11.   Tropical downpours will be prevalent across Mississippi and Alabama, where local rainfall amounts will exceed four inches.

12.   Tuesday, strong, gusty winds and torrential tropical downpours will accompany Erin as it nears south Florida and the Florida Keys.

13.   A daylong tropical downpour forced all eight matches Wednesday in the ICC Trophy cricket tournament to be abandoned, including four reverse quarterfinal games.

14.   A heavy tropical downpour with thunder and strong lightning failed to cool tempers as scores of reinforcements arrived.

15.   A tropical downpour cast a cloud on the proceedings but failed to dampen the spirits of a reverent crowd.

16.   A tropical downpour pelted the sidewalk outside.

17.   A tropical downpour shortly after the start played havoc with the field last year, causing accidents and spinouts.

18.   Crowds standing in a tropical downpour waved yellow-and-white Vatican flags and pounded sticks as the papal motorcade passed.

19.   Flimsy huts shielded with plastic sheets from tropical downpours, no milk for infants, measly meals served on battered aluminum plates.

20.   He had to overcome a spinout, a tropical downpour, two delayed starts and a bumbling pit stop to do it.