precipitation
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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
From mid-May through mid-July, most of Puerto Rico received less than 60 percent of its normal precipitation, according to NIDIS.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 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
Sierra watched the speckles of precipitation jangle and spin beneath a lamppost.
From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older
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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
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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
A special hall, with draught and ventilation, is set apart for precipitations by sulphureted hydrogen and the preparation of chlorine and other ill-smelling and deleterious gases.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 443, June 28, 1884 by Various
Between cousins there exist the ties of race, name, and favor—ties thicker than water, and yet not coagulated with the jealous precipitations of brotherhood or the enjoining obligations of the matrimonial yoke.
From Rolling Stones by O. Henry
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