Why don't rain drops taste salty ?

Question

If I'm right then rain clouds are made up of water that has (during the scientific weather process which name escapes me) come from the sea.

The best answer I have chosen is the most informative. I nearly chose a real funny one as the best. It was very good, and you know who you are.

Answer 1

1st answer is correct. While water can vaporize, the salt is too heavy to be lifted up into the clouds. Instead, it just remains in the ocean while the water vapor rises up.

You can do your own test of this if you live near the ocean... go down to the beach and fill a pot with water. Take it home and boil it until there is no water left. You will be left with the bottom of the pan being coated with salt and no water to speak of :)

Answer 2

Because salt doesn't evaporate -it stays in the sea.

As the rains fall and water flows over the land, the water dissolves salt out of the rocks, washes the salt into streams, then rivers, and finally carries the salt to the sea. The salt stays in the sea because no water flows out of the sea-just as no water flows out of Lakes. When seawater evaporates to form clouds, almost all of the salt stays behind. The left-behind salt slowly accumulates until, over the eons, the seas get saltier.

Answer 3

Why don't raindrops taste salty? You have alot of nerve asking a question like that, especially on this site. Sir, kids could be reading this. Have you ever thought about that? And what about all the special interest groups that fight for the protection of raindrops? You never thought about their feelings either. Did you? No you didn't. You were too busy drinking rain. Weren't you? Rain drops have feelings too sir. And I'm just not gonna stand for it anymore. I'm calling Green Peace. See what you've done now?

Answer 4

Sometimes they do. But for the most part they don't because water evaporates to form clouds. Salt doesn't evaporate. So when clouds form over oceans only the water evaporates, not the salt.

Answer 5

It basically distilled water - the salt gets left behind when the water evaporates.

Of course, it then picks up all sorts of other yucky stuff from the atmosphere, so tasting rain may not be a brilliant idea!

Answer 6

water evaporates, salt in the water doesn't. Hence water goes up to clouds, salt stays in sea. Which is why sea water tastes salty and fresh water doesn't

Answer 7

The salt stays in the sea. This is how desalination plants work also, by evaporating clean water and leaving the salts behind.

Answer 8

no longer until something is heavily incorrect or unusual. whilst water evaporates and enters the ambience (or its popped out by volcanoes or some different fairly small procedures - yet comparable element) as *freshwater.* It does not carry any salt. it rather is why in olden cases, human beings would assemble rainwater in barrels for laundry and ingesting and cooking. it rather is why in survival circumstances image voltaic stills would be set as much as make freshwater out of evaporated water. So no, it won't style like salt water, because of the fact it is not.

Answer 9

it's the water that evaporates into the air, not the salt. The rain becomes fresh water.

Answer 10

Working on that basis, why isn't rain blue? - after all, that's the usual colour of the sea ! I don't think you put an awful lot of thought into your question, did you?