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Old September 2nd 05, 09:54 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
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This is not all about the "measures" of rain. For instance, in the
atmospheric layers where it starts to rain, the temperature may fall as
low as 400 C below zero. Despite this, rain drops never turn into ice
particles. (This would certainly mean a fatal threat to the living
things on the earth.) The reason is that the water in the atmosphere is
pure water. As is well-known, pure water hardly freezes even at very
low temperatures.


400C below zero??

LOL!

I don't even have to read through the rest of this post to know that
it must be complete rubbish given this level of scientific understanding.


To be fair that "400" looks like it might be a typo for "40". But to say
that "rain drops never turn into ice particles", or that if they did it
would somehow be a terrible thing, is of course nonsense.
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