There are many ways to measure moisture in the atmosphere including relative humidity and dew point. Another way you may not have heard about is called precipitable water and meteorologists use this ...

The term precipitable water is what the depth of all of moisture in the troposphere would be if it were condensed and deposited on the Earth’s surface. It is mathematically determined by integrating ...

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Imagine wringing out the entire atmosphere like a sponge; how much water would fall? That’s what precipitable water tells us. Precipitable water (often abbreviated as PWAT) is a measure of how much ...

The title above refers to a parameter that meteorologists use to judge the overall moisture content of an airmass, and we had a rather moisture laden airmass with fairly high precipitable water (PW) ...