with that question answered, why is it that when rain falls from unmeasurable distances out of the sky, it doesnt turn you into swiss cheese (figuratively speaking) or at least leave some nasty bruises...
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It depends on the object.  Tests with coins have measured velocities too low to cause signifcant damage to the average human head.\n\nTerminal velocity, in this case the maximum speed a falling object will reach, depends on the shape of the object, the accelleration, and the qualities of the atmosphere.\n\nWhen an object is dropped near earth, it accellerates towards the earth at about 32 ft/sec/sec.  It goes faster and faster until the frictional drag from the air, has a slowing effect equal to the speeding effect from gravity.  From that point on it will stay approximately the same speed.  A feather has a very low terminal velocity.  A crowbar has a much higher one.  Its all about friction in air.\n\nA penny dropped near a planet without an atmosphere would accellerate toward the planet, getting faster and faster until it hit.  This scenario could be deadly for the space-suited person in the way.\n\nWater falling has an additional complication in that the air drag changes the shape of the water droplet and that in turn affect the drag.  A water droplet's changing shape on impact also affects the damage it might do a person.
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This is complicated! I am not good at this but just think:\neven the angle of the rain drop is too complicated! It can be affected by the speed of the wind, the size of the droplet, the altitude (maybe?), etc., etc.\nNow if the glass is full of dirt that will hold the droplets, or the glass is coated with something slippery, then the speed will be affected, too.\nIf the air is so polluted, the rain is acid, then ... \nAnd there could be more factors....
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It means, if you look at billions of days with weather conditions just like this day, 20% of them would be days with rain.\n\nI'm not a pro.\n\nBTW, when they give people stats and predictions, wherein it rained 40 out of a hundred times that the weather person said there was a 40% chance of rain, people tend to think the weather person was a lousy predictor.\n\nEven though the stats suggest they were a perfect predictor.\n\nFolks just don't understand this stuff, do they?
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Because it receives the largest amount of rainfall due to the fact that its near the coast. Also, being near the coast allows for the soil to be more fertile, making it more productive for farming.
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Sometimes its warm up in the atmosphere, but cold down here. So when it seems like it might snow, it comes out as a wet rain. Sometimes its caused by warm fronts and cold fronts and high pressure and cold pressure that come threw and change the weather.
660449
I live in Kansas and have been thru 6 really bad ones, and many warnings that were uneventful when it comes to the funnels themselves...The sky turns dark..hail occurs and heavy rains then a sudden calm happens just before the funnel touches down to the ground..It does sound loud like a freight train but I just say its a tornado sound now..Debris flies thru the air as well..Once saw a cow lifted and thrown onto a farm building roof..amazing but scary!Not something I like to live thru but have...
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how were you supposed to know the tree was gonna kick? I bet it looked pretty sturdy. You usually can't predict when one will fall over, especially in a bad storm. But really, it's no body's fault. Don't get this guy all riled up because of an act of nature. The tree may have been on his property, but there was no way either of you could have prevented it.\nIt's for these kind of events that home and car insurance are an asset. He may have been a total a$$hole, but he's right. Your insurance needs to cover it.
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I'm on the Atlantic coast of Canada.  We seem to have the same problem.  I live on an island and I too am wondering if I'll ever be able to go out without an umbrella for an afternoon.  At least we aren't getting hit like some of you poor folks down on the Eastern seabord of the States.
197619
Since the prehistoric era. It doesnt take a genius to observe the correlation between rain and clouds. It doesnt rain when there are no clouds. Clouds disappear after a rain.
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To me, it just means that it's as normal as rain is.  After all - think how bad things would be if you DIDN'T have rain!
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well a fall could do it.... i burised my knee badly when my bike went out from under me. It hurt but it wasnt too bad.\n\nBut please dont hurt yourself
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I injured my knee in a White Zombie concert years ago when the crowd rushed the stage and it took 3 security guys to get me out.As they were lifting me over the barricade, the crowd rushed the stage again and 1 of them slipped and dropped me, and all my weight came down on my knee that hit the metal barricade.Yeah, it hurt like hell, and I was on crutches for a bit.But ever since, my knee starts bothering me when it gets rainy.I asked my doc about it and he said it's because the calcification of healed fracture expands during humidity.Or something along the lines of that like that.
505666
Just a silly way to answer.\n\nIf it is Saturday, it is Saturday, but if it rains, then it is a rainy day.
627894
NO,that's absurd...and I suppose hurricanes,floods,earthquakes,\ntornadoes,mudslides,blizzards,\netc.does not happen here in America!!!!!?\nPerhaps you think that all our(in America) natural disasters(year after year) was/is an act of satan!!!!?\nNot to mention,we have the most crime in the whole world!!!Where is GOD now?\nI sense a little more when reading between the lines of this idiotic question!!\nBIGOTRY perhaps!!!?
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I will be damned if I know, lol, but, I am about to- but hope to never need to use one:)\n\nParachutes work because of something called ‘air resistance.’ If there were no air resistance, then gravity would cause everything to fall at the same rate, so no matter what item you dropped (i.e. a feather or a rock), it would hit the ground at exactly the same time (assuming you dropped it from the same height). But air resistance complicates things (and makes sky-diving a lot more fun). Air resistance happens because as things fall, they have to push their way past the atoms and molecules that make up air in order to get where they’re going.\n\nFor something like a rock, this isn’t really a big deal, since rocks tend to be really heavy while being pretty small, so they can push the air molecules out of the way quite easily. But things like feathers can’t push the air molecules out of the way very well – for one, they weigh less so they don’t push as hard. And for another, they’re pretty big, so they run into a lot more air molecules than the rock does. So the air actually slows the feather down.\n\nThis is what makes parachute work. If a person were to fall without a parachute, they’d push the air molecules out of the way very easily, so the air wouldn’t be able to do much to slow the person down. But if the person is attached to a parachute, then the parachute will run into lots of air molecules, and especially if it’s curved to be higher up in the middle, it will be very hard for the air molecules to get out of the way. If they can’t get out of the way, they will slow the parachute (and hence the person) down. \n\nAnother way to put it:)\n\n    *  A parachute works to slow down someone or something from falling by creating “drag”.\n    * Drag is the push on something from air or water.\n    * Because air is much thinner than water it doesn’t have as much drag.\n    * The bigger something is – the larger it’s surface area the more drag it creates.\n    * That’s why a parachute works so well – it’s very light and it has a very big surface area. It catches lots of air in it as it falls so it creates lots of drag which slows it down as it falls. \n\nHope you are happy now, I am still NOT jumping out of an airplane, lol
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1.This means the rain is scattered over a large area and where you live, you may or may not get any.\n2.This means that in your area, some showers are likely.\n3.This means you can expect moderate rain in your area.\n3.This means that rain is expected at some point in your area but as to when, they do not know except that it appears cloud formation carrying rain may hit your place.\n5 This means that you can expect rain with a  reasonable degree of certainty in your area at a significant rate measuring several millimeters
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When!? About a week and a half ago actually!Every time I hear some one here in Québec complaining about stupid fact such as weather, or a little rain for example, I always reply that they are lucky to live in such a pacific environnement and if some rain bothers them, well at leat here it's water falling...Not bombs!