why does it rain?

Answer 1

'Cos the weatherman said it was going to!!

Answer 2

1) On a warm day the sunshine heats up the ground. Air above the warmed ground also becomes warmer, and it begins to rise (because warm air is less dense than the air around it). As it warms up it absorbs more water because, as you should remember, warm air can hold more water than cool air.

2) The atmosphere gets cooler as you go higher - by roughly one degree centigrade cooler for every 100m of altitude in dry air - so as the warm air rises it becomes cooled again by the colder air around it.

3) Eventually the air reaches a height where the temperature forces the water vapour in the warm air to start condensing. This is called the condensation point, and is where the clouds begin to form. The typical cloud formed this way is called a cumulus cloud, or a cumulonimbus cloud when it has a grey bottom and 'looks like rain'.

4)The rain forming process starts, and usually leads to very heavy rain, perhaps with thunder and lightening. Convectional rain is often experienced at the end of a hot summer day and associated with torrential downpours with large drops and towering dark grey clouds.


In Summer months, look out for clouds forming over fields of corn, large carparks and concentrations of buildings. All these features heat up quickly and cause warmed air to rise. If you are lucky, you may be able to watch a towering cloud forming in a matter or ten minutes or so.

Answer 3

Water from rivers etc gets turned into water vapours and rises to high in the sky over the mountains, that water vapour turns into clouds which are tiny droplets of water and they become heavier and eventually they burst and the water comes down as rain, it is a cycle that never stops

Answer 4

Warm air turns the water from rivers, lakes, and oceans into water vapor that rises into the air. That water vapor forms clouds, which contain small drops of water or ice crystals (depending on how high the cloud is and how cold it is).

As clouds rise higher and higher, the air gets colder and colder. When the water vapor in the cloud becomes too heavy, it falls back to the ground as rain or snow.

Answer 5

didn't you go to school.

The water off the land is evaporated and forms clouds which move then when in the right atmosphere let go of the water particals known to us as rain. If we didn't have this cycle then nothing would grow and we would die out!

Answer 6

Let me tell u it's secret,
It rains, b'cause, the water evaporated from the water, resources cools there, which we get it as rain,
Now don't ask me What is evaporation!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 7

If it didn't rain, we wouldn't have any water on the planet. If we didn't have any water, we wouldn't survive.

That's just the way it is.

Answer 8

To water the roses....

It never rains in Manchester (UK) though......

Answer 9

Go to sites on Geography or weather.

Answer 10

'cos God's crying