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Blood rain; Cold drop (Spanish: gota fría; archaic as a meteorological term), colloquially, any high impact rainfall event along the Mediterranean coast of Spain; Drought, a prolonged water supply shortage, often caused by persistent lack of, or much reduced, rainfall; Floods. Flash flood; Rainstorm; Red rain in Kerala (for related phenomena ...
Mountain terrain, monstrous rain: What caused North Carolina's catastrophic flooding Doyle Rice and Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY Updated October 1, 2024 at 11:12 AM
The rain, while not directly associated with the hurricane, can be heavy enough to trigger incidents of flash flooding in the short term. In late September, heavy rain fell on the southern ...
The winds of change were well underway across the Great Plains on Monday as a potent storm triggered locally severe thunderstorms in some areas and drenching rain or accumulating snow and cold ...
A major rain event from September 16 through 22, which brought over ten inches of rain to the Atlanta, Birmingham, Chattanooga, Athens areas as well as other parts of the states of Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee and North Carolina. As of September 22, 2009, in Atlanta, 9 people had been killed due to the floods. [10]
Heavy rain triggered a landslide almost two stories tall which slid about 700 metres (2,300 ft) down a steep mountainside and buried an area of approximately 9.8 hectares (24 acres) – including 62 houses, the barangay hall of Masara, a transport terminal, three busses, and a jeepney – and blocking a tributary of the Hijo River, raising the ...
People gather at the site of a partial bridge collapse after the Cangrejal River overflowed its banks due to heavy rain brought by Tropical Storm Sara in La Ceiba, Honduras, on Nov. 15, 2024.
The heaviest rainfall to occur in 24 hours was measured in Yankeetown during Hurricane Easy in 1950, which caused 38.70 inches (983 mm) of precipitation. This is also the highest known point storm total maximum related to any tropical cyclone which has impacted Florida, [ 1 ] and by itself would be the highest known rainfall total for any month ...