I woke up and looked out at sheets of rain, a chilly autumnal gray rain.

A species forming no soil seed bank at all (except the dry season between ripening and the first autumnal rains) is Agrostemma githago (Corncockle), which is a formerly widespread cereal weed.

The candles guttered, a small autumnal rain fell.

Oswiu seems to have taken them by surprise and brought them to bay on the banks of the River Winwaed, now swollen by autumnal rains, and probably to be identified with the River Went, a tributary of the Don.

The river swollen by autumnal rains, deluged the low lands, and Adrian in his favourite boat is employed in the dangerous pastime of plucking the topmost bough from a submerged oak.

Because of this, the erosive effects of heavy autumnal rain are much smaller than in other vineyards in the Languedoc.

In its middle and lower reaches the Durance is affected by the Mediterranean climate: flooding after autumnal rains, with low water levels in summer.

The smell of fallen leaves and kuello-fir needles, turned to mulch by the autumnal rains, perfumed the air.

I felt an urgent desire to leave, to continue my journey even in the face of the bleak autumnal rain and wind-blown darkness.

And now the autumnal rains were beginning.