precipitation
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They are then heard saying the plane was "picking up precipitation" and "we need to climb".
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
The pilot said the crew was managing the ice on the business jet and noted they were picking up precipitation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
The person said the plane was "picking up precipitation" and needed "to climb" shortly before saying: "Mayday, mayday, we're descending 10,000 feet per minute."
From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026
The last recorded rainfall on Halloween in L.A. occurred in 2014, when a quarter of an inch of precipitation fell on downtown Los Angeles, according to weather service records.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
Warm weather would increase precipitation, which would increase cloud cover, which would lead to less snow melt at higher elevations.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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
When these two precipitations are finished, distill off about seven-eighths of the acid by a gentle heat, and what comes over is in the most perfect degree of purity.
From Elements of Chemistry, In a New Systematic Order, Containing all the Modern Discoveries by Antoine Lavoisier
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
Accretion by chemical precipitations, by welding, by pressure, by agglutination.
From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
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