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How do you form rain?

Updated: 8/10/2023
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The clouds floating overhead contain water vapor and cloud droplets, which are small drops of condensed water. These droplets are way too small to fall as precipitation, but they are large enough to form visible clouds. Water is continually evaporating andcondensing in the sky. If you look closely at a cloud you can see some parts disappearing (evaporating) while other parts are growing (condensation). Most of the condensed water in clouds does not fall as precipitation because their fall speed is not large enough to overcome updrafts which support the clouds. For precipitation to happen, first tiny water droplets must condense on even tinier dust, salt, or smoke particles, which act as a nucleus. Water droplets may grow as a result of additional condensation of water vapor when the particles collide. If enough collisions occur to produce a droplet with a fall velocity which exceeds the cloud updraft speed, then it will fall out of the cloud as precipitation. This is not a trivial task since millions of cloud droplets are required to produce a single raindrop. A more efficient mechanism (known as the Bergeron-Findeisen process) for producing a precipitation-sized drop is through a process which leads to the rapid growth of ice crystals at the expense of the water vapor present in a cloud. These crystals may fall as snow, or melt and fall as rain.

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11y ago

Water evaporates from oceans and rivers and lakes, rises into the sky and form water droplets. As the water rises into the atmosphere, it cools and forms clouds. When enough water droplets collect in the cloud, the weight of the water droplets cause them to fall as rain.

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15y ago

rain is formed by water vapers that are lifted up by warm air . warm air is liter than cold air so the cold air is higher and when warm air water vapers and cold air mixes it forms a cloud when the cloud gets to heavy it drops the vapers and as they fall they goine together and form drops or rain.

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12y ago

Rain forms by the "Water Cycle". First, the sun evaporates the water from a lake, ocean, pond, stream, etc, and turns it into vapors. Next, the vapors condensate and turn into clouds, in what we call, condensation. Then, the water vapors fuse with other and get heavy; they then release the water in what we call, precipitation. Lastly, the water runs off the ground into a body of water, or it is soaking to the ground, which is Run Off/Ground Water. Then, the cycle repeats.

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13y ago

evaporation occurs from all water bodies i.e. water gets converted into water vapour. they rise up and form clouds. when water level in clouds exceeds saturation level then the water content in it comes down in the form of rain.

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First, sea water (oceans, lakes, rivers, etc.) evaporatesand forms into water vapor from the bodies of water on planet Earth and then they form clouds. This is called Condensation. Then, the clouds grow heavy and then begin to break apart. This is called Precipitation. Then the water droplets from the heavy clouds fall, they turn into RAIN WATER. This is the process of the Water Cycle.

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11y ago

rai drops are foarmed when the air rises at the dew point.

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condensation

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3y ago

They form from other little droplets in the cloud and when full they rain

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