They can dump lots of precipitation (snow or rain) accompanied by high winds. (sciencenewsforstudents.org)
And so unless we can get their productivity and their resilience up quite dramatically, the increased variance in the weather, including lots of precipitation all at once, they just don't have the ability to deal with it. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)
(This year,) there's been a lot of precipitation and quite a few freeze - thaw cycles which have added to the pothole totals throughout the entire region.» (wben.com)