Series of annual, monthly and seasonal precipitation from 50 stations, distributed all over the Basilicata territory (southern Italy), were studied for the period 1923–2000. All the series were checked for homogeneity using MASH v. 1.0.1 software and the time series analysis was performed with the Mann–Kendall nonparametric test in order to detect possible trends. The results show that the annual total rainfall decreased by ab...