### weather | precipitation:

Acid precipitation
* Most acid precipitation has productivity.
* Some acid precipitation affects chemistry
  - distribution
* can make forests more vulnerable to disease and damage by insects.
* contains sulfuric and nitric acids.
* harms forests, soil, and lakes
  - thousands of lakes, ponds, rivers, and streams worldwide
* impairs many small lakes and ponds in New York.
* includes rain, fog, snow, and dry deposition.
* is air pollution
* threat to forests and aquatic ecosystems.

Acidic precipitation
* Some acidic precipitation contains dioxide
  - sulfur dioxide
* affects water quality and biological communities.
* has a marked effect on the spatial distribution of sulphate in lakes.

Acidified precipitation
* has many adverse effects on the environment.
* leaches various elements from forest soils.

### weather | precipitation:

Annual precipitation
* Most annual precipitation occurs in summer.
* drops rapidly and summer temperatures soar.
* exceeds evapotranspiration.
* is characterized by wide regional variations
  - heaviest in late summer and early fall, occurring as rain
* ranges widely in various parts of the country.
+ Alikovo, Alikovsky District, Chuvash Republic, Climate
  * The climate is moderately continental, with long cold winters and warm summers. The absolute recorded low was  and the record high was. Annual precipitation is up to.

### weather | precipitation:

Hail
* Most hails come from clouds
  - fall from clouds
  - occur in countries
* Some hails consist of large particles
  - produce thunderstorms
* affects yields primarily by reducing stands and defoliating the plant.
* annually causes nearly one billion dollars in damage nationally.
* are bombardment
  - calling
  - exclamations
  - greeting
  - objects
* begins as tiny ice pellets that collide with water droplets.
* can be extremely dangerous both as projectiles and as a cause of hypothermia
  - dangerous, particularly when accompanied by strong winds
  - very short-lived but is usually associated with rain and a drop in temperature
* cause damage.
* cause significant damage
  - structural damage
* causes hundreds of millions of dollars in damage each year
  - millions of dollars of damage to crops and property each year
  - more monetary loss than any other type of thunderstorm-spawned severe weather
  - much damage and injury to crops, livestock, property, and airplanes
  - severe bruising on the stalk which can result in breakage or stalk rot
* comes down at great speed, especially when accompanied by high winds
  - in strange shapes, sometimes with ragged edges
  - quickly and fiercely, without consideration to where it falls
* does fall in Egypt but is never bad.
* forms in very unstable convective clouds such a cumulonimbus.
* freezes from the inside out, while sleet freezes from the outside in.
* includes diamond dust.
* includes frost mist
  - hailstones
* includes ice crystal
  - needles
  - snow mist
* is chunks of ice
  - common during the summer thunderstorms
  - primarily an afternoon or evening phenomenon in Colorado
  - rain that falls as lumps of ice
* is usually part of a thunderstorm
  - tornado-bearing cloud
* occurs during severe weather
  - in spring and autumn
* processes within a supercell.
* sometimes forms in well-developed thunderstorm clouds.

### weather | precipitation | hail:

Large hail
* can cause serious injury and has even been known to kill people
  - make a circular crack if the hail hits it hard enough
* common occurrence in strong thunderstorms, especially supercells.
* does extensive damage to property and crops every year.
* is also a threat to small mammals and it kills many birds.

Small hail
* can damage crops.
* is frequent with the springtime thunderstorms and has been observed during other seasons.

Heavy precipitation
* is observed over large areas of the tropical continents.
* occurs during mild winters which are dominated by mid-latitude cyclones.