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The Environment / Re: How fast does your average rain drop...drop !!
« on: 22/06/2014 21:26:45 »
Not to be controversial, but I'm sitting on my back porch in Florida during a summer storm, and I've been trying to answer this question using my own methodology. This is a heavy storm (a "frog strangler," as we would say in these parts). The raindrops are falling through my field of vision, which I estimate to be 10 feet vertically, in a period of time I would estimate to be between a tenth and a fifth of a second. (As a percussionist and piano tuner, I'm pretty good at estimating small time quanta.) That yields speeds between 100 feet per second and 50 feet per second, or 66 MPH and 33 MPH, somewhat higher than the above solid numbers.