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
Moneta Sleet Jr. assigned to cover her husband's funeral service, she demanded that Sleet be a part of the press pool. If he wasn't, she threatened to bar all photographers from the service. Besides his photo of Coretta Scott King, he also captured grieving widow Betty Shabazz at the funeral of her husband Malcolm X. His collection "Special Moments in African American History: The photographs of Moneta Sleet Jr. 1955-1996" was published posthumously in 1999. Sleet is the father of Gregory M. Sleet, a judge on the United States District Court for the District of Delaware. Sleet, while a resident of Baldwin, NY,