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Air can hold very little water vapor. The space under the lid of a bottle of canned tomatoes is filled with water vapor and the lid is held on by a very strong vacuum due to the very low vapor pressure. Sunshine passes through the earth's atmosphere unchanged and strikes the ground heating it. This provides enough energy to evaporate any moisture in the ground (and from the oceans and lakes). The water vapor rises into the sky and cools and condenses on dust particles forming fog (clouds). The fog gets thicker and colder and freezes making snowflakes that fall toward earth. When the snowflakes reach warmer elevations they melt making raindrops. This wets the land for the next cycle when the sun comes out again. Blame it all on the sun?
I bet you are quite young so I'll make this simple yet scientific as much as possible.
The sun's rays have energy. This energy heats up the water of rivers, lakes and other such water bodies. As a result, the water converts to vapour which is the gas form of water. There are millions of extremely small particles floating about in the atmosphere which human eyes can not see. The vapur, is very light and floats high up and cools down to become water again. It forms tiny drops of water which stick to the millions of floating little particles in air. A mass of such floating water drops is called clouds. When too many water drops accumulate in a cloud, they drop in the form of rain.
The sky gets emotional every once in a while.
you clearly flopped geography
to grow stuff
i heard a lil boy say once that it rains because 'the clouds are crying' so cute!
The Water Cycle!
Simply Put, the water vapour that we get from the earth that is evapourated from condenstion is gone up into the clouds and once those clouds become too heavy to hold that much water particles - it rains =)
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