Why do snails appear when it rains?

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Many times I’ve seen snails appear in the garden, seemingly out of nowhere, during rain. What I don’t understand is where they come from – snails don’t move very fast, so the fact that they’re suddenly there – are they there the whole time, but only come out when it rains? If not, why are they drawn to this garden – surely it’s raining everywhere else as well. What about the rain causes them to appear? And how do they disappear again afterwards? You never see them moving in or out, like you can’t see them turned away and leaving at the end, or disappearing into whatever hole they came from. How do they appear so suddenly when they move so slowly? I just want someone to give me a simple explanation pls

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Imagine you lived somewhere that the ambient temperature was 200°f and it was a desert.

Now imagine it rained and that temp dropped to 85. And now is one of the only times you can eat and get water.

I’m pretty sure you would take that opportunity to go out, regardless of what predators may be there.

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