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Precipitation has been listed as one of the Natural sciences good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.

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February 12, 2025	Good article reassessment	Kept
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Section heading: changes to due climate change

I think the section heading "changes due to global warming" should be changed to "‎Changes due to climate change". For the same reason why the main Wikipedia article is now called climate change and no longer "global warming". There is much more than just "warming" which is happening, there is also an intensification of the water cycle (see effects of climate change on the water cycle) etc. Also, the greenhouse gas emissions also cause ocean acidification which comes from the CO2 itself, not from the warming. So the general trend is to simply use the term climate change as it's all encompassing. See all the Wikipedia articles that now have "climate change" in their title, e.g. effects of climate change. EMsmile (talk) 08:52, 5 May 2023 (UTC)

Climate change is the result of global warming, which therefore is the ultimate cause of changes in precipitation patterns. Beyond My Ken (talk) 11:28, 5 May 2023 (UTC)

it's not the warming as such that is the root cause but the imbalance of the Earth's energy budget. Stressing only the warming (temperature effect) is not enough. That's exactly why in all the Wikipedia articles about climate change/warming, we are now using "climate change" in the title, not "global warming". See e.g. here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Climate_change EMsmile (talk) 11:41, 5 May 2023 (UTC)

GA concerns

I am concerned that this article no longer meets the good article criteria. Some of my concerns are outlined below:

There is a lot of uncited text, particularily in the "Satellite data sets" section
There is an orange "update" banner from 2022 on top of the "Changes due to global warming" section: has this been resolved?

Is anyone interested in addressing the above concerns, or should this go to WP:GAR? Z1720 (talk) 14:00, 27 October 2024 (UTC)

GA Reassessment

Precipitation

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Result: Issues resolved. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 13:09, 12 February 2025 (UTC)

There is a lot of uncited text, particularly in the "Satellite data sets" section. There is an orange "update" banner from 2022 on top of the "Changes due to global warming" section: has this been resolved? Z1720 (talk) 02:27, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

@Z1720 Unfortunately no - so unless anyone has the time and energy to summarise IPCC AR6 section 4.2.1.1 Observed Changes in Precipitation from https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg2/chapter/chapter-4/ I think the article is no longer good Chidgk1 (talk) 14:49, 9 January 2025 (UTC)

Will get to it shortly. E_F⁵ 19:01, 9 January 2025 (UTC)

@Z1720: and @Chidgk1: I've removed all uncited (and some weirdly promotional WikiHow links), I'll get to the "need update" banner shortly. How does it look now? E_F⁵ 19:04, 9 January 2025 (UTC)

@EF5: Thanks for doing this: it looks a lot better. There was an unresolved citation needed tag, and I added a second one. Z1720 (talk) 23:30, 9 January 2025 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

"Sleet"

"Sleet" has different meanings in the US and Commonwealth English, but the article was using it both ways without clarifying the difference in use. I've replaced all mentions of "sleet" with 'Rain and snow mixed ("sleet" in Commonwealth usage)' and 'Ice pellets ("sleet" in US usage) ' as appropriate. Iapetus (talk) 12:55, 5 February 2025 (UTC)

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