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                         WEATHER MAKER

Someone Googled, "Why don't hurricanes produce salt rainwater?"  There are many hurricane related keywords on this site and the question brought them to www.globalweathersolutions.com .  I fear the answer to their query was not found in the large amount of information on hurricanes and related subjects here so in the interest of full disclosure I humbly
submit this answer.

Rain is produced when liquid water on Earth's surface evaporates due to insolation (heat energy from the sun.)  The water may be any variety, fresh non-salty pond water, very salty seawater or even polluted water from some landfill.  Heat from the sun is absorbed by objects on earth (insolation.)  When heat is added to liquids their molecules move more rapidly.  You can see this when waiting for a pot of water to boil.   The molecules eventually gain enough energy to escape their weak molecular attraction to their mates in the volume of liquid water and in this case rise as steam.

 Caution do not watch the pot directly or it will never boil.
Gotcha!  Remember that old homily, "A watched pot never boils."  Surely you remember that.  Yes you do you just don't want to admit it, and please don't call me Shirley.

Enough of this drivel.  Steam rising from your non-watched pot is water vapor, a gas.  Remember water can exist as a solid (ice), liquid (water) or gas (water vapor.)  Water vapor consists only of H2O molecules.  Sun's heat energy does the same thing as the flame under the  boiling pot of water, but with less vigor to bodies of water on Earth.  When saltwater evaporates the salt and everything else in the water remains behind and only water molecules ascend into the atmosphere.

These water molecules are moving rapidly and rise above the earth's surface.  Temperature usually decreases with altitude, that is it gets colder the higher you go up into the atmosphere.  These water vapor molecules, individual H2Os begin to slow down as they rise, loosing energy, and eventually electric forces within allow them to reconnect to one another and form tiny droplets of pure water.  Eventually the droplets grow in size and fall as rain, consisting only of water molecules.  This rain may sweep up various things in the atmosphere on their way down like soot, and close to a breaking ocean wave perhaps even salt , but the process of rain production involves only H2O molecules. 

Salt can not exist as a gas, it is a solid and while heat makes their molecules of NaCl (sodium chloride) move faster they do not rise into the atmosphere.

And that's an answer to your question.  I'm sure there are those among you who could write a better explanation and I invite you to do so in the comment section following this article.

That's that for this.


                                   

                 FRANNIE THE WATCHFLAMINGO


                    ALWAYS WATCHING OUT FOR YOU 



                                  TAKE CARE, 


                                         JB