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<div class="definition"><div class="short_definition">Precipitation from a [[convective cloud]].</div><br/> <div class="paragraph">Showers are characterized by the suddenness with which they start and stop, by the rapid changes  of [[intensity]], and usually by rapid changes in the appearance of the sky. In weather observing  practice, showers are always reported in terms of the basic type of [[precipitation]] that is falling,  that is, [[rain]] showers, [[snow]] showers, [[sleet]] showers. In [[aviation weather observations]], these are  encoded RW, SW, and EW, respectively. <br/>''See'' [[airmass shower]].</div><br/> </div>
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