Weather-Related

There is considerable debate about whether it can rain oil.  Some oil industry officials claim it’s impossible because oil cannot bond to water, and therefore oil cannot be carried high up into the atmosphere to eventually fall as rain. 

But a report by the beleaguered and now-renamed MMS says that up to 75% of light crude oil can evaporate.  If oil can evaporate, then perhaps it can be carried up into the cloud as vapor, condense, and fall with water as rain.

It’s also been noted that oil which has been treated with certain chemical dispersants changes properties so that it does bond to water.  In which case, it seems possible that dispersant-treated oil could eventually fall as rain.

Regardless, this video and many others on YouTube claim to show it raining oil.  We may find out for sure with a new tropical storm building in the Gulf of Mexico.