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precipitation

noun as in moisture in air or falling from sky

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Although most of the precipitation associated with last night’s storm exited this morning, clouds stuck around.

However, there are questions about how widespread any icy precipitation may become, with some model projections keeping more of it to the south.

Enough mild air has worked in aloft to turn precipitation to rain inside the Beltway and points south, though a transition to snow is possible overnight in this area as well.

The precipitation continues overnight as lows drop to the mid-20s to low 30s in the city.

That push of colder air would allow the next round of light precipitation to fall as snow Thursday night into Friday morning.

The soulful girl group made precipitation sexy with their 1982 gospel-esque forecast.

Like much of Asia, Thailand is accustomed to serious precipitation during the rainy season.

When rapidly deposited, as by artificial precipitation, triple phosphate often takes feathery, star- or leaf-like forms.

Under these conditions the temperature of the air rarely descends low enough to favour the precipitation of dew.

Addition of alcohol caused complete precipitation of potassium sulphate.

The ordinary tests fail to show its presence until the mercury has been removed from the solution by precipitation as a sulphide.

We may ask what excess will be required to prevent the precipitation of silver chloride in the experiment just tried.

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On this page you'll find 38 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to precipitation, such as: drizzle, rain, rainfall, rainstorm, sleet, and snow.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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