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  2. Precipitation types - Wikipedia

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    Moderate rain describes rainfall with a precipitation rate of between 2.6 millimetres (0.10 in) and 7.6 millimetres (0.30 in) per hour. Heavy rain describes rainfall with a precipitation rate above 7.6 millimetres (0.30 in) per hour, and violent rain has a rate more than 50 millimetres (2.0 in) per hour. [11]

  3. Sunshower - Wikipedia

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    A sunshower is usually a result of winds associated with a rain storm sometimes miles away, blowing the airborne raindrops into an area where there are no clouds. Sometimes a sunshower is created when a single rain shower cloud passes overhead, and the Sun's angle keeps the sunlight from being obstructed by overhead clouds.

  4. Dry thunderstorm - Wikipedia

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    A dry thunderstorm is a thunderstorm that produces thunder and lightning, but where all or most of its precipitation evaporates before reaching the ground. [1] Dry lightning refers to lightning strikes occurring in this situation. Both are so common in the American West that they are sometimes used interchangeably. [2]

  5. Swaths of New York City paralyzed by flooding, record ... - AOL

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    NEW YORK — A record-breaking downpour dumped over half a foot of paralyzing rain across New York City on Friday, snarling travel by land, across the city subways and at major airports. Both Gov ...

  6. List of severe weather phenomena - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  7. Washout (erosion) - Wikipedia

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    A washout is the sudden erosion of soft soil or other support surfaces by a gush of water, usually occurring during a heavy downpour of rain (a flash flood) or other stream flooding. These downpours may occur locally in a thunderstorm or over a large area, such as following the landfall of a tropical cyclone.

  8. The Long Rain - Wikipedia

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    Rob Fletcher uses the opening paragraph, in which Bradbury describes the rain of Venus with phrases like: "It was a hard rain, a perpetual rain, a sweating and steaming rain; it was a mizzle, a downpour, a fountain, a whipping in the eyes, an undertow at the ankles; it was a rain to drown all rains and the memory of rains" to illustrate the ...

  9. Downpour - Wikipedia

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    Downpour may refer to: Heavy rain; Downpour (film), 1971 film by Bahram Beyzai; Downpour, a 1999 music album by Mannafest "Downpour", a song from Unbreakable (Backstreet Boys album) "Downpour (I.O.I song)", a song from Korean Girl Group I.O.I; A fictional superhero in the animated series Justice League Unlimited based on the character Zan