precipitation
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The weather service’s Climate Prediction Center said Thursday it expected much of California will probably have above-average precipitation during January, February and March.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 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
"We are expecting a high potential for lightning-caused wildfire starts, particularly in the central Interior and the Okanagan which are receiving limited precipitation and dry lightning," the service said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
This should bring a greater chance of rain, showers and thunderstorms, even to southern regions, with precipitation amounts closer to normal.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 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
Evaporation of the solvent is avoided, and in consequence a freedom from vexatious precipitations is secured, and more uniform and reliable results are obtained.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 417, December 29, 1883 by Various
Giant glaciers more than twice the length of the longest in the Alps occur on the south slope of the Himalaya Mountains, which receive frequent precipitations of snow from moist winds from the Indian Ocean.
From The Elements of Geology by William Harmon Norton
The roof constructed of these waterproof paper sheets proved itself to be a durable covering, being unimpenetrable to atmospheric precipitations, and soon several factories commenced manufacturing the paper.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 821, September 26, 1891 by Various
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