Al Jazeera English
| Apr 4, 2013
A record-breaking April rainfall has turned the streets of Buenos Aires into canals and killed at least 48 people in the surrounding province. The flash floods forced thousands of people from their homes in the city of La Plata.
Telegraph.co.uk
| Nov 11, 2012
Venice is celebrated for the water that flows through its streets, but flooded streets and plazas may have been a bit more than tourists were expecting. Some 70 percent of the city was soaked by flood waters after a weekend of continuous rain batt...
Press TV
| Sep 13, 2012
Pakistan has been hit with a second season of devastating floods, as fast flowing water swept away hundreds of villages, bringing misery to locals in already poor living environments. However, the flooding itself may only be the start of their pro...
ABC News (Australia)
| Aug 29, 2012
Heavy rains in Myanmar (Burma) have forced tens of thousands of people to flee their low-lying homes. The worst-affected areas are in the Ayeyarwady region near the capital Yangon, where homes, businesses, and farmland have been submerged. However...
Telegraph.co.uk
| Aug 7, 2012
Relentless rain submerged half of the sprawling Philippine capital Manila, sending emergency crews scrambling to rescue tens of thousands of stranded residents.
LinkAsia
| Aug 3, 2012
More bad weather is heading toward China, even as the country scrambles to recover from weeks of heavy storms that caused fatal floods. State broadcaster CCTV reports on "Typhoon Damrey", and the efforts being made to limit the damage caused.
Russia Today
| Jul 25, 2012
Beicheying Village in Beijing's Fangshan District recorded 46 centimetres (18 inches) of rain on Saturday as the capital experienced its heaviest downpour in six decades. At least 37 people died in Beijing and it's not yet clear how many of the de...
Al Jazeera English
| Jul 12, 2012
Heavy rain and floods have killed at least 20 people in southwestern Japan as tens of thousands are ordered to evacuate their homes on the island of Kyushu. Al Jazeera's Bhanu Bhatnagar reports.
NTDTV
| Jul 2, 2012
Many people are salvaging what they can in Bangladesh. Hundreds of homes have been washed away some of the heaviest rain in years has displaced thousands of families and left nearly 100 dead in northern Bangladesh. Villa...
KTN Kenya
| Jun 26, 2012
A deadly landslide in the Bududa district of Uganda buried three villages on Monday evening. Eighteen bodies have been recovered, but scores more are missing and hundreds have been left homeless after heavy rains caused the destruction of three vi...
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Rain is liquid water in the form of droplets that have condensed from atmospheric water vapor and then precipitated—that is, become heavy enough to fall under gravity. Rain is a major component of the water cycle and is responsible for depositing most of the fresh water on the Earth. It provides suitable conditions for many types of ecosystem, as well as water for hydroelectric power plants and crop irrigation.
The major cause of rain production is moisture moving along three-dimensional zones of temperature and moisture contrasts known as weather fronts. If enough moisture and upward motion is present, precipitation falls from convective clouds such as cumulonimbus which can organize into narrow rainbands. In mountainous areas, heavy precipitation is possible where upslope flow is maximized within windward sides of the terrain at elevation which forces moist air to condense and fall out as rainfall along the sides of mountains. On the leeward side of mountains, desert climates can exist due to the dry air caused by downslope flow which causes heating and drying of the air mass. The movement of the monsoon trough, or intertropical convergence zone, brings rainy seasons to savannah climes.
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