Word: raining
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...need to know: boatmen, farmers, construction workers, streetwalkers. But others whose daily exposure to the hazards of the open air is limited to three minutes between bus stop and office lobby are also curious to the point of vague anxiety about variations in the temperature and the chances of rain...
...stations around the nation. But weathermen, the good ones at least, pa somewhat like doctors: several examining the same patient may arrive at different diagnoses. Experience and savvy count-knowing, for example, when a minor geographical shift of a pressure system might make the difference between a drenching rain and a couple of feet of snow...
Corrosive rain has become an insidious menace
What have they done to the rain ? -Malvina Reynolds
...fish in about a hundred lakes in New York's Adirondack wilderness. It has pelted the slopes of the Rockies, and has already affected Scandinavia and much of industrialized Western Europe and Japan. It is a newly recognized and increasingly harmful kind of pollution, invisible and insidious: acid rain, a corrosive precipitation that actually consists of weak solutions of sulfuric and nitric acids...