atmospheric
Example Sentences
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The atmospheric river storm soaking Southern California is expected to peak Saturday, with officials warning of potential flooding and damaging landslides.
From Los Angeles Times
You can see the atmospheric pressure drop pretty quick before noon.
From Los Angeles Times
Which is why water managers — and skiers — are hoping for a Christmas miracle as an enormous atmospheric river takes aim at California this week.
From Los Angeles Times
As atmospheric CO2 rises and temperatures increase, rainfall carries larger amounts of nutrients such as phosphorus into the sea.
From Science Daily
Next arrived atmospheric rivers—intense weather systems that broke levees, flooded towns and killed at least one in Western Washington.
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