Word: rainiest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fortnight after St. Swithin's Day, rain fell eleven days. New Jersey was soggy after the worst floods in four decades. At Little Falls, the Passaic River washed out a railroad bridge, leaving only the tracks swaying above the swollen current (see cut). New Orleans sloshed through its rainiest July ever (14 inches plus). When a man in Minneapolis ran out of ice cubes, his mother-in-law dashed into the backyard, picked up a handful of hailstones. It was no legend, but a fact, that the U.S. had had unusual weather since the hottest March on record...
...show signs of weakening. Flak remains heavy, but not uniformly so; fighter opposition on most recent assaults has been light. But in the drive to knock out Japan's industry, the B-29s will now face a new enemy: weather. Between June and September, eastern Japan's rainiest season, the air will be warm, moist and thick with clouds. Inevitably, more bombing will have to be done by instruments and will be correspondingly less accurate, but there will be no lightening of the bomb loads...