"We needed rain yesterday,right,". "We needed rain most probably a fortnight ago for our crops to realize their full potential but most probably been 30 percent of our yield potential gone and every day it doesn't rain that will fall quite dramatically from there."

VOA: standard.2009.09.03

If you look at it long enough, it is a word that opens and spreads out, makes a circle of a far horizon, a word on which rain can fall and dimple or sweep across in lashing gusts and leave unperturbed, a word that is calm enough to look at, almost lulling, but also hints at holding unreckonable power."

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

Forecasters say up to 50mm (2in) of rain could fall in parts of the country on Saturday, and the Met Office has issued an early severe weather warning.

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Parts of the Calder Valley, including Hebden Bridge, saw a month's worth of rain fall in three hours.

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In southern California for example, over the last 150 years the most common amount of rain fall is 13 inches but the second most common is 26 inches.

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