For unknown reasons, shifting global weather patterns have brought more precipitation to the fjord-dented coastline.
Winter and spring 2015 brought average or just-below average precipitation to the Pacific Northwest of North America.
By putting in their places those who took an opposite view of rain, he reduced precipitation to simple dogma.
The trees provide copious surfaces on which that condensation—"occult precipitation", to ecologists can take place.
They found rain and other precipitation to be much more acidic than expected.
There are daily high and low temperatures, precipitation to the nearest hundredth of an inch, wind speed, maximum gusts and thunderstorm days.
Jack Kelly, director of the National Weather Service, said it would take a "large, large amount of precipitation" to end the drought.
Corn and soybean farmers are eager for precipitation to prepare the soil for their plantings in April.
What does it mean to hedge against the weather? A. We use various weather measures, such as temperature and precipitation, to come up with various averages for a city, a region.
They cause more precipitation to fall as rain and less as snow, which for a region like California that relies on the snowpack in the Sierra Nevada mountains as its natural water storage system, is problematic.
It has flash-frozen the Rocky Mountains, hit-and-run its way through the Midwest and brought a characteristically complex mix of precipitation to New England, where complex precipitation is regarded as a sign of character.
