Design is about doing : Facts

http://www.infobarrel.com/10_Facts_about_Rain

1. The umbrella was originally invented to protect people from the hot sun.

2. Rain drops can fall at speeds of about 22 miles an hour.

3. Rain starts off as ice or snow crystals at cloud level.

4. Light rain is classified as being no more then 0.10 inchese of rain an hour.

5. Heavy rain is classified as being more then 0.30 inches of rain an hour.

6. Louisiana is the wettest state in the U.S, which receoved an annual rainfall of 56 inches.

7. Rain drops range in size from 0.02 inches to about .031 inches.

8. Rain drops do not fall in a tear drop shape, they originally fall in the shave of a flat oval.

9. Rain that freezes before it hits the ground is known as frozen rain.

10. Rain is recycled water that evaporated from our worlds lakes, rivers, oceans, seas etc.

http://www.uk2.net/blog/interesting-facts-about-uk-weather-uk-rain/

Did you know….

Drops of rain with a diameter of less than half a millimetre are know as drizzle

There are three types of rain:

Orographic
Frontal
Convective (known as showers)

The most rain ever recorded in one day in the UK was 279.4 millimetres in Martinstown Dorset 18th July 1955

One inch of rain falling over an area of one acre has a weight of about one ton

On average it rains one in three days in the UK

The roof of a typical family home captures over 100,000 litres of rainwater a year

check back for my next post Facts about UK Sunshine!

http://www.factaday.co.uk/science.html

UK rainfallThe wettest place in the UK is not Manchester - which comes third but is actually Belfast with average annual rainfall of 978mm, Glasgow is second with 931mm and then Manchester with a mere 873mm.

The wettest place in Europe though is Bergen in Norway with over 2,000mm! (Fact for 26 Aug 2008)