precipitation
precip informal

We have now had 17 days of precipitation in the 38 we've been on the road.

If we could get some precipitation, that would be good.

There are significant changes in precipitation from one year to another too.

When the month started, precipitation was only 75 percent of normal.

There are only 8.2 days of precipitation during this month.

The months of September and more are the most precipitation.

Precipitation is low throughout the year, particularly in the summer months.

Precipitation has fallen on 49 of the last 84 days.

No more precipitation is expected until this weekend, he said.

Precipitation in the interior is low with only a year.

The only precipitation we have had today was about 10 minutes of light rain.

During this month there is precipitation for an average of 15.5 days.

The precipitation does not have good distribution in time or space.

Most of the precipitation is delivered in the summer months.

Some areas received a month's worth of precipitation in just 24 hours.

Most of precipitation takes place during the winter months and least - early fall.

Used to compare precipitation from one water year to another.

Can you tell me what the average temperature and level of precipitation is?

He said the level had dropped because of low precipitation levels over the last three years.

Precipitation started as snow across the region during the early morning of the 1st.

The most likely cause is a local reduction in precipitation.

It was not a precipitation he normally had to face.

Precipitation is almost spread throughout the year at the same rate.

June, on average, records the most precipitation of any month.

In the summer months there is low precipitation with light winds.

Into the zone where the precip had fallen as rain?

If he tells me you're not cooperating, you'll be tending a precip station before sundown.

New York City is about to suffer "precip," promptly followed by yet another freeze.

"The precip hasn't been too bad, so I'd guess about a foot, with drifts coming up maybe knee high."

He saw the precip towers and the cliffs and the docks passing under them as they came about.

But it takes constant maintenance to keep frozen precip off the gimbals and lenses."

The water that evaporates, falls as precip, and recharges groundwater decreases the amount of depletion.

Average precip.

A boat out of the precip station, maybe; maybe that end of Reseune had boats.

The front was gushing precip, dropping hail in big lemon-sized chunks, and blowing some impressive gust fronts.

Record Precip Year(s)

The bios patches itself into the CIC weather net so that it knows when it's about to run into precip.

Remember how we mapped this out: first lights you see on your right are still Reseune: that's the number ten precip station, up on the bluffs.

The monthly precip counter is once again added to the local forecast, now part of the "now tab" on the LDL.

The computer software PRECIP has been developed to predict chemical reaction accompanying fluid flow in geological systems.

That'll bring a lot of rain with it, maybe an inch worth, but for all of today we have clear skies-less than two-tenths high clouds-and no precip.

Monthly Precip is moved from the local forecast LDL to a new Almanac tab during national programming.

In the high clouds from which the raindrop-dwelling Precip Winds gazed down, Armiger's voice flickered as unread heat-lightning on a frequency they did not attend.

He was dreading something, and the yearning for trees and lawn and flowers and someplace that was not hospital had precip- itated the nebulous contact.

All this is a roundabout way of getting at "precip," pronounced "PREE-sip," which has been unusually heavy this spring in broadcast meteorologizing.

"Precip," pronounced "PREE-sip," is a slangy shortening of the mouth-filling "precipitation," meaning rain, snow, hail, sleet, and so on.

Any movement that lets the gas out of American talk must be encouraged, even if it produces some annoyingly cute new formations like "precip," pronounced "PREE-sip."

It sprang from the ruddy strand, leaped the crimson tide, and dropped three miles away upon a precip itous, jagged upthrust of rock frowning black from the lacquered depths.

"We just can't predict the other variables - temperature during the day and at night, and additional precip," said Mr. Konsella, of the New York Department of Environmental Conservation.