What is the Largest Raindrop Possible

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  • @2Burgers_1Pizza
    @2Burgers_1Pizza 5 днів тому +50

    Ain't the rain, but the golf-sized hail that gets you.

    • @anthonyperno1348
      @anthonyperno1348 5 днів тому +2

      I experienced golf ball size hail in South Florida in the early 80s.
      They were actually four or five marble size hail that froze/fused together into golf ball size.
      They dented the hood of my car, but the dent was the size and shape of one of the frozen marbles. I.e. it looked like someone threw a marble really hard at the car.
      But fused together, they were golf ball size hail when they fell.

    • @jeffdroog
      @jeffdroog 5 днів тому +2

      Actually,your mom is what gets me...Off lol

    • @Monody512
      @Monody512 4 дні тому +3

      "golf-sized"
      You've left this open to some fun reinterpretation.
      Golf *ball* sized? Golf *cart* sized? Golf *COURSE* sized!? :P

    • @jeffdroog
      @jeffdroog 4 дні тому +1

      @@Monody512 18 hole sized.

    • @CC-gg4oj
      @CC-gg4oj 4 дні тому +3

      Try cricket or baseball size (for you Americans).

  • @kineticdeath
    @kineticdeath 5 днів тому +14

    i've always enjoyed the mental visualisation of "today we're expecting 50mm of rain" in which the rain falls as a solid layer 50mm thick. Thats alot of water and it would cause alot of damage

    • @ethansloan
      @ethansloan 4 дні тому +1

      oh my god I've had the exact same image in my head!

    • @Shinzon23
      @Shinzon23 3 дні тому +1

      I bless the equivalent to a artillery strike rain coming down on my head

  • @DFSJR1203
    @DFSJR1203 5 днів тому +10

    Daven, great video on a topic rarely covered.

  • @ewrock7635
    @ewrock7635 5 днів тому +59

    Great, now I'll finally be able to sleep tonight after finally figuring out * checks notes * ...how big the biggest raindrop can be.

    • @TodayIFoundOut
      @TodayIFoundOut  5 днів тому +32

      Imagine if they could grow arbitrarily large. Would change a lot about our interactions with the world on rainy days... and architecture of our buildings, etc. :-) -Daven

    • @NunoBentoSound
      @NunoBentoSound 5 днів тому +2

      @@TodayIFoundOut you mean... BRUTAL BRUTALISM? The ultimate unexplored architectural wonder of cement blocks!

    • @some_haqr
      @some_haqr 5 днів тому +1

      ​@@TodayIFoundOutwould it really? :/
      Also quit the weed dude this is supposed to be science not the ponderings of a stoned student

    • @TitularHeroine
      @TitularHeroine 5 днів тому +7

      ​@@some_haqr These ponderings are sometimes what leads to the science. And yes, it would, really.

    • @MatthewTheWanderer
      @MatthewTheWanderer 4 дні тому +3

      @@some_haqr Yes, it would. Extremely large raindrops would actually be very dangerous. You need to learn to appreciate scientific ponderings and realize that smoking weed is a good thing.

  • @ILikeMyPrivacytbt
    @ILikeMyPrivacytbt 5 днів тому +8

    "Star Trek: Voyager" had a pilot episode where they found a planet without nucliogenic particles (because of alien technology) and it was all desert. I thought they made that up as some science nonsense to explain why a planet went from wet to water-less.
    I'm glad to know there actually is a reason why the planet is the way it is.

    • @MatthewTheWanderer
      @MatthewTheWanderer 4 дні тому +4

      Or shit, is that how Arrakis in Dune went from being a water planet to nothing but desert?

