precipitation
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This is about three times the average rainfall in August, and the highest volume of precipitation ever recorded in the country.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
At greater heights, droplet collisions, precipitation formation, and faster updrafts can reduce the total surface area of droplets, allowing supersaturation to build.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026
The datasets, gathered over decades, contain vital information about Earth systems, including greenhouse gases, clouds, precipitation and ice sheets.
From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026
Most are in northern Ontario and Quebec, where it has been hot and dry, as well as the Northwest Territories, which is experiencing a drought and received less than 40% of normal precipitation in June.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Sierra watched the speckles of precipitation jangle and spin beneath a lamppost.
From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older
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
When these two precipitations are finished, distill off about seven-eighths of the acid by a gentle heat, and what comes over is in the most perfect degree of purity.
From Elements of Chemistry, In a New Systematic Order, Containing all the Modern Discoveries by Antoine Lavoisier
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
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
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