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Since Monday, a series of storms has drenched much of California and dumped feet of snow in the Sierra.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2026

The soggy weather that has drenched Southern California since the weekend has mostly moved out of the area, giving residents a brief respite from the rain before another storm moves in later in the week.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2025

But the painter has drenched the rest of the space — walls, floor and furniture — in Venetian red.

From Washington Post • Jun. 22, 2022

The El Nino weather phenomenon has drenched South Florida during what’s normally the dry season.

From Washington Times • Feb. 11, 2016

The rain has drenched and washed us," Villon says two hundred years later, "and the sun dried and blackened us.

From Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature by McLaughlin, Edward Tompkins