- Rain can fall
at the speed of 22 miles per hour.
- The people
in Uganda experience a rain storm and thunderstorms 250 times a year.
- The biggest
amount of rain that fell in one day was 71.9 inches at La Reunion in France,
during the tropical cyclone ‘Denise’ on January 8, 1966.
- The place in
the world where it rains the most in Cherrapunji in India, where during the
year they get an average of 1041.7 inches, or 26,460 millimeters.
- Cumulonimbus
clouds and nimbostratus clouds are guaranteed to produce rain within 24 hours.
- Umbrellas
were first invented to protect people from the sun. The word itself comes from
the Latin ‘umbra’ meaning shadow, The first umbrellas appeared in China around
the 11th century BC.
- In the movie
‘Singing in the Rain,’ water was mixed with milk during the splashing in the
rain scene with Gene Kelly, this way the water will be more visible.
- Every
second, 16 million tons of water is evaporated from the surface of the earth.
And every second, 16 million tons of rain falls on the earth.
- The game of
Darts was invented because of rain. Once, during an archery competition, the
competitors were caught in a rainstorm. While waiting at a pub, they started
throwing smaller arrows towards a target on the wall. Hence the invention of
darts.
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