(1) I must have a pluvial character because this sort of weather is my favourite.(2) Early theories generated late in the nineteenth century correlated cold periods with times of pluvial conditions in arid regions.(3) Evidence of pluvial lakes have been used in the reconstruction of palaeoclimates, using shoreline evidence and analysis of lake sediments to link lake levels to climate.(4) That is, if the pluvial conditions are such that a rainbow is produced, then that rainbow will look very different from the norm.(5) Left by a passing glacier, the boulders acted as umbrellas to the softer rock beneath, protecting it from pluvial erosion.