precipitation
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Most are in northern Ontario and Quebec, where it has been hot and dry, as well as the Northwest Territories, which is experiencing a drought and received less than 40% of normal precipitation in June.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Drought is a lack of precipitation, whereas water scarcity is about a mismatch between water supply and demand - so it is not just about the weather.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
Heat domes are large areas of high pressure, where sinking air suppresses development of precipitation and clouds, allowing heat to build up over days and weeks.
From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026
Similarly, as people have taken steps to reduce acidic emissions coming from smokestacks and other sources, less acid has fallen as precipitation, changing the chemistry of soils.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 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
How destructive the alternating influence of the oxygen and the atmospheric precipitations are for the roofing paper will be shown by the following results of tests.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 821, September 26, 1891 by Various
Accretion by chemical precipitations, by welding, by pressure, by agglutination.
From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
Extra-mundane smoke and smoke from cities merge, or both would manifest in black precipitations in rain.
From The Book of the Damned by Fort, Charles
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