The monitors also serve as collection stations for precipitation, drinking water, and milk samples.

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Immediately he incorporated requests for precipitation into his daily prayers and sweat-lodge ceremonies.

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According to historical weather data, the level of precipitation for this particular region of Venezuela has been a consistent zero inches for the past several days.

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These detectors constantly monitor for signs of trouble and routinely collect air, precipitation, drinking water, and milk samples for analysis of radioactivity.

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The glacier contribution to Las Cuevas River runoff is analysed based on the Punta de Vacas River gauge station for a hypothetical year without snow precipitation (YWSP), when the snowmelt component is zero.

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Joe Sobel, a meteorologist for Accuweather, says the company's policy is to not change the percentages outputted by its models, but to modify how it presents those numbers for instance, by emphasizing chances of precipitation, even when they are low, on weekends and holidays, when precipitation can be particularly annoying.

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Perhaps the most compelling evidence for an increase in extreme weather events relates to heavy precipitation situations.

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And now the Arctic's upper layers are getting less dense, for several reasons: melting Arctic glaciers, rising surface-water temperatures, increased precipitation and an absence of salt concentrations resulting from sea-ice formation.

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They have been testing a laser system for measuring lunar dust and soil kicked up by rocket exhausts, and while using precipitation as a substitute to calibrate the laser, they found they could measure the average size of raindrops passing through it.

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