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 ...

MOLINE, Ill. — Since childhood, many of us have grown up wth the impression that raindrops have a teardrop appearance to them. Even our weather computer gives off this impression with a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...