Hussain said that the Met Office had forecast cloudbursts and extreme monsoon called for extreme measures. |
Rains came in cloudbursts in ecologically fragile mountainous areas and led to natural dam bursts and floods downstream. |
Soon it began to rain, and what began with the patter of hail became a succession of cloudbursts, which eventually evened out into an unremitting downpour. |
Dummies festooned with sensors march robotically for hours in EMPA's research laboratory, putting up with heat, sweating or experiencing simulated cloudbursts and conflagrations. |
For the skipper of Groupama, the passage of the front was violent: strong winds and cloudbursts. |
Badlands develop in arid to semiarid areas where the bedrock is poorly cemented and rainfall generally occurs as cloudbursts. |