1.   Investors in Bombay were singing in the rain during the first downpour of the season last year.

2.   The first downpour of the rainy season Friday afternoon heightened the urgency of finding shelter for huge numbers of people.

3.   As the expedition members crossed into Zimbabwe after a Malaysia-Botswana flag exchange ceremony at the border post, the convoy experienced the first downpour in six days.

4.   The first major downpour of the winter season Tuesday turned many Beirut streets into rivers and trapped motorists in their vehicles for several hours.

5.   In an unusual turn of the weather Port Moresby had its first downpour of rain for almost a year on Sunday night.

6.   Divided by a motorway running alongside a stream which overflowed in the first downpours, Ikitelli is home to several media bureaux.