I was standing outside just now, and it is really sunny but it had been raining earlier, but then it started raining a bit again and i looked up and there were no clouds, apart from one miles away, why was it raining?!
2006-08-19 01:42:43 · 11 answers · asked by Alicat 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Weather
If the conditions are right rising humid air can cool quickly and fall down as rain.
It happens in Jamaica all the time. They call it rain of the sun.
The warm moist air rises up against the mountains and comes back down as rain without a cloud in sight.
It was really a sight to see and feel.
2006-08-19 05:31:53 · answer #1 · answered by beedaduck 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Rain with no clouds is called sun-shower.
A sunshower is an unusual meteorological phenomenon in which rain falls from a cloudless sky due to temperature and humidity fluctuations in the atmosphere. The term is found in the U.S., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, and also in parts of Britain. Surprisingly the word appears only in a few dictionaries. This word exists in many languages. (In Swedish, it's just plain "solregn" -- sunrain.) A great many languages have animal associations with this word, often to do with marriage (or, that activity for which the word marriage may be considered a suitable euphemism). These conditions often lead to the appearance of a rainbow.
2006-08-19 16:32:37 · answer #2 · answered by Jeramie L 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The rain is a depletion of the clouds themselves, so the rain started, the clouds depleted themselves, and by the time they hit the ground, the 'source' clouds were nothing more.
That happened to me in the mid-1970's, it was really unfathomable that it was a bright blue sky with no source for rain. But boy, were the raindrops huge!!
2006-08-19 08:47:38 · answer #3 · answered by MK6 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
that's coming from the upper atmosphere. It sometimes can blow for miles..you may never see the rain cloud because they maybe as far away as 75 miles...they fall about 12 miles
2006-08-19 08:48:17 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
clouds are groups of water mocules and the rain sits up there untill the cloud becomes to heavy or amphotser condtions change, however alot of the clouds you cant see
2006-08-19 08:58:22 · answer #5 · answered by a 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was from the clouds miles away. The upper level winds can carry the rain.
Or, it was dripping from the tree above you.
2006-08-19 08:48:01 · answer #6 · answered by AnswerMom 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Same way here it can be raining on the other side of the street and not on my side. The width of just a city street, site specific.
Please give us rain, we've been good.
2006-08-19 11:48:53 · answer #7 · answered by hnz57txn 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The wind blows the water droplets great distances.
2006-08-19 08:46:40 · answer #8 · answered by JeffE 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Was a pigeon passing over u..?
2006-08-19 08:48:40 · answer #9 · answered by Galdriel 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hign flying birds
2006-08-19 08:48:32 · answer #10 · answered by duc602 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