Statistics for 🌧️Words For Precipitation

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This quiz has been taken 18 times
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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Cambridge: 1: rain in very small, light drops	Drizzle	92%
Macmillan: 1: a thick cloud that forms close to the ground or to water and is difficult to see through	Fog	92%
NOAA, getting way too bureaucratic: Showery precipitation in the form of irregular pellets or balls of ice more than 5 mm in diameter, falling from a cumulonimbus cloud. Description / Diameter (inches) Pea 0.25 Marble or Mothball 0.50 Penny or Dime 0.75 Nickel 0.88 Quarter 1.00 Half Dollar 1.25 Walnut or Ping Pong Ball 1.50 Golfball 1.75 Hen's Egg 2.00 Tennis Ball 2.50 Baseball 2.75 Tea Cup 3.00 Grapefruit 4.00 Softball 4.50	Hail	92%
Merriam: 1.a: water falling in drops condensed from vapor in the atmosphere 1.b: the descent of this water	Rain	92%
Macmillan [ignoring how commas are necessary in definitions]: 1: small soft white pieces of ice that fall from the sky and cover the ground	Snow	92%
Britannica: (pollution): precipitation possessing a pH of about 5.2 or below primarily produced from the emission of sulfur dioxide (SO₂) and nitrogen oxides...	Acid rain	83%
Cambridge: a violent wind that has a circular movement, especially in the West Atlantic Ocean	Hurricane	83%
Tropical rain season that brought Forrest Gump a plethora of well-defined rain types, such as sting-ing rain.	Monsoon	83%
Every cited definition because it's in the name: a single [unit] of rain is a ________.	Raindrop	83%
Cambridge: B1: a short period of rain or snow	Shower	83%
Whatever. It all feels the same on your face. Macmillan: rain that freezes or partly freezes as it falls from the sky Cambridge: wet, partly melted falling snow	Sleet	83%
Britannica: (meteorology): severe weather condition that is distinguished by low temperatures, strong winds, and large quantities of either falling or blowing snow	Blizzard	75%
Cambridge: a violent wind that has a circular movement, found in the West Pacific Ocean	Typhoon	75%
Britannica: (meteorology): also called [previous answer] or [answer before that], an intense circular storm that originates over warm tropical oceans and is characterized by low atmospheric pressure, high winds, and heavy rain.	Cyclone	67%
Don't think overly hard on this one. Merriam: 1.a: a deposit on the earth of ____, ____, ____, ____, or ____ also : the quantity of water deposited	Precipitation	67%
Also common Trump supporter insult and unaware self-appellation by such. Macmillan: 2: a single piece of snow that falls from the sky	Snowflake	67%
Macmillan: 1: a large amount of rain that comes down quickly	Downpour	58%
NOAA: intermittent light snowfall of short duration (generally light snow showers) with no measurable accumulation (trace category).	Flurries	50%
Macmillan: 1: LITERARY: a severe storm with strong winds and heavy rain or snow English language idiom: "a _______ in a teapot"	Tempest	50%
Often used in adjective form with the above answer, a _______ial ________, or as "a _______ial rain" Merriam: 1.a: a violent or forceful flow of fluid 1.b: a heavy [above answer] of rain —usually used in plural "coming down in _______s"	Torrent	50%
NOAA: ...the water freezes on contact with the surface, creating a coating of ice on whatever the raindrops contact.	Freezing rain	42%
Merriam: 1.a: an overflowing of the land by water 1.b: a drenching rain The Bible, name for The Great Flood: Matthew 24:38 "At that time, before the ______, men were busy eating and drinking, taking wives or giving them, up to the very day when Noah entered the Ark"	Deluge	33%
Macmillan: 1: water in the form of particles floating or falling in the atmosphere at or near the surface of the earth and approaching the form of rain	Mist	33%
Cambridge: 1: a very light fall of rain or snow that lasts only a short time. "We got just a ________.”	Sprinkle	33%
NOAA: 2. In nautical use, a severe local storm considered as a whole, that is, winds and cloud mass and (if any) precipitation, thunder and lightning.	Squall	33%
Colloquial misnomer. Britannica: a sudden, very heavy rainfall, usually local in nature and of brief duration. Most so-called __________s occur in connection with thunderstorms.	Cloudburst	17%