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Topic: precipitation

Nadir view of the Martian South Pole. (Getty Images / Stocktrek Images)

Did it once snow on Mars?

Elizabeth Howell
Mars Dust Storm (Getty Images/MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

The secret history of water on Mars

Rae Hodge
Cars sit abandoned on the flooded Major Deegan Expressway in the Bronx following a night of heavy wind and rain from the remnants of Hurricane Ida on September 02, 2021 in New York City. Numerous people were killed in New York and tornadoes did heavy damage to parts of New Jersey as the evening storm caught many off guard with the severity of its rain and wind and flooding. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Why it’s raining harder than ever

Joseph Winters - Grist
Flood water surround homes damaged by Hurricane Harvey, Saturday, Aug. 26, 2017, in Rockport, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

what made harvey so extreme?

Russ Schumacher - The Conversation
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California's snowpack is on track for one of the wettest winters on record after five years of drought. (AP)

Andrea Thompson - Climate Central
FILE - In this May 1, 2014 photo, irrigation water runs along a dried-up ditch between rice farms in Richvale, Calif. (AP/Jae C. Hong)

CA drought worst in 1200 years

Joanna Rothkopf
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