    • @robertcampomizzi7988
      @robertcampomizzi7988 4 дні тому +2

      My dad was Chem engineer. I remember arguing with him about the nucleotion needed for drops to form.
      I must have been frustrating 😂

  • @eliharper6616
    @eliharper6616 5 днів тому +9

    Feels like a throwback. I like it

  • @oops1952
    @oops1952 5 днів тому +3

    Very informative....thank you. Living near the mountains at over 3000 ft., we sometimes would get a heavy rain starting with just a few very large drops. They made quite the noise hitting hard surfaces. I was told these drops started as hail that melted before reaching the ground

  • @30yearsagonow
    @30yearsagonow 5 днів тому +10

    Imagine being in Brazil or the Marshall Islands and knowing there were raindrops the size of a penny falling above you

    • @MatthewTheWanderer
      @MatthewTheWanderer 4 дні тому +1

      Except literally no one knew about it at the time, and none of those extra big raindrops reached the ground that big.

  • @paulkurilecz4209
    @paulkurilecz4209 5 днів тому +3

    Fun Fact: Raindrops don't look like the traditional teardrop shape as they fall. They look more like the top half of a hamburger bun.
    The shape has a lot to do with air drag forces and the surface tension of the water droplet.

  • @bhgtree
    @bhgtree 5 днів тому +2

    How big the biggest raindrop can be, until a bigger one comes along and says _Hold my __-beer-__ Water_

  • @ConfusedRaccoon
    @ConfusedRaccoon 5 днів тому +2

    I always wondered how some rain can be big enough to come down as a proper blatter, but some comes down as drizzle.

  • @seanmorgan2356
    @seanmorgan2356 5 днів тому +11

    Whoa. A short one today.

    • @TodayIFoundOut
      @TodayIFoundOut  5 днів тому +11

      Ironic for a topic on how big something can get. :-) -Daven

    • @kims.schinkel8212
      @kims.schinkel8212 5 днів тому +3

      Brevity IS the soul of wit, after all!

    • @robfut9954
      @robfut9954 5 днів тому +1

      That’s what she said!

    • @martimlobao
      @martimlobao 4 дні тому

      @@TodayIFoundOut was the video truncated at the beginning?

    • @mr9512
      @mr9512 4 дні тому

      ​​@@martimlobaosounds like it.... also, weird to thank us for watching "all the way to the end" of a 4 minute video...

  • @martincowie4520
    @martincowie4520 4 дні тому +2

    Audio level on the video was too low... interesting though

  • @BruceBoyde
    @BruceBoyde 5 днів тому +2

    Being from Washington, I bet Daven loved looking into this. We should have more rain videos.

  • @crakkbone
    @crakkbone 5 днів тому +4

    The best host is back. Boo-yah. ❤❤

  • @tequilacollins
    @tequilacollins 5 днів тому +2

    You're assuming the jellyfish shape is caused by the downward pressure of the water against static wind. What about high winds and the drops are push by two different forces from different directions.
    Or a downpour, where the wind comes from above and helps push the raindrop down.
    Not proof, just hypothesis.

  • @RHCole
    @RHCole 5 днів тому +4

    A question I never knew I needed answered. Ok, Daven, educate me!

  • @WitchyHoneybee
    @WitchyHoneybee День тому

    Once, when I was a kid, a rain cloud passed over us on a beautiful summer day when I was playing outside. I remember that the drops were huge! So big they hurt when they hit you! Never seen anything like that again

  • @bendadestroyer
    @bendadestroyer 5 днів тому +2

    You overlooked the limitations of universal forces on the surface tension of the drops.

  • @SRW_
    @SRW_ 5 днів тому +1

    It's not the size that gets me. But they do keep falling on my head

  • @alexoblivion9295
    @alexoblivion9295 3 дні тому +1

    As predicted in the movie Bowfinger

  • @Iowa599
    @Iowa599 5 днів тому +1

    What is the terminal velucity & displacement of an 8cm drop?
    Rain could be lethal!

  • @thermjuice
    @thermjuice 5 днів тому +2

    This man terrifies me

  • @neglectoid
    @neglectoid 5 днів тому +2

    i'll use this info to bet which raindrop will hit the bottom of the windowsill,

  • @Istandby666
    @Istandby666 5 днів тому +1

    My biological father grew up in the Marshall Islands in the 60's.

