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 ...

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 ...

MISSOULA. Mont. — When we think of raindrops, the classic image of a teardrop may come to mind. Is this truth or a weather myth? Meteorologist Mitchel Coombs explains as he dives into the science of ...

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 ...

It’s probably not what you think it is. The actual shape of a raindrop is the result of two forces constantly acting on the drop and acting in opposition to each other: surface tension and air ...

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 ...

It may be hard to believe, but raindrops are not tear-shaped. In fact, a raindrop smaller than .08 inches remains in a sphere shape as it falls to the ground. When a larger drop falls, air pressure ...

GREENVILLE, N.C. (WITN) - With a more unsettled pattern likely to bring us some periods of rain over the coming days, I thought about the shape of raindrops and made that the topic of this weather ...