Rain largest increases are in the Northeast and Midwest, which in the past decade, have seen 31 and 16 percent more heavy downpours compared to the 1950s. Rhode Island is the state with the largest increase, 104%. McAllen, Texas is the city with the largest increase, 700%. Heavy downpour in the analysis are the days where total precipitation exceeded the top 1 percent of all rain and snow days during the years 1950–2014 The most successful attempts at influencing weather involve cloud seeding, which include techniques used to increase winter precipitation over mountains and suppress hail. Rainbands are cloud and precipitation
Rain and Snow and was recorded by Bill Monroe and also by the Del McCoury Band. Other performers who have recorded the song include Peter Rowan with Tony Rice (on the "Quartet" album), Sam Amidon, Pentangle, Rose Laughlin, Betsy Rutherford and the Be Good Tanyas. Rain and Snow Rain and Snow, also known as Cold Rain and Snow (Roud 3634), is an American folksong and in some variants a murder ballad. The song first appeared in print in Olive Dame Campbell and Cecil Sharp's 1917 compilation "English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians", which relates that it was collected from Mrs. Tom Rice