why does the rain always come from the west?
490514
in localized area's rain may come in any direction.  But in reginal scale, rain generally comes from the west due to coriolis effect & the cold air coming down from higher lattitude.\n\nAlso, when cold & warm air are mixing, cold air catches up the warm air from behind in counter-clockwise rotation, which produces rain / storm.
162158
Yes, it's common for raindrops to collide after they start to fall. The more wind there is the more collisions are likely.
539095
The further North you are, the more northerly the path of the sun appears as the summer approaches. It would be "south of west" only if the earth was flat.
728543
From USA Today:\n\n"Q: Why does most of our weather come from the west if the Earth is rotating the opposite way?\n\nA: When looking down at the North Pole, the Earth spins counterclockwise around its axis. A point on the equator travels at about 1,100 mph, while a point directly at the poles does not move at all. An apparent force called the Coriolis force results from this difference in speeds, deflecting objects to the right in the Northern Hemisphere and to the left in the Southern Hemisphere. The Coriolis force, combined with solar heating patterns across the Earth, create distinctive wind patterns that drive weather systems.\n\nOne prevailing surface wind pattern that results is located in the mid-latitudes, between 30 and 60° North. Solar heating alone, without the Earth's rotation, would produce prevailing southerly winds. The Coriolis force, however, deflects these winds to the right, creating prevailing winds out of the west and southwest (the westerlies). \n\nSolar heating patterns in the tropics, from the equator to about 30° North, combined with the Coriolis force, produce weak prevailing winds out of the east (the easterlies). Southern regions of the USA, including Florida, are affected by the westerlies at times and the easterlies at others."\n\nHope this helps explain it. Check the first link for other weather questions and second link to see a full explanation of the consequences of rotation on weather.
1049239
That's because the Sun sets in the west...........\n\nOk! It rises in the east and sets in the west, because the Sun is stationary. But the earth rotates in a direction from west to the east. So you feel, that the Sun rises in the east.
718853
As much as I hate to contradict others, the East and West explanation is inaccurate. Hurricanes are in the Northern Hemisphere, while cyclones and typhoons are in the Southern Hemisphere. Another difference, which is caused by their location, is the direction in which they spin. The rotation of  the Earth causes hurricanes to spin counterclockwise, while cyclones go clockwise.
1167354
So the rain dosent get confused
416857
Aptly named because thunderstorms usually follow when the moisture reaches a certain level.  :)
311001
It does, tho not necessarily rain that's made of water. It could be acid rain or something like that.
399461
Sometimes its warm up in the atmosphere, but cold down here. So when it seems like it might snow, it comes out as a wet rain. Sometimes its caused by warm fronts and cold fronts and high pressure and cold pressure that come threw and change the weather.
25793
Because of the jet stream.  The jet stream flows west to east.  When a plane is flying east to west, the is more wind resistance on it.
186119
rain comes from clouds. clouds are actually water vapour floating in air. when they become really condensed due to a drop in temperature then they form large drop of water which cant stay afloat and so rain happens.
1149050
The predominant wind patterns are from the Ocean to land. The water is relatively cold off the shores of all California due to the Japan current. The energy to create storms that move inland are not there. Storms brought in from the East are often dissappated by the high mountain ranges along the California shore, in OC, as little as 10 miles away. The tremendous, fast uprise of wet air moving west dumps the water in the mountains and leaves little to effect the California shore. Due to the Gulf Stream in the Atlantic, East Coast storms are much more dangerous and prevalent. The Great Planes have storms generated by massive cold 'bubbles' of artic air hitting the moist air from the Gulf or Atlantic...California is not positioned to have these effects...we have Earthquakes and threat of Tsunamis instead.
397008
If you mean "the West Coast of the U.S.", then it's for two major reasons:\n\n1.)  Pacific hurricanes usually form at a low latitude, where they're separated from the latitudes of CA northward by a ridge of high pressure.  This prevents directs storm westward while preventing northward movement, especially during the height of the season.\n\n2.)  The waters off the West Coast all always far too cold to support hurricanes.
750556
While the question/answer below is about weather, the information is the same for just wind.\n\nQ: Why does most of our weather come from the west if the Earth is rotating the opposite way?\n\nA: When looking down at the North Pole, the Earth spins counterclockwise around its axis. A point on the equator travels at about 1,100 mph, while a point directly at the poles does not move at all. An apparent force called the Coriolis force results from this difference in speeds, deflecting objects to the right in the Northern Hemisphere and to the left in the Southern Hemisphere. The Coriolis force, combined with solar heating patterns across the Earth, create distinctive wind patterns that drive weather systems.\n\nOne prevailing surface wind pattern that results is located in the mid-latitudes, between 30 and 60° North. Solar heating alone, without the Earth's rotation, would produce prevailing southerly winds. The Coriolis force, however, deflects these winds to the right, creating prevailing winds out of the west and southwest (the westerlies). \n\nSolar heating patterns in the tropics, from the equator to about 30° North, combined with the Coriolis force, produce weak prevailing winds out of the east (the easterlies). Southern regions of the USA, including Florida, are affected by the westerlies at times and the easterlies at others."\n\nHope this helps explain it. Check the first link for other weather questions and second link to see a full explanation of the consequences of rotation on weather. \n\nSource(s):\nhttp://www.usatoday.com/weather/resource...\nhttp://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/...
392785
Because the polar jet stream flows across the country in the winter. In the summer, it flows more across Canada. The wet weather always follows the jet stream. Of course, if you live in California, the El Nino effect brings more storms over the state.
1182611
The only thing is, they don't always lie down when it is going to rain.  A lot of times you see them standing in a tight bunch right before it rains, too.  They almost always have their rear ends to the wind.  A lot of the "old timers" had ways of predicting the weather just by looking at natural things, guess this was just one of them.