precipitation

Besides attracting super-high tides, the El Niño climate pattern makes above-average precipitation over Southern California more likely.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 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

This is about three times the average rainfall in August, and the highest volume of precipitation ever recorded in the country.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

Heavy precipitation is also expected to fall in Shanghai and parts of Fujian, Anhui and Jiangsu provinces through Monday afternoon, it said.

From Barron's ● Aug. 9, 2026

The annual precipitation in this land where the rains seldom fall is not enough to support good sod-forming grass; it favors rather the perennial bunch- grass that grows in the shelter of the sage.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

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

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

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

Evaporation of the solvent is avoided, and in consequence a freedom from vexatious precipitations is secured, and more uniform and reliable results are obtained.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 417, December 29, 1883 by Various