stratiform

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“We’re keeping our fingers crossed we can get more of a stratiform rain event versus more lightning,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times

That leaves Seattle with mostly stratiform precipitation — the drizzle or mist that sprinkles gently across your hair but leaves your scalp unscathed.

From Seattle Times

Stratiform rain tends to fall evenly across a region, while convection rain can fall heavily on one block but be barely felt just blocks away, said Dustin Guy, another weather service meteorologist.

From Seattle Times

The coast gets two kinds of rain: stratiform and convective.

From Seattle Times

Stratiform precipitation is so named because, from the air, it would look like a sheet or a layer of billions of tiny raindrops that “just fall out of the clouds,” Johnson said.

From Seattle Times