The size of the raindrops

Scientists at the University of Washington in Seattle, met with them to study clouds on two very different areas of the planet: the Brazilian Amazon and the Marshall Islands, a group of atolls and reefs in the Pacific Ocean. There, the raindrops are, on average, a diameter of 1 to 2 millimeters and a few measure up to 8 mm. These formations are not common, and therefore the interest of why they occur. Until now it was thought that, at least in practice, a drop of water would be divided to reach a large size. Según el equipo del profesor Peter Hobbs, las gotas encontradas en nubes cumulus congestus sobre la selva amazónica pueden haberse condensado con la complicidad de partículas provenientes del humo de grandes incendios forestales.

Another is the story of the Marshall Islands, where the air is clean, although weather conditions may lead to the formation of clouds with an unusually high level of water, distributed in a very short space. Hobbs said that some of these drops giant might even reach the surface without disintegrating. In this case, like all the drops with a diameter greater than 2 mm instead of presenting the typical teardrop shape, with a show of its sides rolled, taking the form of a jellyfish.