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
A significant storm system capable of producing strong updrafts, heavy precipitation and icing moved over southern Florida.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
When the researchers applied their improved model weighting to projections of precipitation, they found indications that current climate models may also underestimate future snowfall in southeastern Greenland and rainfall across the Mediterranean region.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026
Regardless, areas that haven’t received much steady precipitation could still remain vulnerable, cautioned David Acuña, a battalion chief with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection in Sacramento.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
In uncut forest, the canopy intercepts precipitation, absorbing the physical impact of its fall from the clouds.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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
But that series of precipitations had not yet taken place.
From Mushroom Town by Oliver Onions
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
The normal mean precipitations are about 11.7, 14.5, 10.5 and 10.2 in. for the same seasons.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" by Various
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