What would cause it to rain planetwide for forty days and forty nights?

Question

Would it even be possible to rain for that long over the whole planet?

Answer 1

That would be caused by the "Mother of all El Ninos"!!!

But seriously, I don't think we will ever know. If I remember correctly from my college weather forecasting class, in order for rain to occur, there must be moisture available, there must be lift to make the air mass rise rapidly, and there must be something to trigger this lift.

So, if the Earth was to suddenly blow up with equal energy blasting away from the center core, that would cause air surrounding the earth to lift rapidly upward from near the surface. With equal force in all direction, this lift will occur around the world at nearly the same time. If the heat of this explosion melts the ice caps and evaporate all the surface water, you may have the needed moisture source. As the atmosphere expands outward into space away from what is left of the Earth, at some point it should start to cool and maybe condense. The total expanding chunks of mass of what is left of the Earth may still combine to retain some form of gravitational pull towards where the Earth’s core was. If so, I think it is possible that any liquid that condenses may finally fall back toward the center of mass as liquid precipitation. I think we also have satisfied the needed ingredients of moisture, lift, and a trigger for possible rain. I think this rain will occur at least least briefly once after the expanding forces reach equilibrium with what may be left of the gravitational pull of the Earth debris. But for this precipitation to occur for 40 days and 40 nights, that may be really stretching the science of physics and meteorology a bit.

In any case maybe someone working for Noah or NOAA will know the answer.


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Answer 2

As long as the Earth is tilted on its axis; as long as the Earth orbits the Sun; and as long as the Earth revolves about its axis, the circulation of the atmosphere will remain the same. This means that it is absolutely impossible for it to rain over the whole planet at the same time for 40 microseconds let alone 40 days.

There have to be high and low pressure systems. Rising air in one place has to descend in another. Cloud does not form in descending air in highs and without cloud, you get no rain.

It would be very unusual, although theoretically possible for it to rain for forty days and nights in some tropical locations in a very active monsoon but even then I would expect a few breaks. No chance in temperate or polar regions.

Apart from the impossibility of forty days and nights of rainfall, where is all the water supposed to have come from? Let us allow for most of the water to well up from the ground and presume a rainfall rate of 50mm an hour - heavy but not exceptional. That gives us about 50metres of water from the clouds on every point on the Earth's surface over the forty days and nights.

That amount of water in the clouds would not have allowed any light to reach the surface. It would have been pitch plack and there would have been no life on the planet and no Noah to build an Ark..

The initial conditions for the flood therefore were impossible. It could not rain everywhere for forty days and nights and there could not have been enough water in the clouds for it to do so. Noah's flood is a myth.

Answer 3

Biblically - yes - the "great flood"
Evolutionarily - yes - the precipiation of the oceans

Today - no - not enough water vapour in the atmosphere - unless the whole planet cooled off suddenly a few degrees.

Answer 4

nicely, all of us recognize 40 2 is the respond to each and every thing, n'est ce pas? yet, in view that god did not opt for to provide away the secrets and techniques of the universe to mere adult males, he made 40-one an section holder and gave mankind 40. I agree...i imagine it truly is a few style of code. If there is a few thing in the bible that has piqued my interest, it is the repetitive use of the quantity 40. even as it represents a particular era of time, it continues to be very atypical. it style of feels even the Apologists have not arise with a concept yet. in view that all faith is in accordance with Astrology, i trust the importance is in the celebs.

Answer 5

Indeed it could rain that long. Scientists believe that is how much of our oceans was created when the earth was young. And as a scientist who believes in God I have come to an understanding that there are many things that God can bring about that human understanding will never comprehend.

Answer 6

It is written that God caused it to rain for 40 days and 40 nights. We need no further explanation than that.

Answer 7

Science always thinks it knows all until something new and unexplainable comes along. Lots of unexplainable and miraculous things happen every day. God, perhaps? I always wonder what the look on the laughing people's faces were when Noah warned them, and then the look when it started to rain.

Answer 8

God could cause that, and as a matter of fact, He already did once. But He promised He would never destroy the world that way again, hence the rainbow. He placed the rainbows there as a reminder of that promise.

Answer 9

duh, only God can make it ran for 40 days and 40 nights. he controls the weather in the first place

Answer 10

Where is Aquaman? we need you.