Quotes About Precipitation

Thunder rumbled overhead, the first drops of the promised storm finally falling.

United States Weather Bureau concluded that over 8,000 square miles,* 9 trillion gallons of water fell, weighing 33 billion tons.

Walled off from wet air by both the Andes and the Humboldt Current, the Peruvian littoral is astonishingly dry: the average annual precipitation is about two inches. The Atacama Desert, just south of Peru on the Chilean shore, is the driest place on earth—in some places rain has literally never been recorded

spitting a stinging rain

Finally, I was let down and joined the others at the window, to watch the sleet fall.

And since even the thought of winter precipitation caused the majority of drivers to lose any shred of competency they might own, she spent most of her trip avoiding, leapfrogging over, and cursing every cab and commuter. The

She turns the speedometer off. Running totally black now. Precipitating her way toward the sweet 'crete of the creek bottom like a black angel who has just had the shroud lines of her celestial parachute severed by the Almighty. And when the wheels finally meet the pavement, it just about drives her knees up through her jawbone. She finishes the whole gravitational transaction with not much altitude and a nasty head of dark velocity.

But in late March in the Pacific Northwest, a cease-fire on precipitation only meant the clouds were taking a coffee break.

The wet years in the late 1920s were not normal.

Each rise in temperature of 1°C results in a 7 percent increase in the moisture-holding capacity of the atmosphere.36 This causes a radical change in the way water is distributed, with more intense precipitation but a reduction in duration and frequency.

Really, I didn't like Alaska. It rained, almost every day, at least 300 days out of the year.

Rain wasn't quite falling yet, but it had scheduled an appointment.

was still a fine, persistent drizzle. There was a word in Scots for it—"smirr.

The rain had not started falling yet, but it had scheduled an appointment.

What's exceptional about our blue marble is not that we had water. It's that we held on to it, and that we still do. While the ancient oceans of Venus and Mars vaporized into space, Earth kept its life-giving water. Luckily for us, the forecast called for rain.

Not infrequently in the wide skies over Yuma and other parts of the arid Southwest, residents watch sheets of rain begin to unfurl from auspicious purple storm clouds, backlit by the sun. But the rain stops halfway, hanging mid-horizon like a magician's trick. Known as rain streamers or by their scientific name VIRGA, the half-sheets evaporate into the dry air before the rain can reach the ground.

A three-inch rain in Phoenix means three inches between drops.

The sky is darkening like a stain Something is going to fall like rain And it won't be flowers

There's a 30% chance that it's already raining.

THERE IS an old saying that in Belfast it rains five days out

During the following winter, superstorms such as this were routine. In the Sierra Nevada, the standing snowfall record of 750 inches, set in 1906, was eclipsed by fifteen feet.

In March the soft rains continued, and each storm waited courteously until its predecessor sunk beneath the ground.

The solution to our water problems is more rain.

We haven't had any more rain since it stopped raining.