RAIN CAUSING BACTERIA

During a cloudburst we often say that it’s raining “cats and dogs”. In reality, it’s actually raining bacteria; a natural phenomenon that presents no cause for alarm. The sky, once thought of as a sterile void, is actually teeming with bacteria, which are vital for watering the plants below. Biological precipitation, or the "bio-precipitation" cycle as it is called, starts when bacteria form colonies on the surface of plants. Winds will then sweep the bacteria into the atmosphere, and ice crystals form around them.

Bacteria like Pseudomonas syringae and other species found on the surface of plants leaf.

Introduction

The fact that bacteria like Pseudomonas syringae nucleate ice crystals has been known for decades. They can be used for gee-whiz science demonstrations, and, at a much larger scale, as one method for creating artificial snow. On the flip side, the presence of Pseudomonas syringae is also also makes plants more likely to be frost damaged at temperatures just below freezing. Only in the last several years, though, has the role of bacteria in producing precipitation from the atmosphere begun to be appreciated.

RAIN FORMATION PROCESS

During evaporation these bacteria goes from the surface of plant’s leafs and reach to the Atmosphere. In atmosphere there are different levels of cloud on witch ice crystalFormation starts.In the cirrus level of cloud they need some support or base to begin the ice crystal formation. The base may be Dust particle Dust particle comes from outside the earth Bacteria

SNOW FORMATION PROCESS

Dust and soot particles can serve as ice nuclei, but biological ice nuclei are capable of catalysing freezing at much warmer temperatures. The ice-nucleating bacteria currently known are mostly plant pathogens. These pathogens can cause freezing injury in plants.

The bacteria are found in snow, soils and seedlings in locations such as Antarctica, the Yukon Territory of Canada and the French Alps, according to Brent Christner, a microbiologist at Louisiana State University.

According to this finding plants are also responsible for causing rain.

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