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rainfall::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | rain |
| Type of | precipitation, downfall |
| Has types | downpour, drizzle, mizzle, monsoon, pelter, rain shower, waterspout, deluge, cloudburst, rainstorm, shower, soaker, torrent |
Examples of rainfall
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Rainfall across the region over the past 36 hours has ranged from 1 to 3 inches.
From the post-gazette.com
That was better than the last rainfall, three-hundredths of an inch, on Aug. 21.
From the kentucky.com
The region appeared to face no major flooding threat from rainfall late Tuesday.
From the stltoday.com
However, rainfall has become less and less intense, except in these two regions.
From the sciencedaily.com
During the same period, rainfall and snowfall had shown a clear declining trend.
From the independent.co.uk
Rainfall is forecast between 6 and 12 inches, with isolated totals to 20 inches.
From the sciencedaily.com
The only thing that changes from dry to wet is the humidity and rainfall levels.
From the ntnews.com.au
The results showed a strong relationship between the rainfall patterns and ENSO.
From the sciencedaily.com
When Neuheisel was in Washington, he said he'd talk up rainfall as an advantage.
From the latimes.com
- Rain: water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere
- Rain is liquid precipitation, as opposed to non-liquid kinds of precipitation such as snow, hail and sleet. Rain requires the presence of a thick layer of the atmosphere to have temperatures above the melting point of water near and above the Earth's surface. ...
- The amount of rain that falls on a single occasion
- Most of the rainfall occurs in the monsoon season from June to September. Rainfall varies from 9.0 to 693 mm/month. Average annual rainfall is 725 mm.
- Quantity of rain falling within a given area in a given time, usually the previous 24 hours. Usually expressed in millimetres (mm).
- Annual average is approximately 80 inches (2,509 millimeters)
- The quantity of water that falls as rain only. Not synonymous with precipitation.
- [JP 1-02] (DoD) The water that is precipitated from the base surge clouds after an underwater burst of a nuclear weapon. This rain is radioactive and presents an important secondary effect of such a burst.
- The amount of rain in a year, measured in inches or centimeters
