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Although this game is playable on PS5, some features available on PS4 may be absent.

35 GB

Quantic Dream later announced that a remaster of Heavy Rain would be released for PlayStation 4 on 1 March 2016 in North America via PlayStation Network, followed by physical versions on 2 March in Europe, Australia and New Zealand, and on 4 March in the United Kingdom.

You may be wondering what happened and how it was possible for rain to fall without clouds. Well, this is a real phenomenon and it even has a name. It is called a sunshower. A sunshower is an atmospheric phenomenon where rain falls even as the sun is shining with little or no cloud.

Jet streams are currents of air high above the Earth. They move eastward at altitudes of about 8 to 15 kilometers (5 to 9 miles). They form where large temperature differences exist in the atmosphere. Cooler, heavier air then pushes in to replace the warm air, forming a cool air current.

As a raindrop falls through the atmosphere, it can attract tens to hundreds of tiny aerosol particles to its surface before hitting the ground. The process by which droplets and aerosols attract is coagulation, a natural phenomenon that can act to clear the air of pollutants like soot, sulfates, and organic particles.

Rain really does reduce the amount of pollutant particles in the air, but not as much as we might have thought. Our senses might well be fine-grained enough to detect the rain-based particulate matter reductions. So the air feels cleaner after it rains because it is, really.

Researchers in Europe have found similar effects for rain showing rains limited effect on reducing air pollution and smoke.