Rain Day 2022
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Rain is moisture condensed from the atmosphere which falls visibly in separate drops.
It is a large part of an essential process called "the water cycle" by which water circulates between the earth's oceans, atmosphere, and land.
It involves precipitation as rain and snow, drainage in streams and rivers, and return to the atmosphere via evaporation and transpiration of water vapor through the stomata of plants.
Today is rain day.
The observance originates in the late 1800s a pharmacist named William Allison who once remarkedf that it always seemed to rain on the 29th of July in his location of Waynesburg, Pennsylvania.
It seems that the subsequent records of rainfall on the specific date kept by others resulted in the evolution of Rain Day because people eventually started posting stories in newspapers and calling to see if it was actually raining on subsquent July 29ths.
So in conjuction the importance of rain to life and the planet I pursue it because I like to walk in and experience the rain. I think it's a persistent attraction from my childhood.