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Water falling from the sky because physics is done arguing with it.
means Rain, snow, sleet, or hail — any water that condenses out of the air and drops to the ground.
from From Latin praecipitare, 'to throw headlong,' built from prae- ('before, forward') and caput ('head') — the same root behind 'precipice' and 'precipitous.' The sense of falling headfirst got borrowed by chemists for anything that drops suddenly out of a solution, and later by weather-watchers for water dropping suddenly out of the sky.
- droplet size
- cloud droplets must grow a millionfold to fall
- hail record
- largest hailstone weighed nearly two pounds
- snowflake myth
- no two are identical, but many look close
- driest spot
- parts of Atacama Desert see none for years