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by londons_explore 213 days ago
Less rain than you'd imagine falls on the oceans, due to the land having varying elevation and temperature, whilst the oceans have far more constant elevation and temperature so the conditions needed for rain happen less.
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That's just...wrong.

"78% of global precipitation occurs over the ocean" [1]

[1] https://gpm.nasa.gov/education/articles/nasa-earth-science-w...