Rain - Fast or slow?

[-Spector-]

Topic: Will you get hit by more rain drops if you are running or walking?

/discuss

[D3V]

Running.

If you are walking you cover a less area that the drops could be in, say there are 20 drops inside of a 6ft by 3ft rectangle while you are walking it only multiplies so fast, now if you are running you have a chance to break through new barriers and get hit by more drops.

[Thanatos]

Ever drove in the rain? Notice how it seems like it's raining harder when you're moving rather than stationary?

[Wallow]

But if there's wind to rain, and you're in a large storm, there isn't much difference if you stay still, walk, or run, except that if you run you'll get hit by more of the rain.

[Demosthenes]

Walking.

[Willkillforfood]

Walking, but I got this from watching Myth Busters.

[talentedhamster]

Rhode Island. Neither a road or an island.


/discuss

[Willkillforfood]

Rhode is a Greek Deity?

[Vault Dweller]

The Deity of Miniscule Armpit States?

[!King_Amazon!]

http://kwc.org/mythbusters/2003/09/mythbusters.html

"Over a hundred yard course, it is better to walk in the rain than run in the rain, if your goal is to not get wet. The difference isn't huge, but over eight trials the running person got wetter."

[Willkillforfood]

Mythbusters redid the experiment and found that it's better to run in the rain.

[micdawg12]

but its better to run in the rain, on a slick surface, with a knife in your hand, and a noose around your neck...and it attached to a tree...

but only if your black of course

[Willkillforfood]

What the fuck are you on? x_X.

[D3V]

I got a better idea.


Get an umbrella. If you're out in the rain and worried about the degree of wetness you are going to obtain it's going to be miniscule when compared to having an umbrella, or not being out in the rain at all.

[Thanatos]

stand under my umbrella ella ella eh eh eh

[!King_Amazon!]

She says umberella.

[HandOfHeaven]

Foreign wench. I'd bang her twice, then throw her out.

[talentedhamster]

id just like hit her with a baseball bat. i HATE that song. and everyday at camp last year BLI was on for 8 hours. That song came on at least 3 times a day. no joke.

[Asamin]

Sometimes I have herd a song played, then another, then the first again. It is absurd. No one wants to listen to a song that many times.

[micdawg12]

im on something, not sure yet...

[klo]

Walking, you are in the rain for a longer amount of time...also probably depends on distance you are traveling and weather conditions.

[Atnas]

Ever drove in the rain? Notice how it seems like it's raining harder when you're moving rather than stationary?

Notice how it seems like small furry animals like squirrels hit a moving car harder than one that jumps on it while parked?

[krisvek]

Thanatos likely meant 'heavier', meaning, rain is hitting you more frequently, and not literally 'harder'.

Regardless, aside from any odd weather condition, I'd imagine the difference of whether you get wetter or not depends on if you are moving at a speed faster or slower than the rate at which the rain is falling.

[-Spector-]

So you'd have to be going fast enough to not get soaked, but slow enough to not get....soaked?

If you're walking uber slow (yes, I said it) then you're gonna get completely drenched. And if you're walking extremely fast, you're going to hit more droplets then intended also. So their must be a mathmatical equation to figure this out...









....Where's MJ?

[HandOfHeaven]

Well, it was raining outside yesterday, so I decided to walk and run. I still got wet.

[-Spector-]

NO FUCKIN WAY! >.>


This is just getting crazier and crazier!

[HandOfHeaven]

Then someone kept flashing their camera at me, so I got scared and rolled around in the mud.

I still got wet!

[Wallow]

Wait, but if you run, you can get under some type of cover rather than if you take your time and walk while you get drenched.

[Asamin]

Then someone kept flashing their camera at me, so I got scared and rolled around in the mud.

I still got wet!
I don't know if you realized this but, water is generally in a liquid state when it is falling from the sky. This liquid state is very wet.

[HandOfHeaven]

I don't know if you realized this but, water is generally in a liquid state when it is falling from the sky. This liquid state is very wet.
Wow...

[-Spector-]

You shoulda added the sarcasm tags :-/

[HandOfHeaven]

O rly?

[Atnas]

I just thought about it and figured it out.

Assuming you can't get under cover and are on a totally flat plane, and can not escape the area under the rain, and the rain is evenly dispersed, you will be hit by the same amount of droplets, regardless wether you are moving fast or slow.

[!King_Amazon!]

I'd say a nice job is where it's at.

[Wallow]

Does hail travel faster than rain when coming down from the clouds? Rail is lighter, but hail could have the effect of gravity on it more...