  • @Ozzymandius1
    @Ozzymandius1 4 дні тому +1

    So we’re still misconstruing the illustration of a water droplet as wrong when it’s intended to depict water in the process of dripping from something but hasn’t detached from the object’s surface? Got ya. I feel like this factoid is a litmus test to help you know who has common sense and who dodges it at every chance.

  • @drmarquez146
    @drmarquez146 5 днів тому +2

    I have always wondered whats the smallest size of a flame and why

  • @owenleal
    @owenleal 5 днів тому +2

    "Hey Ferb, I know what we're gonna do today!"

  • @ericsmith6394
    @ericsmith6394 5 днів тому +1

    If drop size depends on fall speed vs air then how big could rain get on Mars if it had an Earth atmosphere?

  • @lemonlily4022
    @lemonlily4022 5 днів тому +1

    Short but sweet - I want to come back as a raindrop instead of a human! Sounds like a nice journey.

  • @terryenby2304
    @terryenby2304 5 днів тому +1

    That was interesting!!

  • @matteframe
    @matteframe 4 дні тому

    I can't stand the rain against my window
    Bringing back sweet memories

  • @chrishanson1738
    @chrishanson1738 5 днів тому +1

    This is way more fun than working

  • @CleoHarperReturns
    @CleoHarperReturns 2 дні тому

    So raindrops form similarly to a pearl. Cool.

  • @The1stDukeDroklar
    @The1stDukeDroklar 5 днів тому +1

    Ah, so that explains cloud seeding.

  • @V10R37
    @V10R37 5 днів тому +1

    I remember raindrops close to the size of a table tenis ball, with big distance between them, on 15/08/2014 while waiting for a concert to start. I foud the date by searching the band and the the event in my city. My memory is not that good. 😁

  • @JustinMurray170fin
    @JustinMurray170fin 5 днів тому +2

    Pity you didn't discuss raindrop speeds😕, but thanks regardless👍

    • @jeffdroog
      @jeffdroog 5 днів тому

      Raindrop speds? You're a little sped lol

    • @JustinMurray170fin
      @JustinMurray170fin 5 днів тому

      @@jeffdroog Amazon hand-held keyboard - fails to reg double keystrokes 😐

  • @patrick.gilmore
    @patrick.gilmore 5 днів тому +2

    If watching to the very end helps, why do you have 8 to 10 seconds of music at the end? Why don’t you say thank you for watching the end and then cut off?

    • @jeffdroog
      @jeffdroog 5 днів тому +2

      So you can watch more,for more watch time...Obviously lol

    • @TodayIFoundOut
      @TodayIFoundOut  5 днів тому +2

      It's supposed to have a recommendation for another video in that slot. :-) -Daven

  • @usonumabeach300
    @usonumabeach300 5 днів тому +1

    So if there were no dust or salt, etc, to become a nuclei, would the water vapor never condensate?

    • @jeffdroog
      @jeffdroog 5 днів тому

      Yeah...Did you not watch the video?

  • @AustralianLeprechaun
    @AustralianLeprechaun 3 дні тому

    Good to see someone asking the important questions 😂💧

  • @competitionglen
    @competitionglen 4 дні тому

    So now the rain can inflict me with more brain damage and wash me? Life sucks

  • @debbiemoore2747
    @debbiemoore2747 3 дні тому

    I may get hungry every time it rains now 😂🤷‍♀️ with raindrops being the shape of hamburger buns

  • @cynhiacations9879
    @cynhiacations9879 4 дні тому

    So when I say "big fat raindrops" it is really a thing. Who would have thought

  • @lauren9667
    @lauren9667 5 днів тому +4

    I enjoy the random facts you dig up (or drop on us😂) I’m sure the scientists were studying clouds and meteorological effects and this was just a small aspect of their research (this is meant for those who mock the science). I will now sound like the erudite at the next family function - unless my nephew - the meteorologist - is there. Thanks for the video!

  • @lukeharrop4620
    @lukeharrop4620 5 днів тому +3

    We can always rely on this channel to answer the questions that matter

  • @thegovermentstolemybaby7631
    @thegovermentstolemybaby7631 4 дні тому

    Who woke up and said "Im gonna measure raindrops today"?

  • @Mercnotforhire
    @Mercnotforhire 5 днів тому +9

    New semi-short form content from one of Simon’s channels? Hell yeah

    • @Hillbilly001
      @Hillbilly001 5 днів тому +4

      It's not Simon's channel. It's jointly owned with Daven. Get with the times.

    • @jeffdroog
      @jeffdroog 5 днів тому

      Well,not everything takes 30 minutes to explain lol

    • @Mercnotforhire
      @Mercnotforhire 5 днів тому

      @@Hillbilly001 Sorry, point to where I asked?

    • @Hillbilly001
      @Hillbilly001 5 днів тому +1

      @@Mercnotforhire I just stated that this channel is not Simon's exclusively. Didn't mean to come off harsh. If I did then you have my apologies. Cheers

  • @mingfanzhang4600
    @mingfanzhang4600 5 днів тому +2

    😊

  • @Demonic_Tang
    @Demonic_Tang 5 днів тому

    Okay but, how are they measured?

  • @AnnaAnna-uc2ff
    @AnnaAnna-uc2ff 5 днів тому

    thanks

  • @oak1550
    @oak1550 5 днів тому

    How big can a droplet get on Mars?

  • @PeterEdin
    @PeterEdin 5 днів тому +1

    I can hear Americans asking "What is a millimetre" 😉

  • @stancil83
    @stancil83 5 днів тому +1

    What about in a vacuum? I thought... In a vacuum, a water droplet can't grow significantly larger than a typical droplet due to rapid evaporation. As soon as the water is exposed to the vacuum, it evaporates quickly, meaning the maximum size would be extremely small, likely only a few nanometers in diameter, as the molecules escape into the vacuum. You can ask Google pretty much anything, and it'll give you an answer, but it's not as fun as watching your videos. 👍

    • @fewwiggle
      @fewwiggle 5 днів тому +3

      Probably depends on your definition of a vacuum. Any 'vacuum' (without a modifier, like "rough" or "low") worthy of the scientific sense of the word, would prevent any condensation of water.
      Look at the Phase Diagram for water -- essentially, liquid water is impossible below ~ 0.01 Atm (one hundredth of sea-level air pressure). That paltry level of vacuum was already achievable in the 1800s using vacuum pumps.

    • @stancil83
      @stancil83 5 днів тому +1

      ​@@fewwiggle Yeah, that's awesome. For some reason, I would still rather watch a video of someone explaining it to me, go figure.

  • @Jason-fm4my
    @Jason-fm4my 5 днів тому +1

    I figure it's mostly a question of margin of error in measuring equipment.

  • @bobbarker8732
    @bobbarker8732 4 дні тому

    Rain drop drop top , Cincinnati zoo made herambe heart stop

  • @fanboy8026
    @fanboy8026 5 днів тому +1

    💧

  • @Wrackey
    @Wrackey 5 днів тому

    "Watch till the end, helps with the youtube gods" .....16 second blue screen at the end 🤣

  • @jortor2932
    @jortor2932 5 днів тому +1

    The largest one is down here 🌚

  • @Crioten
    @Crioten 5 днів тому +3

    Raindrops just wish they could look like -starfishes.... Love you guys!!!!

  • @keithwalmsley1830
    @keithwalmsley1830 4 дні тому

    Good job they don't get that big, or we might never have had the song "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head"!! 🤣

  • @RondaOptional
    @RondaOptional 4 дні тому

    Voice so low but fun video!

  • @alanp6103
    @alanp6103 5 днів тому

    I wonder if I’m the only one who thought “Chubby Rain” from Bowfinger

  • @ShadowzGSD
    @ShadowzGSD 4 дні тому

    The thumbnail, That's what she said 🤣

  • @NickRgibbs
    @NickRgibbs 5 днів тому

    Mate I know it's your channel, but please just leave it to Simon to present the videos

  • @niccolom
    @niccolom 5 днів тому +1

    If you have a sore throat, it’s okay to delay the recording a few days.

  • @Baldevi
    @Baldevi 5 днів тому +1

    🌟

  • @nathanahubbard1975
    @nathanahubbard1975 5 днів тому

    But the US doesn't have a penny?

  • @am53n8
    @am53n8 5 днів тому +1

    Move over Simon Whistler, Daven Whisper is here! (audio might have been a bit quiet, or is it just me?)

  • @bensoncheung2801
    @bensoncheung2801 5 днів тому

    🌊🌊🌊

  • @Sargent-h2f
    @Sargent-h2f 5 днів тому +1

    Fun fact... The United States doesn't make pennies; our currency is made up of cents. That's why a dollar is made up of 100 cents and a quarter says 25 cents

    • @jeffdroog
      @jeffdroog 5 днів тому +2

      A cent,is also known as penny...Think,the Lincoln penny lol

    • @jeffdroog
      @jeffdroog 5 днів тому +2

      Canadian money says cents on it too,but we still call them pennies lol That's not a fact,just something you thought up.

    • @Wormpole
      @Wormpole 5 днів тому

      wut

  • @cameronjadewallace
    @cameronjadewallace 5 днів тому +1

    Lol, I love how the whole video all I heard was Science science ScIeNce SCIENCE! And you're absolutely right! Science....

  • @LightBlueVans
    @LightBlueVans 5 днів тому

    Chubby Rain … anyone? anyone?

  • @adamtran7427
    @adamtran7427 3 дні тому

    4x4

  • @Jiburley
    @Jiburley 4 дні тому

    ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

  • @Hillbilly001
    @Hillbilly001 5 днів тому +2

    Sounds like some of those scientists have just a little too much time on their hands.

    • @cameronjadewallace
      @cameronjadewallace 5 днів тому +1

      Why does the word science look so weird?! 😭

    • @Hillbilly001
      @Hillbilly001 5 днів тому +1

      @cameronjadewallace Don't know. Why? 😴

    • @cameronjadewallace
      @cameronjadewallace 5 днів тому

      @@Hillbilly001 I'm sure there's some etymology reason for it..... Or because they made a word that's as crazy as science is

    • @JELazarus
      @JELazarus 5 днів тому

      Beats sitting on a barstool, talking like a damn fool, with the 12 o'clock news blues. . I guess. . .

    • @Hillbilly001
      @Hillbilly001 5 днів тому +1

      @@JELazarus I reckon so. Ah well. They're probably Bud Light drinkers anyway.

  • @donnergid
    @donnergid 5 днів тому +1

    No Simon, buh bye.

  • @boglenight1551
    @boglenight1551 5 днів тому

    Huge raindrops do exist, we call them hail.

  • @Maxtyur
    @Maxtyur 4 дні тому

    Video started halfway into the opening sentence. Nice editing .Close the channel.

  • @ListenToPowerViolence
    @ListenToPowerViolence 5 днів тому

    Rain drops are proof that Jesus loves us

  • @oliviaspaulding9713
    @oliviaspaulding9713 5 днів тому +1

    Dang first comment?

    • @jeffdroog
      @jeffdroog 5 днів тому

      No.Bots got here first.

  • @Perry2186
    @Perry2186 5 днів тому

    wtf is a millimeter can we at leat git annotation od a real measurement

  • @ironcityblue
    @ironcityblue 5 днів тому +1

    lol the metric system