Rainfall
noun
The amount of rain that falls in a certain area in a certain period of time.
Due to the heavy rainfall last night, the roads are all flooded.
Often appears as...
- annual rainfall
- heavy rainfall
noun
The action of rain falling.
The soft rainfall outside created a peaceful environment.
Often appears as...
- soft rainfall
- gentle rainfall
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Literary
noun
The amount of rain that falls in a certain area in a certain period of time.
Due to the heavy rainfall last night, the roads are all flooded.
Often appears as...
- annual rainfall
- heavy rainfall
noun
The action of rain falling.
The soft rainfall outside created a peaceful environment.
Often appears as...
- soft rainfall
- gentle rainfall
Usage tips
Literary
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Measurement Unit
Rainfall is often measured in millimeters or inches to quantify precipitation.
The region received 40mm of rainfall over the weekend.
Pro Tip 2/3Time Period
Specify the time when mentioning rainfall to clarify when the rain occurred.
July's average rainfall is higher than in January.
Pro Tip 3/3Climatic Indicator
Rainfall is used to describe climate patterns and can indicate a wet or dry region.
The savanna is characterized by seasonal rainfall.
Pro Tip 1/3Measurement Unit
Rainfall is often measured in millimeters or inches to quantify precipitation.
The region received 40mm of rainfall over the weekend.
Pro Tip 2/3Time Period
Specify the time when mentioning rainfall to clarify when the rain occurred.
July's average rainfall is higher than in January.
Pro Tip 3/3Climatic Indicator
Rainfall is used to describe climate patterns and can indicate a wet or dry region.
The savanna is characterized by seasonal rainfall.
Pro Tip 1/3Measurement Unit
Rainfall is often measured in millimeters or inches to quantify precipitation.
The region received 40mm of rainfall over the weekend.
Pro Tip 2/3Time Period
Specify the time when mentioning rainfall to clarify when the rain occurred.
July's average rainfall is higher than in January.
Pro Tip 3/3Climatic Indicator
Rainfall is used to describe climate patterns and can indicate a wet or dry region.
The savanna is characterized by seasonal rainfall.
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Gavin Schmidt: The...
intersect with clouds and rainfall patterns? How does pollution, which you can see in the white wisps of sulfate pollution in Europe, how does that affect the temperatures at the surface and the sunlight that you get at the surface? We can look at this across the world.
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revealing a landscape not as lifeless as it might first appear. Deserts are often defined as areas of land that receive less than 10 inches of rainfall each year. These regions are low in humidity and can even be moisture-deficient,
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year of below normal rainfall that was unprecedented it's hard to attribute specific events to climate change but an increase in extreme events life draft is what we are expecting from climate change a lot of the blame made by
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6 space technologies we...
Now, scientists can take this information about the rainfall and the vegetation and use it to understand what areas on Earth are in danger of a famine or a drought and provide that information to aid organizations
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The rise and fall of...
History’s first empire rose out of a hot, dry landscape, without rainfall to nourish crops, without trees or stones for building. In spite of all this, its inhabitants built the world’s first cities,
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Fossil Found in Kitchen...
because they're very sensitive to temperature and climate they don't move very far during their lifetime so they're a very good indicator of relative humidity rainfall things like that
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Anupam Mishra: The...
Such a limited rainfall, and highest colorful life flourished in these areas. You won't find water in this slide. But it is invisible. Somewhere a stream or a rivulet
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How to green the world's...
that desertification is only occurring in arid and semi-arid areas of the world, and that tall grasslands like this one in high rainfall are of no consequence.
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Wild Beavers Return...
not only hold water but also slow it down this simply means that during heavy rainfall water doesn't flow as quickly into rivers which helps prevent them
Video examples
Gavin Schmidt: The...
intersect with clouds and rainfall patterns? How does pollution, which you can see in the white wisps of sulfate pollution in Europe, how does that affect the temperatures at the surface and the sunlight that you get at the surface? We can look at this across the world.
Video examples
Resilient people,...
we're learning that this is affecting regional rainfall this is affecting air pollution it's affecting economies with feedbacks back into the global market it is every finance ministers concern of keeping biomes in a stable state in a globalized world this
Video examples
Deserts 101 PIPE National...
revealing a landscape not as lifeless as it might first appear. Deserts are often defined as areas of land that receive less than 10 inches of rainfall each year. These regions are low in humidity and can even be moisture-deficient,
Video examples
How Cape Town's...
year of below normal rainfall that was unprecedented it's hard to attribute specific events to climate change but an increase in extreme events life draft is what we are expecting from climate change a lot of the blame made by
Video examples
6 space technologies we...
Now, scientists can take this information about the rainfall and the vegetation and use it to understand what areas on Earth are in danger of a famine or a drought and provide that information to aid organizations
Video examples
The rise and fall of...
