A heavy rain ruined the dinner.

A study found that a strong nifio in 1997-98 helped America's economy grow by 15 billion, partly because of better agricultural harvest, farmers in the midwest gained from extra rain.

After spotting a wallet on the front seat inside a parked car with its window down, he stood guard in the rain for about two hours waiting for the owner to return.

Better sewers make it less likely that heavy rain is followed by an outbreak of the disease of bad stomach.

Here, the air was clean and fresh, even with the rain.

However, by midday, it will become cloudy in most areas, with rain spreading generally from the west.

In the afternoon, there will be rain in most places, with winds becoming stronger along the coast.

In wind and rain she started on her difficult way.

It was raining lightly when I arrived in Yangshuo just before dawn.

One day, the cow was eating grass when it began to rain heavily.

The rain will be quite heavy.

The weather forecast says it will be cloudy with a slight chance of rain later tonight.

Though heavy rains brought about by el nino may relieve the drought in California, they are likely to cause surface flooding and other disasters.

We now realize how important family is and how important to be near them, especially when you're raining children.

With no rains for over a year, the city is suffering from unusually hot weather.

Disputes over money may rain a relationship.

Since it's raining so hard, let's go and see the new exhibits.

And the rain is spread out over more days than those cities.

I'm currently sitting alone at the table outside the Black Cat Cafe, listening to the rain and watching people passing by.

They can lead to extreme rain in parts of North and South America, even as southern Africa experiences dry weather.

Today I found out that Seattle doesn't really get that much rain compared with most US cities.

When it does rain, it tends to be a very light rain that isn't troublesome.

Usually when we walk through the rain forest we hear a soft sound from all the moist leaves and organic debris on the forest floor,\ says ecologist Daniel Nepstad.

Predictions of the collapse of the tropical rain forests have been around for years

Left alone, it was assumed, the world's rain forests would not only flourish but might even rescue us from disaster by absorbing the excess carbon dioxide and other planet-warming greenhouse gases.

Some scientists believe that the rise in carbon levels means that the Amazon and other rain forests in Asia and Africa may go from being assets in the battle against rising temperatures to liabilities

If the collapse of the rain forests speeds up dramatically,it could eventually release 3.5-5 billion metric tons of carbon into the atmosphere each year - making forests the leading source of greenhouse gases.

Some experts say that the rain forest is already at the

Extreme weather and reckless development arc plotting against the rain forest in ways that scientists have never seen.

The picture worsens with each round of El Nino, the unusually warm currents in the Pacific Ocean that drive up temperatures and invariably presage (预示) droughts and fires in the rain forest

More than paradise lost, a perishing rain forest could trigger a domino effect - sending winds and rains kilometers off course and loading the skies with even greater levels of greenhouse gases - that will be felt far beyond the Amazon basin.

organic debris echoes the sounds in a rain forest

In the second paragraph, the author challenges the view that the collapse of rain forests is caused by direct human interference.

the collapse of rain forests is caused by direct human interference

the condition of rain forests has been rapidly deteriorating

rain forests should not be converted into pastures or farms

The author argues that the rising carbon levels in rain forests may turn them into a major source of g

But towards late afternoon, rain will spread from Scotland to cover most parts by midnight.

Ever since humanity began to farm our own food, we've faced the unpredictable rain that is both friend and enemy.

Food security and fortunes depend on sufficient rain, and nowhere more so than in Africa, where 96% of farmland depends on rain instead of the irrigation common in more developed places.

The chemical composition of rainfall changes slightly as rain clouds move.

They were able to accurately place the hair samples in broad regions roughly corresponding to the movement of rain systems.