Why does it rain sometimes when the sun is still shining?

Question

anyone know science well?

Answer 1

because the rain clouds do not always cover the entire sky, and when the sun peaks through that hole in the clouds it makes id sunny and rainy all at the same time which will ussually result in a rainbow

Answer 2

The sun always shines, always. Many things may happen between your eyes and the sunlight.
The whole Earth could be in between you and the sun (night), a moon could be in between (eclipse), an airplain, a hurricane, and sometimes as well a cloud.
Could be a small cloud, a big cloud, a rainy cloud or a contaminated cloud.

But if you are able to see directly the sun over you, and there's no cloud in between you two, and still you are getting raindrops on your head, then it may be that the rain in falling with an angle and the cloud should be somewhere near you.

Answer 3

Rain drops are the result of tiny little droplets of water vapour joining together to make larger drops of water. Even on the clearest of days there is still moisture in the air and on hot, humid days there's a lot of mositure - even if you can't see any clouds. As the water vapour rises it cools down and this forces the vapour to form into droplets of rain, when there's enough droplets we start to see clouds in the sky but sometimes these droplets fall to earth before there's enough of them to become visible as clouds.

Usually though, when we see sun and rain at the same time there will be clouds from which the rain is falling and breaks in the clouds through which the sun is shining. If the clouds are high up and there's a difference in the wind then the rain drops can be blown sideways on their way down so the cloud that's casuing it to rain might not be directly above you. It could be sunny overhead and the troublesome rain cloud could be a little way off.

Answer 4

Little black rainclouds can appear.
And if the cloud is not big enough to overcast the sky, the sun can still shine.
One time i poured down rain on me when I was driving, and the sun was shining. About a mile later I could look back on the cloud and easily see a bright rainbow. Fully saturated Rainbow too, not very faded.