History’s first empire rose out of a hot, dry landscape, without rainfall to nourish crops, without trees or stones for building. In spite of all this, its inhabitants built the world’s first cities,
Video examples
Fossil Found in Kitchen...
because they're very sensitive to temperature and climate they don't move very far during their lifetime so they're a very good indicator of relative humidity rainfall things like that
Video examples
Anupam Mishra: The...
Such a limited rainfall, and highest colorful life flourished in these areas. You won't find water in this slide. But it is invisible. Somewhere a stream or a rivulet
Video examples
How to green the world's...
that desertification is only occurring in arid and semi-arid areas of the world, and that tall grasslands like this one in high rainfall are of no consequence.
Video examples
Wild Beavers Return...
not only hold water but also slow it down this simply means that during heavy rainfall water doesn't flow as quickly into rivers which helps prevent them
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Quote examples
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Spanish Novelist
I spend a lot of time in L.A., and when it rains there you get the entire rainfall for the year in two days, raindrops the size of mangoes. And in Barcelona, the Mediterranean storms come up from the sea, thunder and lightning; it's like the end of the world.
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Jeff Goodell
American Author
Once we start deliberately messing with the climate systems, we could inadvertently shift rainfall patterns (climate models have shown that rainfall in the Amazon might be particularly vulnerable), causing collapse of ecosystems, drought, famine, and more.
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George Monbiot
British Writer
Only one of the many life support systems on which we depend - soils, aquifers, rainfall, ice, the pattern of winds and currents, pollinators, biological abundance and diversity - need fail for everything to slide.
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Robert Zubrin
American Scientist
As a result of the carbon-dioxide enrichment of the Earth's atmosphere, plants are now growing faster. Furthermore, global warming lengthens the growing season and increases net rainfall.
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Paolo Bacigalupi
American Writer
Economies are embedded inside ecosystems. Companies dependent on tourism, for example, are affected by low rainfall - there's less snow for skiers, and forest fires are more intense.
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Tatiana Schlossberg
Farmers and agricultural authorities must take account of climate change and the prospect of increased rainfall in designing strategies to mitigate the effects of nutrient pollution.
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Pranav Mistry
Indian Scientist
As seventh graders, my classmates and I would make rockets to see what made them fly and models of remote-controlled motor boats because Palanpur had heavy rainfall.
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Joan Didion
American Author
The West begins where the average annual rainfall drops below twenty inches. Water is important to people who do not have it, and the same is true of control.
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James Lovelock
English Scientist
The tropical rain forests are a telling example. Once cut down, they rarely recover. Rainfall drops, deserts spread, the climate warms.
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M. S. Swaminathan
Indian Scientist
The Climate Risk Managers can be trained in the science and art of managing uncertain rainfall patterns leading to drought or flood.
Quote examples
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Spanish Novelist
I spend a lot of time in L.A., and when it rains there you get the entire rainfall for the year in two days, raindrops the size of mangoes. And in Barcelona, the Mediterranean storms come up from the sea, thunder and lightning; it's like the end of the world.
Quote examples
Jeff Goodell
American Author
Once we start deliberately messing with the climate systems, we could inadvertently shift rainfall patterns (climate models have shown that rainfall in the Amazon might be particularly vulnerable), causing collapse of ecosystems, drought, famine, and more.
Quote examples
George Monbiot
British Writer
Only one of the many life support systems on which we depend - soils, aquifers, rainfall, ice, the pattern of winds and currents, pollinators, biological abundance and diversity - need fail for everything to slide.
Quote examples
Robert Zubrin
American Scientist
As a result of the carbon-dioxide enrichment of the Earth's atmosphere, plants are now growing faster. Furthermore, global warming lengthens the growing season and increases net rainfall.
Quote examples
Paolo Bacigalupi
American Writer
Economies are embedded inside ecosystems. Companies dependent on tourism, for example, are affected by low rainfall - there's less snow for skiers, and forest fires are more intense.
Quote examples
Tatiana Schlossberg
Farmers and agricultural authorities must take account of climate change and the prospect of increased rainfall in designing strategies to mitigate the effects of nutrient pollution.
Quote examples
Pranav Mistry
Indian Scientist
As seventh graders, my classmates and I would make rockets to see what made them fly and models of remote-controlled motor boats because Palanpur had heavy rainfall.
Quote examples
Joan Didion
American Author
The West begins where the average annual rainfall drops below twenty inches. Water is important to people who do not have it, and the same is true of control.
Quote examples
James Lovelock
English Scientist
The tropical rain forests are a telling example. Once cut down, they rarely recover. Rainfall drops, deserts spread, the climate warms.
Quote examples
M. S. Swaminathan
Indian Scientist
The Climate Risk Managers can be trained in the science and art of managing uncertain rainfall patterns leading to drought or flood.
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