Up to 3 inches of rain per hour are possible, with heavier storms on Sunday.
Then, with Brett Gardner set to lead off the fifth inning, the game went into a two-hour rain delay as the teams waited for the thunderstorms to clear.
The pumps can handle 1 inch of rain in the first hour, she said, and a half-inch every hour thereafter.
Sri Lanka chose to bat first after winning the toss, but were frustrated by a rain delay of one hour after just seven balls.
Following a one-hour morning rain delay, the visitors had been reduced to 80-5 in their second innings, still needing a further 145 runs to make England's openers strap on their pads one more time.
The Peugeot No.9 was leading when the rain started in the 14th hour, offering an opportunity for the Audi cars to make up for their relative lack of speed in dry conditions.
Nick Dougherty, Alastair Forsyth and Thomas Levet all battled well to finish on 10 under on a day when strong winds and driving rain forced a five-hour delay in play at the County Louth course.
In suburban Chicago, which got up to 7 inches of rain in a 24-hour period ending Thursday, record levels of water were moving through the Des Plaines River past heavily populated western suburbs and into the Illinois River to the south.
Rain came down heavily a half hour at a time, then pulled back into a silvery sky of fast-moving, fuzzy-bottomed clouds.
With 31 overs lost on day one because of rain, play began half an hour early on Tuesday and England's bowlers were quick to get among the Australian middle and lower order.
The vast majority of an announced crowd of 33, 764 sat through a 2 hour, 26-minute rain delay Sunday.
Meanwhile, flooding is affecting parts of southern Cornwall and Devon, with some areas predicted to see 50-75mm of rain falling in a 24 to 48-hour period.
We just got to witness history, folks: Alfredo Rodriguez waited an hour in the miserable New York rain for the privilege of snapping up his Sprint store's very first retail Pre at this evening's invite-only Premier customers event.
And Carnegie Mellon's Red Whittaker is already imaging what the next big DARPA-sponsored event could involve--perhaps a 24-hour race of robotic cars through snow and rain, or maybe team racing with coordinated convoys of driverless cars.
With rain pouring down, the Yankees and Cleveland Indians waited an hour Wednesday night to see if they could find a window to play a game.
Torrential rain forced the referee to take the players from the field just after the hour mark.
Louis were delayed an hour before the first pitch and another 4 hours, 32 minutes by rain before the Royals beat Cardinals 4-2 well after 3 in the morning.
The pilot of an airliner that crashed and burst into flames after overshooting a short, rain-soaked runway apparently tried to take off again, barely clearing rush-hour traffic on a major highway.
Though the rain stopped and the grounds crew had been working on the field, Rangers officials announced the postponement just about an hour after the scheduled start.
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