muddy, rainy, snowy” stuff.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026
Persistent inflation also means Americans are socking away less for retirement or a rainy day.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
The rainy season was taking hold and he now wore a heavy cotton smock each day instead of his light cloth draped toga-style over one shoulder.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
"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
Studies show that worldwide tropical cyclones are getting rainier.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 21, 2023
It’s possible that the Midwest and Great Lakes also have a rainier summer than usual.
From New York Times ● May 30, 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
Local officials say this has been the rainiest February in the history of Juiz de Fora, with the current rainfall in the region already more than double the amount expected for the month.
From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2026
Ana Leon, 37, and her mother, Socorro Diaz, 63, had just wandered inside the Torrance mall and headed to a coffee shop — not the most ideal trip on the rainiest of days.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 24, 2025
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 year that Goodyear moved to Los Angeles, in the winter of 2004-05, was among the region’s rainiest, and her memories of that time are of slick roads and fallen palm fronds.
From New York Times ● May 24, 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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