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Precipitation, especially rain, has a dramatic effect on agriculture. All plants need at least some water to survive, therefore rain (being the most effective means of watering) is important to agriculture. While a regular rain pattern is usually vital to healthy plants, too much or too little rainfall can be harmful, even devastating to crops.
Precipitation is measured using a rain gauge, and more recently remote sensing techniques such as a weather radar. When classified according to the rate of precipitation, rain can be divided into categories. Light rain describes rainfall which falls at a rate of between a trace and 2.5 millimetres (0.098 in) per hour. Moderate rain describes ...
Average precipitation. The characteristics of United States rainfall climatology differ significantly across the United States and those under United States sovereignty. . Summer and early fall bring brief, but frequent thundershowers and tropical cyclones which create a wet summer and drier winter in the eastern Gulf and lower Eas
While the New York City area is expected to receive 2.5-3 inches of rain from the storm system, it doesn’t qualify as an extreme event, according to Jessica Spaccio, a climatologist with the ...
The lack of rain in the Northeast has been rather remarkable. New York City and Wilmington, Delaware, are just two cities where only a trace of rain has fallen for the entire month of October so far.
Why has it been raining so much in South Florida? Experts say the latest windy, rainy storm system has nothing to do with hurricane season — and it's finally moving on. The storm system that ...
Graupel was formerly referred to by meteorologists as "soft hail." Graupel is distinguishable from true hail in both the shape and strength of the pellet and, in some cases, the circumstances in which it falls. Ice from hail is formed in hard, relatively uniform layers and usually falls only during thunderstorms.
More than 120 million people from Atlanta to Philadelphia found themselves at risk of severe thunderstorms Monday, including strong wind gusts, hail, and heavy rain.