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Posted: 09 Aug 2022

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A Rare Phenomenon

A Rare Phenomenon
The marks on the water are caused by a very rare occurrence called rainfall. Here is a short explanation for those of you who don't understand the concept of rain.

Rain is liquid precipitation: water falling from the sky. Raindrops fall to Earth when clouds become saturated, or filled, with water droplets. Millions of water droplets bump into each other as they gather in a cloud. When a small water droplet bumps into a bigger one, it condenses, or combines, with the larger one. As this continues to happen, the droplet gets heavier and heavier. When the water droplet becomes too heavy to continue floating around in the cloud, it falls to the ground.

In this case it lasted for about 10 minutes and the phenomenon has not been seen since.

Nouchetdu38, Walter 7.8.1956, Annaig56, Marco F. Delminho and 21 other people have particularly liked this photo

15 comments - The latest ones
 Guydel
Guydel club
J'ai vu ça deux ou trois fois dans ma vie (j'ai 75 ans) et je ne connaissais pas bien le principe ... merci pour ces lumineuses explications !!! *****
Amitiés ! J'adore cet humour !
2 years ago.
 natureoncam aka Greg
natureoncam aka Greg club
Well it is now early August still dry and we are heading for a heatwave and then apparently liquid precipitation as you so eloquently explain, just as I go away. Which is pretty typical for me!
2 years ago.
 tiabunna
tiabunna club
A lovely image of this old motorboat and this meteorological phenomena that is so uncommon in your part of the world at present - it seems it's moved down this way recently!
2 years ago.
 Nick Weall
Nick Weall club
It will never catch on ~~~ Are you sure ?
2 years ago.
 Keith Burton
Keith Burton club
You're not fooling me with this obviously outlandish story - pull the other one Amelia :-)))

Seriously though, this is a lovely photo........I love the lines of that beautiful old wooden motor boat (and it's distorted reflection) and that looks like another interesting boat on the left. I like the lovely greenery as well and the wild flowers on the bank side.

So.......those marks on the water.......what are they really?
2 years ago. Edited 2 years ago.
Amelia club has replied to Keith Burton club
Pond skaters. :-)))
2 years ago.
Keith Burton club has replied to Amelia club
Obviously :-))))
2 years ago.
 Ulrich John
Ulrich John club
:-))) !
2 years ago.
 Stephan Fey
Stephan Fey club
Excellent description! :-))
2 years ago.
 Loose_Grip/Pete
Loose_Grip/Pete club
Ha3!
2 years ago.
 Boarischa Krautmo
Boarischa Krautmo club
thank you for your explanation - I couldn't explain it to myself.

Times are a´changing ;-)
when I was at school (long time ago) our English teacher showed us some letters to the editor (I can't remember, perhaps The Times) re a rare astronomical phenomenon, a yellow ball seen for some minutes between the clouds....
2 years ago.
Amelia club has replied to Boarischa Krautmo club
Your astronomical occurrence is no longer a phenomenon. The yellow ball seems to be a daily sighting these days. Of course we may be being fooled by extra terrestrial life forms. One just never knows .....
2 years ago.
 Gillian Everett
Gillian Everett club
Hope it comes back again. Lovely view on the Norfolk Broads
2 years ago.
 TOZ
TOZ club
A beautiful Image Amelia I didn't know it was a phenomenon.
Have a good day.
TOZ
2 years ago.
 Andy Rodker
Andy Rodker club
Very droll! We are desparately short of rain here in Spain. Water rationing looks likely to start soon. :o(
2 years ago.

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