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	What is Rain?
wiganfootie
10-12-2009 4:56 PM
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10-12-2009 7:20 PM
Antara
hehe, just like the eskimos have a ton o names fer snow, I think all of us living on the islands could match them with our different kinds of rain experiences!
10-13-2009 2:50 AM
mugofcoffee
very nice...
10-15-2009 12:48 AM
mcsmithblack
We have "toad stranglers" here in Appalachia.
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/a2321400-25a4-4dcc-8c82-8afc77fdc7a8/CBDA5171-07CB-4E70-893E-6882C65D8205/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A14281265" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A14281265" style="font-size: 11px;">www.bbc.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A14281265"><B>What is Rain?</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A14281265"><P>Rain. It's water from the sky. That's pretty amazing in itself really isn't it? But there's an awful lot to know about the stuff. Read on.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A14281265"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.bbc.co.uk/img/AB84D313-E201-4234-8D81-01FFAAEA70A9" alt="Rain clouds gathering over West London." /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A14281265"><P>Rain<A href="#footnote1" name="back1" title="Or more precisely what the boffins call precipitation." class="pos"><FONT size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="" class="pos"><SUP>1</SUP></FONT></A>, a type of <A href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A144253"  class=" pos">weather</A>, is droplets of water (chemically H<SUB>2</SUB>O) that form in the atmosphere from water vapour. When the vapour condenses it presents as clouds that, when weather conditions are right, deposit the water back to the <A href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A482933"  class=" pos">Earth</A> as raindrops. Rain makes things wet, and like any variety of <A href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A596450"  class=" pos">water</A>, is vital for the existence and survival of animal and plant life on the planet. Some other forms of precipitation include sleet, hail and snow.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A14281265"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><B>Spitting</B> - This is the rain that makes you think 'Oh, better get the <A href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A592625"  class=" pos">washing</A> in!' Or the rain that is precursor to a downpour (see below). Or the rain that never is - you feel a few specks, prepare for the inevitable and...nothing.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A14281265"><B>Drizzling</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A14281265"><B>Tiddling/Light</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A14281265"><B>Showering</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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