One lesson I bet we can all remember from grade school is the water cycle. Even if you don't recall precisely what you'd learned, you probably have memories of some sort of video or diagram that was so colorful and creative it made the day feel a little more fun. For some of us (myself included) it's honestly hard to forget. Even in the adult world, it feels neat and simple to think about the three water-cycle components which, pun intended, rinse and repeat: Evaporation, condensation, and precipitation.
Our planet could not survive without water, a substance that makes up 71% of our world's entire surface with its oceans holding roughly 97% of this figure. That being said, however, the process can get quite complicated when you mix in the continuously changing climate, driven by human activity like burning coal, as well as other daily impacts we contribute as a society. As a weather forecaster myself, I know the challenges we face when it comes to predicting water-based natural disasters including flooding, landslides and droughts.
