Precipitation is water that falls from a cloud to the ground: rain (drops of liquid water), snow (flakes made of ice crystals stuck together) or hail (balls of ice, called hailstones, that fall from storm clouds).
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Example 7.12 (A week of rain at school)
The class read the rain gauge every morning for a week and found: Monday 0, Tuesday 4, Wednesday 12, Thursday 7, Friday 0, Saturday 2, Sunday 5 millimetres. The wettest day was Wednesday. It did not rain on Monday nor on Friday. In the whole week, millimetres fell. Wednesday alone brought 12 of the 30 millimetres, that is of the week’s rain.