Rain & Showers
Earlier today, Phillip the Weather anorak wrote, “I’ve tried to point out the difference between rain and showers.” Since he didn’t go into the details here’s what he might have said.
Shower
- Comes from convective cloud
- Sudden start and stop
- Rapid changes in intensity
- Quickly differing sky
- Bigger water particles aka drops than other forms of precipitation.
Rain
-Droplets grater than .5 mm.
-Different terms including light(0 to .10 inch per hour) to heavy (over .3 inches per hour)
-Falls in relatively straight, although not completely vertical paths.
I will add that if the drops are less than .5 mm and fall in an irregular path than you have drizzle and not rain.
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