Talk:Precipitation (meteorology)

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Date of review: 10 November 2006
The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the debate was don't move. —Nightstallion (?) 11:31, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Requested move

Proposal  : Precipitation (meteorology) → Precipitation
Rationale :   The majority of the links will be to the meteorological meaning of precipitation, not the relatively obscure chemistry reference.
Proposer : Thiseye 00:08, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Survey and discussion

Please add  * Support  or  * Oppose  followed by a brief explanation, then sign your vote using "~~~~".

  • Oppose. Jibbajabba 22:56, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Oppose. Why change something that is not broken and is correct and works? Vegaswikian 02:48, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
    • Because it's the more natural page to be displayed instead of a disambiguation page. 90% of the links to Precipitation are in reference to the meteorological term. Without this change, scores of links pointing to the disambiguation page need to be updated to the meteorological article.--Thiseye 03:48, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
      • Using 'links in' is not always a good indicator. If editors do a good job, there will be no redirects. If someone cleans up links to the correct article it will not point to a redirect or dab article. Vegaswikian 06:00, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
    • Modifying vote to Oppose and Move Precipitation (disambiguation) to Precipitation. Vegaswikian 06:20, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Support --Wikimol 06:34, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Oppose. I agree that the meteorological meaning is more predominant among the laity, but I don't think it's overwhelmingly so, not enough to warrant placing the meterological article at "Precipitation". Especially since both uses are "scholarly" topics found in traditional encyclopedias. Precipitation (disambiguation) should be moved back to "Precipitation", in my opinion. — Knowledge Seeker দ 06:55, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Oppose - the meteorological use of the term is similar to chemistry academics' use of the term. The present definition is much more general-case. - Richardcavell 05:26, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

I am beginning to wonder if these units could be better reported in metric units with a link to the Wiki conversion of units page. Are there no objections if I go ahead and make the change? --RolandG 10:37, 13 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Metric all the way! Anyway, we do need some graphics here, I think that would illustrate things a lot clearer! Houshuang

In my opinion, it would be useful to discuss the processes by which precipitation forms (see Met Office: Clouds, although maybe some of this information is a bit technical for the general reader. TCrossland 18 Jul 2004.

The precipitation article is full of incorrect facts. Read Bad Meterology: Bad Clouds and revise this article.

I tried to improve at least the first part of this contribution. Still much to do. PSeibert 05 Jan 2006.

This is incorrect article. Needs to be revised. --Pflatau 00:54, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

I am tagging this article for cleanup, since it seems to require both fact-checking and significant copyediting. motorneuron

Greatly edited How Precipitation Forms. Hope this helps. Disorganized 676 02:44, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Moved from precipitation

The amount, usually expressed in millimeters or inches of liquid water depth, of the water substance that has fallen at a given point over a specified period of time. As this is usually measured in a fixed rain gauge, small amounts of dew, frost, rime, etc., may be included in the total. The more common term rainfall is also used in this total sense to include not only amounts of rain, but also the water equivalents of frozen precipitation. For obvious reasons, precipitation is the preferred general term. [1]

Daniel Collins 19:56, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Measurement of ~

Recently MPF tagged this section. I linked to the article on rain gauges, maybe you can use the stuff there to fix this section. Bye, Shinobu 20:54, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

An attempt was made to change the point of view of the article and add metric versions. Since wikipedia mentions specifically not to grab information from one page for another without adding the relevant links to the original material, none of that information could be used, even if it was 100% correct. If anyone knows of similar networks to CoCoRAHS outside the United States, feel free to add the link. Thegreatdr 20:28, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Rewrite of Precipitation

The section was incomplete and need to be expanded, and I added a reference Dcwinds 19:32, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] METAR Codes

I'm going to go ahead and remove the wikilinks on the METAR code abbreviations. All of the abbreviations link to either disambig pages (all which contain METAR as a possible use) or redirect to the same page as the name. I don't see any compelling reason to keep them. If there is, let me know. Greg Back 14:44, 10 August 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Vandalism

This page is being a constant target for vandalism lately. We have a section that ends in a fragment now. I have no idea how to revert to a previous good version. Anyone who can, do so. Thegreatdr 22:58, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Failed GA

According to the criterias an article must have all its information sourced, preferably with intext references. This article does not comply with that. / Fred-Chess 15:46, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] A Question

Doesn't precipitation fall just about everywhere in the world? I think that either we need to put in precipitation patterns around the world, or just take out the "Rainfall patterns in the United States" section. Of course, to put in the rainfall patterns of the entire world would probably take another article. Just a thought. --SuperCow 02:36, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The Answer

Um, no. -- Hard Raspy Sci 03:33, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] But to discuss your statement...

Yeah, probably, the latter. -- Hard Raspy Sci 03:36, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Duplicate section names

There are two sections called "types of precipitation." One or both should have their names changed in order to avoid confusion. Perhaps keep section 1 as types of precipitation and modify section 3 to be entitled causes of precipitation. I'm not a meteorological expert, so I can't say for sure that "causes of precipitation" is a good title for section 3. -- Drooling Sheep 04:17, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

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