Saturday 3 March 2012

DandAD//DESIGN IS ABOUT DOING//INITIAL RESEARCH OUGD406

RAIN: GOOD THINGS ABOUT RAIN:
various lists and opinions on peoples views about rain

1. Free car washes every day.
2. If you dig a big hole in your backyard, you can get a free swimming pool.
3. We will not have a drought anytime soon.
4. You have less of a risk of getting skin cancer.
5. If you are ever thirsty, just stick out your tongue (free refills, too).
6. Gives you more opportunities to go see that movie that you’ve wanted to see and buy those clothes or shoes that you’ve been eyeing.
7. No need to water grass or garden.
8. Save money on electricity such as air conditioning and fans.
9. Pale is the new tan — your pale skin will bring out the color of your clothes, hair and eyes.
10. It makes you appreciate the sunny days that we get and makes them more enjoyable!

Carolyn Roche is an 11-year-old North Andover resident and optimist.
http://www.wickedlocal.com/northandover/news/lifestyle/columnists/x1558728183/Sitting-In-The-top-10-reasons-why-rain-is-good#


1. Cleans the dust and grime off your car, saving you a car wash
2. Makes the lawn green
3. Nice and soothing to listen to as you fall asleep
4. Keeps wells from going dry
5. Makes it easier to get things done inside, no lusting for outside time
6. Puts out forest fires
7. You can wear red rubber boots
8. Gives water to wildlife
9. Waters crops
10. Great day to see movies or hang in a cafe or bookstore
11. Cools the air if it is warm
12. Fun to stick out your tongue and catch some drops
13. You get to open your umbrella
14. Less risk of skin cancer
15. Give us puddles to jump in
16. "Singing in the Rain" would not exist.
17. Really makes you appreciate the sunshine when it arrives

http://aliceinparislovesartandtea.blogspot.com/2011/05/17-reasons-why-rain-is-good-thing.html


REASONS WHY I THINK RAIN IS GOOD:
-ITS CALMING -ITS FRESH -ITS NATURAL -ITS SOOTHING/RELAXING -THE SOUND IS CALMING -WATERS PLANTS -INSPIRATION FOR SONGS -ITS GOOD WHEN YOUR INSIDE -IT CAN BE GOOD WHEN YOUR OUTSIDE -IT CAN LOOK NICE -ITS PURE


RAIN QUOTES:
There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.
-Don Delillo

There are times of great beauty on a coffee farm. When the plantation flowered in the beginning of the rains, it was a radiant sight, like a cloud of chalk, in the mist of the drizzling rain.
-Karen Blixen
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. 
-Rabindranath Tagore 

Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life. 
-John Updike



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.infobarrel.com/10_Facts_about_Rain






WHAT IS RAIN?
Rain is liquid precipitation, as opposed to non-liquid kinds of precipitation such as snow, hail and sleet. Rain requires the presence of a thick layer of the atmosphere to have temperatures above the melting point of water near and above the Earth's surface. On Earth, it is the condensation of atmospheric water vapor into drops of water heavy enough to fall, often making it to the surface. Two processes, possibly acting together, can lead to air becoming saturated leading to rainfall: cooling the air or adding water vapor to the air. Virga is precipitation that begins falling to the earth but evaporates before reaching the surface; it is one of the ways air can become saturated. Precipitation forms via collision with other rain drops or ice crystals within a cloud. Large rain drops are oblate-shaped and small drops are spherical. Moisture moving along three-dimensional zones of temperature and moisture contrasts known as weather fronts is the major method of rain production. If enough moisture and upward motion is present, precipitation falls from convective clouds (those with strong upward vertical motion) such ascumulonimbus (thunderstorms) which can organize into narrow rain bands.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rain

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