Children ask a lot of questions. The weather provides endless opportunities for them. Here are simple, child-friendly answers to the most common questions.
"Clouds are like giant cotton balls in the sky. They are made of millions of tiny water droplets that are so light they can float."
"When the little water droplets in the cloud bump into each other and get bigger and heavier, they can't float anymore. Then they fall to the earth as rain."
"Wind is just air that is moving. You can't see it, but you can feel it on your skin and see it making the leaves on the trees dance."
"The sunlight looks white, but it's actually made of all the colors of the rainbow. When the light hits our earth, the blue light gets scattered in all directions, like spreading blue paint in a glass of water. That's why the sky looks blue to us."
"A rainbow appears when the sun shines after it has been raining. The sunbeams shine through the tiny raindrops in the air, and the drops split the white light into all its colors—just like a little glass prism."