When we say. "it's raining" or "it's hot", what exactly is "it"? What is raining, amirite?

+252 When we say. "it's raining" or "it's hot", what exactly is "it"? What is raining, amirite?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

"How's the weather" "It's raining" "Ah, the weather's raining. I see." Now you know.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

No. The weather itself cannot rain. The status of the weather, or weather condition is that it is raining

by Anonymous 13 years ago

How else would you say it then? Just saying "Rain is falling from the sky" sounds just... wrong.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I've always said "crystalized water droplets are detaching from their parent clouds and liquifying as they descend toward the Earth at a costant velocity".

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Oh my goodness, I have wondered this for years!

by Anonymous 13 years ago

The sky!??

by Anonymous 13 years ago

the weather

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It's raining outside. It's hot outside. You just drop the word "outside". That's all.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Do you not realize that you have a completely unneccesary period?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I do now

by Anonymous 13 years ago

i hope that you aren't actually wondering this...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

The sky? The clouds? It would just sound weird if someone said "The clouds are raining", because raining isn't something everything does.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It's = it is. Its = the possessive version of it. As in talking about a cats toy, 'oh that's its toy.' Because, 'oh that's it's toy' sounds dumb because you don't mean to say 'oh that's it is toy.'

by Anonymous 13 years ago