Converse of object

• absorb: Moorland should act as a sponge which absorbs heavy rainfall, and then releases water slowly into streams and rivers.

Adjective modifier

• heavy: A heavy rainfall late in the day makes the coastal road the only viable route of advance.

• torrential: Even torrential rainfall on the Thursday morning didn't affect the numbers!

• below-average: October has also seen below-average rainfall in most parts.

• erratic: The maize harvest fell by 32 per cent due to erratic rainfall during the agricultural season.

• average: March Headline: A dry month with less than 65 % of the average rainfall falling within the first week.

• annual: Umbrella sellers don't care what the annual rainfall is, they care how many rainy days there will be.

Modifies a noun

• runoff: Work Completed Black box regression modeling was carried out on a 15 - year sample of annual rainfall runoff data.

• accumulation: Notable rainfall accumulations were commonplace and numerous local rainfall records have been established.

• deficiency: The large regional rainfall deficiencies built up through the 2003 drought have very largely been eliminated.

• simulator: Topics covered in this Bulletin include experimental design, reconnaisance methods, field plots, rainfall simulators, and estimating from models.

• intensity: Note the previous standard gave rainfall intensity figures in mm per hour per square meter for 2 minute storm event.

• radar: The ' echoes ' received by the radar are shown on the ' rainfall radar ' chart.

Noun used with modifier

• monsoon: The present skill of the model does not allow a quantitative forecast of the monsoon rainfall over India.

• millimeter: The wettest day in March was 7 th with a rather modest 6.5 millimeters rainfall.

• winter: Many underground water sources rely solely on winter rainfall to fill them up.

• catchment: Many new local and catchment rainfall records were established, particularly for high intensity events.

• mm: Snow was heavy for a time from about 04 GMT and, when melted, was equivalent to 6 mm rainfall.

Preposition: in

• catchment: Storms on the 22nd were responsible for more than half the total June rainfall in some southern catchments.

Preposition: of

• mm: In contrast, drinking water is scarce during summer months in some parts of the northeast with an annual rainfall of 15,000 mm.