You can often treat the symptoms of swelling that occurs on both sides of your body yourself, Dr. Botek says. 1. Compression socks. Available at your local drug or grocery store, compression socks provide pain relief and prevent fluid collection in your legs, ankles and feet.
Precipitation in the tundra totals 150 to 250 mm a year, including melted snow. That's less than most of the world's greatest deserts! Still, the tundra is usually a wet place because the low temperatures cause evaporation of water to be slow.
Annual precipitation has a wide range in alpine tundra, but it is generally higher in Arctic tundra. For example, annual precipitation may be as much as 64 cm (25 inches) at higher elevations in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado but may be less than 7.6 cm (3 inches) in the northwestern Himalayas.