Precipitation in a sentence as a noun

We expect light precipitation, but our confidence is low.

For anyone else that was about to go check: Partly cloudy today with a 10% chance of precipitation tonight, no frost expected.

Snowflakes, like other precipitation, form around some sort of condensation nucleus -- in other words, dust.

In both cases you should get a drop in rho_hv, the correlation coefficient between the channels which will help to differentiate it from actual precipitation.

If you want to make a precipitation reconstruction, you find a site that has very little soil moisture storage, such as trees basically growing out of fractures in steep bedrock.

Localized precipitation can be unbelievable when a front stalls over an area, no major event like a typhoon / hurricane even required.

My understanding is that a lot of the time when you hear 60% chance of precipitation, the weatherman doesn't mean 40% chance it won't rain in the area, but that roughly 60% of the area or population will see rain.

Mehta tells TechCrunch that '33 percent of the year, Chicago has some form of precipitation' and that his company has learned in the San Francisco area that 'people just do not like grocery shopping when its raining.

Satellite observations, analyzed to remove the effect of variations in precipitation, show that cover across these environments has increased by 11%.

"Nature provides about 200 million acre-feet of precipitation to California in average years.

"Streambed confirmed" conjures ideas of desert playas or dry gullies that are just waiting for rain, when the reality is that we're investigating a planet that hasn't seen liquid precipitation in perhaps billions of years.

As well as having to have a lot of big computers these agencies also need source data, this data - observations - comes from airports and plenty of other places where things like wind speed, precipitation temperature and so on is actually measured.

If a farmer in Iowa purchases a derivative that pays out inversely based on the precipitation in Iowa, then if there is a drought, the farmer will automatically receive money and if there is enough rain the farmer will be happy because their crops would do well.

Precipitation definitions

noun

the quantity of water falling to earth at a specific place within a specified period of time; "the storm brought several inches of precipitation"

noun

the process of forming a chemical precipitate

noun

the falling to earth of any form of water (rain or snow or hail or sleet or mist)

See also: downfall

noun

the act of casting down or falling headlong from a height

noun

an unexpected acceleration or hastening; "he is responsible for the precipitation of his own demise"

noun

overly eager speed (and possible carelessness); "he soon regretted his haste"

See also: haste hastiness hurry hurriedness