Below you will find example sentences with "heavy rainfall". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Heavy Rainfall in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: heavy
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 22
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 30.4 words

Words in this phrase

heavy rainfall

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • heavy can mean: Having great weight. Common word
  • rainfall can mean: The amount of rain that falls on a single occasion Frequent word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 4 start, 9 middle, 7 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

accompanied by heavy rainfall hail and 1× and isolated heavy rainfall very likely 1× and very heavy rainfall over jharkhand 1× due to heavy rainfall and a 1× february causing heavy rainfall the southwest 1× heavy rainfall is expected 1× hours of heavy rainfall with rainfall 1× impact of heavy rainfall 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

after monsoon arrived 1× as for tomorrow 1× authorities have also 1× heavy rainfall is 1× meanwhile the imd 1× meteo france has 1×

Common sentence endings:

a report said 1× and jagatsinghpur thursday 1× and nicobar islands 1× and strong winds 1× around port elizabeth 1× at isolated places 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

pradesh 5× isolated 5× east 5× expected 5× likely 4× monsoon 4× august 4× areas 4× issued 4× warning 4× days 3× weather 3×

Related phrases

heavy rain heavy rains heavy water heavy metal heavy showers heavy snow heavy losses average rainfall rainfall amounts rainfall totals

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around heavy:

heavy rain 20× heavy rains 19× heavy water 18× heavy metal 14×

Just before it in the phrase index:

heavy rain heavy metal heavy losses heavy load heavy drinking heavily influenced

Just after it in the phrase index:

heavy rains heavy showers heavy snow heavy water heavyweight champion hebrew bible

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

heavy rain heavy rains heavy water heavy metal heavy showers heavy snow

Same ending:

average rainfall annual rainfall inch rainfall

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "heavy rainfall" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 30.4 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as accompanied by heavy rainfall hail and, and isolated heavy rainfall very likely, pradesh, isolated and east stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with heavy rain, heavy rains, heavy water, heavy rain, heavy rains and heavy water, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with heavy rainfall

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

The MeT department has issued a warning for “heavy to very heavy with isolated extremely heavy rainfall”. (17 words)

The northeast monsoon occurs between November and February, causing heavy rainfall; the southwest monsoon sees less rainfall. (17 words)

Several more hours of heavy rainfall with rainfall rates of 1 to 2 inches per hour can be expected. (19 words)

Longer example sentences

After monsoon arrived in Assam on June 10, the weather department recorded an average rainfall of 41 mm in 24 hours on June 17. The IMD predicted moderate rainfall over five days after that, with heavy to very heavy rainfall likely at isolated places. (44 words)

The low pressure is also likely to cause heavy showers in Odisha from August 24 to 26, and very heavy rainfall over Jharkhand on August 26. Heavy rains had led to waterlogging in low lying areas in Odisha, Uttarakhand and Gujarat on Friday. (43 words)

The cumulative rainfall till August 14 was 0.1 per cent above long-term average with the weekly rainfall 45.1 per cent above long-term average owing to heavy rainfall across western and central India, a report said. (39 words)

Example sentences (20)

Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh will continue to have fairly to widespread rainfall with isolated heavy to very heavy rainfall and thunderstorm and isolated heavy rainfall very likely over Uttar Pradesh, East Rajasthan in the next three days.

After monsoon arrived in Assam on June 10, the weather department recorded an average rainfall of 41 mm in 24 hours on June 17. The IMD predicted moderate rainfall over five days after that, with heavy to very heavy rainfall likely at isolated places.

The cumulative rainfall till August 14 was 0.1 per cent above long-term average with the weekly rainfall 45.1 per cent above long-term average owing to heavy rainfall across western and central India, a report said.

According to the RMC, Chennai and areas surrounding the city will receive light to heavy rainfall in intervals while districts in the Kaveri Delta will receive heavy rainfall in certain areas.

The local MeT office has issued an orange warning of heavy to very heavy rainfall on Sunday and a yellow warning of heavy rains on Monday.

The IMD has warned of heavy to very heavy rainfall at a few places, with isolated extremely heavy showers in parts of south Gujarat till the morning of August 27.

The low pressure is also likely to cause heavy showers in Odisha from August 24 to 26, and very heavy rainfall over Jharkhand on August 26. Heavy rains had led to waterlogging in low lying areas in Odisha, Uttarakhand and Gujarat on Friday.

As for tomorrow (Saturday), heavy to very heavy rainfall is likely over West Madhya Pradesh and heavy over East Uttar Pradesh, East Rajasthan, East Madhya Pradesh and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

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The MeT department has issued a warning for “heavy to very heavy with isolated extremely heavy rainfall”.

While Nigeria Meteorological Agency (NiMET)`s Annual Seasonal Rainfall Prediction, (SRP) predicted that the onset of the growing season is expected to be near-normal, heavy rainfall may result in flooding.

Heavy rainfall is expected to slow after 12 p.m. and continue to fall east of Interstate 35, followed by some expected light rainfall for the San Marcos area.

Several more hours of heavy rainfall with rainfall rates of 1 to 2 inches per hour can be expected.

Total rainfall of 12-50 mm (0.50-2 inches) will be common in these areas through to Saturday while several rounds of moderate to heavy rainfall are expected around Port Elizabeth.

With Mumbai witnessing heavy rainfall for the fourth consecutive day on Tuesday, the suburbs have already crossed the mean total rainfall for the month of July in the first 10 days of the month.

The northeast monsoon occurs between November and February, causing heavy rainfall; the southwest monsoon sees less rainfall.

There is a monsoon season with frequent flooding due to heavy rainfall, and a dry season with significantly less rainfall or none at all.

Authorities have also placed the northern region on high alert for heavy rains since late Monday and agencies have taken measures to counter the impact of heavy rainfall.

Meanwhile, the IMD issued a ‘red warning’ (take action) for heavy to very heavy rainfall in seven districts – Mayurbhanj, Cuttack, Jajpur, Balasore, Bhadrak, Kendrapara and Jagatsinghpur –Thursday.

Meteo France has placed the Var and the Alpes-Maritimes regions on an orange weather alert due to heavy thunderstorms accompanied by heavy rainfall hail and strong winds.

The weather office has issued a ‘red alert’ (take action) of heavy to very heavy rainfall (7-20 cm) till 8.30 am of Tuesday for 10 districts – Ganajam, Kadhamal, Nayagarh, Khurda, Bolangir, Boudh, Malkangiri, Koraput, Nawarangpur and Puri.

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