During a drought, where does the water evaporated from lakes and rivers go? If it just went into the atmosphere you’d expect that to then quickly get saturated and start raining.

Question

During a drought, where does the water evaporated from lakes and rivers go? If it just went into the atmosphere you’d expect that to then quickly get saturated and start raining.

In: Earth Science

Answer 1

It in part is evaporated into the atmosphere, which is then blown away and mixed in with all the other water evaporating, only in places like rainforests does the evaporated water fall back as rain in the same approximate location. In other locations it is depended upon positions of mountain ranges and prevailing winds etc. which determines where the rain falls.