• Question: Where does the rain come from

    Asked by anon-190693 to Matt on 7 Nov 2018.
    • Photo: Matt Bower

      Matt Bower answered on 7 Nov 2018:

      Clouds! Ha HA!
      Seriously, water gets evaporated by the sun and rises from lakes and oceans. As the water vapour rises it cools so that it stops being a gas (condenses) and forms tiny droplets of liquid water – a cloud! Within the cloud the droplets join together until they are too big and heavy to stay in the air – at which point they fall to Earth as rain (or snow)

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