Some of the farmers were victims of a terrible shortage of rain, and of their own poor farming methods.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

Radioactive particles travel in the wind and get absorbed into soil with the help of rain and snow.

VOA: special.2011.03.29

About fifteen centimeters of wet snow has as much water as two and one-half centimeters of rain.

VOA: special.2010.01.05

About seventy-six centimeters of dry snow equals the water in two and one-half centimeters of rain.

VOA: special.2011.01.11

The area is really a desert, receiving only about thirty-five centimeters of rain a year.

VOA: special.2009.04.15

Many centuries of rain caused huge rivers to move violently through this area.

VOA: special.2009.01.07

More than thirty centimeters of rain fell on May first and second.

VOA: special.2010.05.17

The race was stopped early because of rain.

VOA: special.2009.04.10

When Typhoon Ketsana hit Manila this year, the crowded city's planners were stunned at the amount of rain that poured down in a short time.

VOA: standard.2009.12.21

We've been throughevery kind of rain there is...

VOA: standard.other

More than 150,000 people have left their homes in Burkina Faso, many in the capital Ouagadougou, where the United Nations says the amount of rain that fell in one day last week equals one-quarter of the nation's average annual rainfall.

VOA: standard.2009.09.06

"I'm Mother Moonshower on the night of the last full moon I gave my rain babies into your care.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

"The quality of mercy is not strain'd It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath;

VOA: special.2011.06.06

Then the woman wrapped the rain babies in pieces of cloth and laid them to sleep in a drawer.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

As he handed the basket to his wife, a sudden rush of cool rain put out the fire.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

A crash of thunder sounded as a bolt of lighting struck the ground close to the basket where the rain babies slept.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

"It contributes to smog,acid rain, loss of biodiversity, dead zones along the coast, global warming, stratospheric ozone depletion.

VOA: special.2011.04.05

Signs of climate change include an increase in rain when there used to be only snow, new plant life,and melting ice sheets.

VOA: special.2009.06.03

"He is just as nice and pleasant as ever, but he still does not know enough to come in, out of the rain.

VOA: special.2009.01.03