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

Moment Of Um

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🗓️ 25 June 2024

⏱️ 4 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. Got a Moment of Um question that’s raining on your parade? Send it to us at BrainsOn.org/contact, and we’ll help weather the storm. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	From the brains behind Brains On, this is Moment of Um.
0:05.4	Answering those questions that make you go...
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0:20.2	Moment of Um um comes to you from APM Studios. I'm Sand and Totten.
0:29.8	Oop, 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.
0:39.2	Luckily, the rainfall today is light.
0:41.6	But what if instead of rain coming down in little droplets, it came down in big plops, like a mug of coffee?
0:49.3	Or a bucket being poured over my head.
0:52.7	Or an entire sheet of water just falls down on the earth in one
0:56.6	giant move. Joe gets what I mean. Hi, my name is Joe from New York, and my question is, why does
1:07.4	rain fall in tiny droplets and not big blobs?
1:13.7	Hello, my name is Monique Robinson.
1:16.6	I am currently a master student at Mississippi State University, working towards obtaining my
1:22.0	master's in applied meteorology.
1:23.7	I previously worked as an on-air meteorologist in Wilmington, North Carolina.
1:29.3	The biggest sort of misconception that a lot of people have is that this cloud is one big kind of river of water that's lifted up in the sky.
1:36.3	But actually clouds are made up of several small, tiny water droplets.
1:41.3	There are certain ways that cloud droplets grow. They always sort of start
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