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sky's way of returning everything the ocean lent it, with interest
means Water that condenses in the atmosphere and falls to the ground in drops.
from From Old English 'regn,' a word with deep Germanic roots — a cousin of Dutch 'regen' and German 'Regen.' All of them likely trace back to a Proto-Germanic '*regna-,' which is why the rain in three languages still sounds like the same weather. The word has stayed remarkably unchanged for over a thousand years, perhaps because the thing it names never went out of style.
- smell
- that fresh scent is bacteria-made petrichor and geosmin
- shape
- drops fall as flattened buns, not teardrops
- speed
- large drops hit around 20 miles per hour
- diamond rain
- on Neptune and Uranus it literally rains diamonds
monsoon season india — annual rainfall pattern bringing 80% of india's water from june to september
cherrapunji meghalaya — world's wettest place, receives 450 inches annually in northeast india
atacama desert — driest place on earth, some areas went 400+ years without measurable rain