precipitation

Some elements of the water cycle change rapidly -- like precipitation, river flow and soil moisture, responding to weather within days or weeks.

From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026

The mountain regions of the county were likely to see more significant rainfall, while downtown Los Angeles was expected to see slightly less precipitation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026

Garreaud said precipitation totals reached levels "rarely seen in the otherwise extremely arid region."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 1, 2026

A few weeks ago, I biked to meet a source for coffee, since my Android phone’s AccuWeather widget had seemingly projected a low, low chance of precipitation in the area.

From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026

Once they hauled the cargo upstairs to their lab, they let it cool for a week before beginning the tedious process of reduction, oxidation, precipitation, and extraction.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

It looked at both extreme events and low-onset climate change, including coastal erosion, marine flooding, sea-level rise and extremes, soil and groundwater salinization, inland flooding resulting from heavy precipitations, and permafrost thaw.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2023

They obtained a ton of pitchblende from the Austrian Government, began a long series of crushings, pulverizations, leachings, precipitations, crystallizations with apparatus at which a modern physicist would sneer.

From Time Magazine Archive

And perhaps in the end the slopes were more laden by the smaller precipitations which deposited a daily accretion.

From Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 by Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury

These snows are, in fact, precipitations of vapor, condensed by the cold, and carried with it successively.

From The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars by L. P. Gratacap

It followed that they were regions of increased heat—regions, in fact, where the temperature was too high to permit the occurrence of the precipitations to which the photosphere is due.

From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke