Raindrops aren’t teardrop-shaped—they’re more like hamburger buns, shaped by surface tension and air resistance as they fall ...

Raindrops do tend to miss the back window, however. Wind passing over the rear of the car is accelerated on a downward angle, flowing parallel to and just above the rear window.

Raindrops do tend to miss the back window, however. Wind passing over the rear of the car is accelerated on a downward angle, flowing parallel to and just above the rear window.

In 1873, Scientific American ran eyewitness accounts of a frog rain in Kansas City, Missouri. It happened again, Barnett writes, in 1901, in Minnesota. There are ancient accounts, medieval ...