precipitation
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Besides attracting super-high tides, the El Niño climate pattern makes above-average precipitation over Southern California more likely.
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
Silver ions were effective at cutting the DNA, but they also attached nonspecifically and caused precipitation.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
"Since the beginning of the year, precipitation has been around 30 percent below normal levels," the agency said in a statement on Wednesday.
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
Eight to twelve inches of precipitation was expected.
From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen
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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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In all precipitations the reagent should be added slowly, with constant stirring, and should be hot when circumstances permit.
From An Introductory Course of Quantitative Chemical Analysis With Explanatory Notes by Henry P. Talbot
And perhaps in the end the slopes were more laden by the smaller precipitations which deposited a daily accretion.
From Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 by Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury
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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