The raindrops that patter onto roofs, sidewalks and umbrellas during a shower or storm fall in a wide range of sizes, as anyone who pays attention can see. The explanation for this variety turns out ...

Growing up as kids, when we were asked to draw a rain drop we think of that classic tear drop shape. We never wondered how accurate that actually was. Raindrops are in fact not tear drop shaped. When ...

Close your eyes and think about the shape of a raindrop. You probably think of the teardrop shape don't you? Well sadly, everything we learned growing up about the shape of a raindrop is false. It ...

FARGO — You may think you know what a raindrop looks like but it is not the traditional teardrop shape that often comes to mind. The movie Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs may have been onto ...

Way up high in the atmosphere, dust and smoke particles suspended in clouds create places where moisture can settle and form into drops. The drops sitting up here are like little globes of water, ...

If someone asked you to draw a rain shower, you’d probably illustrate a puffy cloud with a handful of tear-shaped drops falling to the ground. That is how rain is popularly depicted, after all. But if ...

Raindrops are shaped like teardrops, right? Wrong! Let's discover rain's true shape. What do raindrops look like? Exactly how we drew them as kids, right? Wrong! Teardrop-shaped rain is physically ...

Take a look at depictions of raindrops in movies, artwork, and coloring books - from spheres of water to tear drop shapes, renditions of rain vary quite a bit! Though we can't tell with our naked eyes ...

Everyone knows that a raindrop is shaped like a teardrop, right? Well, not so fast. While a teardrop is used to depict a raindrop in most instances, an actual raindrop is round when small. Raindrops ...

A: The typical speed of a falling raindrop depends on the size of the drop. Gravity pulls everything downward. As an object falls, it experiences a frictional drag that counters the downward force of ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. The typical speed of a falling raindrop depends on the size of the drop. A large raindrop, about the size of a house fly, has ...