Far out over the water, perhaps twenty miles away, dark clouds dumped rain on the lake.

Andrew was being called a "dry" hurricane, meaning that it hadn't dumped too much rain.

Boris dumped heavy rains on sections of the Mexican coast.

The hurricane also dumped heavy rains along its path.

If a hurricane stalls and moves slow along its track the greater amount of time the storm has to dump rain in an area.

A series of storms continually moving over the same area, dumping heavy rains can cause flash flooding.

The dark sky crackled with lightning and dumped so much rain that we pulled over for lack of visibility.

However, before the move could be completed, on 12 October a second hurricane slammed into the base, again dumping torrential rains.

By Sunday night, the storm was still dumping rain on the arid peninsula and threatening flash floods.

The tropical storm dumped rain along a discontinuous zone of coastal and inland Mexico.