Rain is formed by the condensation of water vapour in the atmosphere. Warm air can hold more water vapour than cold air. As air rises it cools and so its ability to hold water in vapour form decreases. Eventually the temperature is reached when the air becomes saturated with water vapour and any further cooling will result in condensation taking place.
So now the vapour, which is an invisible gas, becomes water droplets and are seen as clouds. Vertical movement within the clouds causes the droplets to merge and grow. Eventually the weight of the droplets is too great for the air currents to support and gravity takes over. These droplets will then fall to the ground as rain.
2007-10-12 01:00:55
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answer #1
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answered by John H 2
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Rain comes from clouds.Clouds are formed as follows:-
Water enters the atmosphere by evaporation from water surfaces and by transpiration from the plants and trees.So atmosphere always contain some water in the form of an invisble gas called water vapour.When warm air containing this moisture rises,it expands and cools.Cool air cannot hold as much water vapour as warm air.So, some of the water vapour condenses on tiny pieces of dust(condensation nuclei) that are usually available in the atmosphere and forms a tiny water droplet .Millions of such droplets come together to form a visible cloud.
How precipitation occurs from clouds is given below:-
In warm clouds, the rain drops form from collisions and coalescence of the above mentioned tiny water drolets.The weight of the rain drops is more and so they fall as precipitation(rain).
In colder clouds,precipitation form by the collision of ice and super-cooled water or the deposition of water vapour on ice.
2007-10-12 13:30:36
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answered by Arasan 7
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Rain comes from the moisture in clouds. It is a cycle.
The oceans and trees evaporate water and it forms into clouds which then rains. The water from the rain goes into lakes and rivers or sucked up by trees. The lakes and rivers go into the ocean and the process repeats itself.
2007-10-12 07:52:22
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answered by Anonymous
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Rain doesn't really exsist. We're all trippin on acid vapors that have build up just before we see the so called "precipiatition".
2007-10-12 11:09:05
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answered by Jansen J 4
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the sky
2007-10-14 19:13:10
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answered by Will 5
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