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Precipitation is a basic feature of weather. It means rain, right?

1, wrong.

2. Precipitation refers to the phenomenon that water vapor in the air condenses and falls to the surface. It includes two parts. One is that the water vapor in the atmosphere condenses directly on the ground or the surface of ground objects and at low altitude, such as frost, dew, fog and fog, which is also called horizontal precipitation; The other part is water vapor condensate falling from the air to the ground, such as rain, snow, hail, rain, etc., also called vertical precipitation. However, pure frost, pure dew, pure fog and pure fog are not treated as precipitation. In China, according to the ground observation standard of National Meteorological Administration, precipitation only refers to vertical precipitation, and horizontal precipitation is not treated as precipitation. Precipitation does not necessarily happen, only effective precipitation will happen. In one day, the precipitation above 50 mm is rainstorm (torrential rain), above 25 mm is rainstorm, below 10-25mm is moderate rain, below10mm is light rain, above 75mm is rainstorm (torrential rain), and above 200mm is torrential rain.