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human
Is it possible to have saltwater rain?
gpt
Normally, no, since the process of evaporation will distill fairly pure water, and leave all solubles like salt behind.

I can imagine a scenario, though. If we start with a salt lake, which has not seen rain in quite a while. Very dry conditions. A windstorm would pick up a lot of dust, which would include salt, and disperse it in the air. Then if it rained immediately after, the water droplets would pick up some salt on the way down.

Kind of like if it's just been dry and dusty for a few days, and then a light rain comes along, it just makes everything dirty. That's water droplets picking up dust out of the air and just depositing it back on the ground.