Talk:Rain

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what about these rains of fish and frogs? what article would talk about them? - Omegatron 16:19, Oct 22, 2004 (UTC)

What an awesome page - this is one of my favs. Not least because of the beautiful photography of course, but the article is really top notch. I love rain. --?

What is the difference between "showers" and "rain" as reported by meterologists? I have heard that the former is intermittent and the latter is constant, but also that the former is caused by cumulus clouds and the latter by "strato?" clouds. Which is the true definition? --Mintie 28 June 2005 23:08 (UTC)

What speed does rain fall at?

All things fall roughly at 9 meters per second.

Is rain water usually potable? --TheSimkin 16:58, August 7, 2005 (UTC)

I think so, but I'm not sure...search around a bit :D —CliffHarris (-T|C-) 01:43, 19 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

How about artificial rain?

i've heard that sometimes clouds are "moved out" (on parade days, for example) to guarantee that there will be no rain.

On the other hand, i've also heard about "ordering" rain, to compensate in case of too much dust in the air. Thank you in advance for the response, JAUI (25 April 2006)

There are cloud seeding services available--you can pay light aircraft to spray silver iodide dust that (theoretically) can nucleate clouds and cause rain.

Cloud removal I haven't heard of. Clouds only seem to move in response to winds and temperature/pressure variations--possibly you could focus a lot of heat skyward to push them away, but that would be a LOT of heat. Possibly someone's been selling "rain removal services" ... but I'm not sure how scientifically based that is. Even the usefulness of cloud seeding--a semi-well studied technique--is still up in the air.JDowning 18:44, 25 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

why it rains mostly in the afternoon !

Where I live, there are frequent thunderstorms that occur during the day. But why does it occur mostly in the late afternoon (starting around 5-6pm)and then clears up.

I love rain, specially when it brings thunder. Falling asleep with heavy rain and thunder in the backround is awesome. Reminds me of "winter" in El Salvador :-) Guanaco152003 01:00, 31 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Removed from page for discussion

I've removed the recently added note:

The formation of rain droplets from vapour in the atmosphere can be modelled using simplified applications of Jamesworth Pilley's molar gas theorem, which also makes use of the notable chemists' constant.

as it is unsourced, and Google search returns a total of one hit on Jamesworth Pilley - and that is to another wiki article. - Vsmith 16:41, 12 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]