• Question: why do we get rain?

    Asked by josua2k to Austin, Kirsty, Nicola, Nike, Sarah on 15 Jun 2012. This question was also asked by juicylucy, toad9.
    • Photo: Austin Elliott

      Austin Elliott answered on 15 Jun 2012:

      So that us people in Manchester will have something to complain, I mean talk, about…!

    • Photo: Kirsty Ross

      Kirsty Ross answered on 19 Jun 2012:

      Rain is water that has condensed in clouds from water vapour and then becomes heavy enough to fall under it’s own weight. We get quite a lot in Glasgow! It is part of the water cycle, where water evaporates from the sea, forms clouds, falls as rain onto land, runs into rivers and then back to the sea. Some places on earth never get any rain or precipitation at all. The driest place on earth is actually the Acatama Desert in Chile.

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