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  2. Earth rainfall climatology - Wikipedia

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    On average, Tutunendo has 280 days with rainfall per year. Over ⅔ of the rain (68%) falls during the night. The average relative humidity is 90% and the average temperature is 26.4 °C. [63] Quibdó, the capital of Chocó, receives the most rain in the world among cities with over 100,000 inhabitants: 9,000 millimetres (350 in) per year. [62]

  3. Diurnal cycle - Wikipedia

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    Earth's rotation relative to the Sun causes the 24-hour day/night cycle. A diurnal cycle (or diel cycle) is any pattern that recurs every 24 hours as a result of one full rotation of the planet Earth around its axis. [1] Earth's rotation causes surface temperature fluctuations throughout the day and night, as well as weather changes throughout ...

  4. Precipitation - Wikipedia

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    Thus, fog and mist are not precipitation; their water vapor does not condense sufficiently to precipitate, so fog and mist do not fall. (Such a non-precipitating combination is a colloid .) Two processes, possibly acting together, can lead to air becoming saturated with water vapor: cooling the air or adding water vapor to the air.

  5. What is graupel? How it is different from sleet or hail? - AOL

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    Sleet and freezing rain occur by a similar process, but are different forms of precipitation. Both are most common in the winter. Sleet occurs when snowflakes melt into a raindrop in a wedge of ...

  6. Atmospheric circulation - Wikipedia

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    During the day, air warmed by the relatively hotter land rises, and as it does so it draws a cool breeze from the sea that replaces the risen air. At night, the relatively warmer water and cooler land reverses the process, and a breeze from the land, of air cooled by the land, is carried offshore by night.

  7. Why seniors are more vulnerable to heat-related illness - AOL

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    Having senior parents, I wanted to explore this further and learn what I can do to help. Heat and the body's natural mechanism for cooling off The human body has a natural mechanism for regulating ...

  8. The Ashes: Why does rain stop cricket and what can be done? - AOL

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  9. Precipitation types - Wikipedia

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    Typical precipitation types associated with a warm front advancing over frigid air Precipitation in the form of a sunshower. In meteorology, the different types of precipitation often include the character, formation, or phase of the precipitation which is falling to ground level. There are three distinct ways that precipitation can occur.