precipitation

El Niño is a climate pattern marked by unusual warmth in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean, and results in changes to the atmosphere that, typically, lead to above-average precipitation in Southern California.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026

Cloud-seeding sessions have to wait for clouds to form to try to coax them into precipitation.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

We’re having to reinforce roads to deal with extreme heat or extreme precipitation.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

Some elements of the water cycle change rapidly -- like precipitation, river flow and soil moisture, responding to weather within days or weeks.

From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026

In terms of precipitation, she observes, Antarctica “is the driest large area on Earth, drier overall than any large desert.”

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

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

But that series of precipitations had not yet taken place.

From Mushroom Town by Oliver Onions

These snows are, in fact, precipitations of vapor, condensed by the cold, and carried with it successively.

From The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars by L. P. Gratacap