Why Most Rain Never Reaches The Ground
Less than half of the rain that falls from a cloud makes it all the way to the ground – because a lot evaporates while falling or after landing in treetops.
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Show Notes
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:
- Virga: an observable shaft of precipitation falling from a cloud that evaporates before reaching the ground
- Rainfall interception: The fraction of rainfall that falls on leaves, branches and trunks of trees and evaporates before dripping to the ground.
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