[raverbashing]

I'm curious how places out there by the sea like Dubai are essentially a desert. Evaporation should be massive at those areas no?

[cryptonector]

Vegetation evaporates more water, faster, than the Sun shining on open water body surfaces.

I've seen a picture from directly overhead of the Amazon river where you can see clouds forming directly over treetops on either side of the river, but not the tiniest wisp of cloud over the river itself.