Thursday, May 10, 2012

Why rain drops fall

This mornings Today programme carried an item which made me wish I was young again.

About a project which involves flying through storms to find out exactly why it rains the way it does these days.

Of course if I were my own young self again I would not know just how interesting a subject this would be, nor that I could learn actually to enjoy flying, even to feel exhilarated by bumpy weather.
 
"It's because of a long chain of things that have to happen from the large scale of big weather systems you see on satellite images down to the fronts we're looking at today, and all the way down to the formation of raindrops. There's a long chain of processes in that and the details are quite subtle."
Professor Geraint Evans
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