A headlong plunging year

[q_pheevr]

Since I intend to get on a plane tomorrow, I thought I'd see what my daily newspaper (online edition) had to say about what the weather has in store for us, which turned out to include the following sentence:
There are just 11 days left in 2008, but the most precipitous year on record is far from over.

I'm not sure I would-or could-have used "most

Comments

[harkalark]

*checks dictionary*

Nope, totally not what it means. Those wacky journalists.

[6_bleen_7]

Don't know about you, but this has been the steepest year I've ever encountered.

[merle_]

I would probably ditch that sentence structure and start over: "Even though this is already a year of record precipitation, we still have eleven days left, and more is expected to come." (assuming that was what they meant).

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[ext_140844]

One of my friends believes the Flood will happen again soon...

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[anonymous]

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