RAIN

(See also Acid Rain; Climate; Clouds; Floods; Weather)

acid rain: g85 5/22 19; g84 5/22 29; g83 11/22 15-19; g79 9/22 4, 6-7; g74 8/8 31

effect on avalanches: g85 6/22 31

effect on church bells: g85 12/8 31

amount: w85 10/1 27; g75 1/22 29; g69 2/22 27; g68 11/22 15

each year: g81 11/8 27

Catholic prayers for: g81 6/22 30

clouds: g64 11/22 14-16; w62 294-295; g61 8/22 16-18; g54 8/8 19; g49 5/22 22-23

discussion: g73 7/8 6-7; ad 1368-1369

Elijah’s prayer: ns 145-146

evidence of Creator: g79 1/8 13

forests’ contribution: w85 10/1 27

long period without: g44 6/7 16

pollution’s effects: g72 3/8 29

rainmaking: g64 9/22 25; g64 11/22 16; g63 2/22 30; g61 6/8 5-7; g61 8/22 16-18; g54 5/22 15; g50 7/8 19; g49 2/22 23

as a weapon: g80 4/8 19

record: g74 7/8 25

rituals:

perperuna (“good rains”) ritual in ancient Greece: g85 5/22 20

symbolic: w79 8/15 6; ad 1369; fm 267-268; w41 317-318; rg 230-232; w39 247; w33 62, 295; pp 173, 332-334; w32 99-100

torrential:

California: g80 7/22 15

unknown before Flood: ad 1230; w64 54-55; ns 58, 60-61; w56 126-127

world’s rainiest spot: g85 3/8 23