The formation of rain depends upon several interesting processes of nature.

Moisture is constantly
being taken up from the earth’s surface. Especially from the evaporation. The moisture, called water
vapour, cannot be seen. It is mixed with the other gases in the air and is carried upward by the wind.

The moisture loaded air coals as it rises. This is because the air expands as it rises. Once the air
starts to rise it will continue to do so until its temperature as the same as that of the air surrounding
it. When the temperature is equalized, the upward movements of that mass of air is halted.

As air rises and cools, the amount of water vapour it can hold decreased. If the rising and cooling
continues long enough the air will become saturated. If the air is then cooled below that point, it is
said to have reaches the dew point. When air reached the dew point, some of the water vapour the
air contains condenses into tiny particles of water, so fine that they might be called water dust. This
water dust is known as clouds or fog, according to weather it is high in the air or near the surface of
the earth. A still greater cooling of the air will cause tiny cloud particles to unite into drops so large
and heavy that they fall.