Why does rain fall in tiny droplets and not big plops?

Moment of Um

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Kids & Family, Education For Kids

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🗓️ 25 June 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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If you’ve ever been caught in the rain, it probably wasn’t a big deal, right? Lucky for us, rain typically falls from the sky in small droplets. Listener Joe was wondering why that is, so we reached out to Monique Robinson of Mississippi State University to help us find the answer.

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1:06.2	From the Brains Behind, Brains On, this is Moment of Um.
1:28.9	Answering those questions that make you go. Moment of Um, um, comes to you from APM Studios. I'm, I'm, I'm Sandin. Um. Oh, a little light rainfall during my recording. No big deal. I could just cover my equipment here and the top of my head might get a little wet, but no biggie Luckily, the rainfall today is light.
1:44.0	But what if instead of rain coming down in little droplets,
1:48.0	it came down in big plops, like a mug of coffee.
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