[!King_Amazon!]

You fail at physics.

[Demosthenes]

Does hail travel faster than rain when coming down from the clouds? Rail is lighter, but hail could have the effect of gravity on it more...

Yes, and no.

Yes, hail will drop faster, but not due to it being accelerated faster by gravity. The force on anything near the Earth's surface due to gravity will cause it to accelerate at -9.8 m/s/s. However, air resistance will slow down the water droplets more than hail.

[Wallow]

I have physics honors next year, so I haven't failed yet...

[talentedhamster]

hail sucks. it hurts alot more than rain does

[Willkillforfood]

Yes, and no.

Yes, hail will drop faster, but not due to it being accelerated faster by gravity. The force on anything near the Earth's surface due to gravity will cause it to accelerate at -9.8 m/s/s. However, air resistance will slow down the water droplets more than hail.

Beat me to it :x.

[krisvek]

Okay, we can look at our path through the rain as a volume... assuming an even distribution and a constant rate of rainfall, then each cross-section of that volume will have the same amount of rain at each moment in time. So, your speed through that volume doesn't matter if you are out in the rain for the same amount of time for both walking and running, but in reality, the point of the running is to get under shelter, so you will spend less time under the rain, thus getting less rain on you. Running or walking makes no predictable change to the number of rain drops in your path at any given moment.

[Wallow]

Here, I'll introduce a new question for debate as we've basically already covered the rain one. Suppose you are out in the opening away from any trees or foilage, (you're standing on just grass), and you're standing in the middle of a thunderstorm. Now there are two situations. One, the rain has ceased from falling, you've managed to stay dry somehow, and the thunderstorm is still going on. Two, the rain is still going on as well as the thunderstorm, and you are drenched. Would you be more susceptible to be electricuted (hit directly) by lightning in situation 1 or 2?

[Willkillforfood]

I'm not really sure. I know the reason why there's so much static during winter is because the humidity in our homes is relatively low due to the furnaces, etc. I'll just say situation 1 :D.

[Asamin]

Does hail travel faster than rain when coming down from the clouds? Rail is lighter, but hail could have the effect of gravity on it more...
In saying this you stated that hail falls faster than rain......

[Wallow]

Dude, no I didn't. It was a simple question

[Coffeedagger]

I don't think it will matter if you are wet or not. The lightning will strike the same rate all the time is my vote.

[Atnas]

Lightning strikes the tallest object.

[HandOfHeaven]

Midgets shouldn't be worried, then.

[Wallow]

What about the myth that Lightning never strikes in the same place twice. I think it's false, because lightning tends to be unpredictable and random during a thunderstorm.

[!King_Amazon!]

As far as I know, there is no logical reason why lightning couldn't strike the same place twice. It might be unlikely, but it's certainly not impossible.

[Wallow]

hence why it's a myth:D

[MidnightsChorus]

This is something I found on weatherimagery.com


"A popular myth is that lightning cannot strike the same place twice, but nothing could be further from the truth. Lightning does, can and will strike the same exact place more than once. It doesn’t have a memory, and if an object has been struck once, it is no less likely to be struck a second time. If you don’t believe me, just ask some of the employees at Cape Canaveral in Florida. The shuttle launch pad gets hit time and time again, sometimes more than once in the same storm. How about the Empire State Building in New York city which gets struck by lightning about 25 times each year. Even Roy Sullivan was struck by lightning 7 times!"

So, I do believe that this is a myth.

[Willkillforfood]

The possibility of the same place being struck by lightning twice is 1 out of 1, imo. Although lightning strikes a small fraction of the earth's crust annually, over countless millenia I'm sure every piece of earth has been struck.

[Wallow]

I wonder what kind of damage has been caused by simple lightning strikes
Fires could flame up, people could be injured, etc. etc.

[Willkillforfood]

Many things can happen. Lightning strikes are a cause for concern in undeground mines. The lightning can penetrate deep into sealed off oldworks, which have high methane levels.

[MidnightsChorus]

The lightning can penetrate deep into sealed off oldworks, which have high methane levels. Really? Wow, I did not know that. Lightning is extremly powerful.

[Willkillforfood]

Yes, lightning can also cause great things in the earth it hits. If it hits certain types of soil (sandy I guess) it can cause the formation of a glass-like substance in the shape of the lightning strike. It looks like the roots from a tree and is pretty cool.

[!King_Amazon!]

Yes, lightning can also cause great things in the earth it hits. If it hits certain types of soil (sandy I guess) it can cause the formation of a glass-like substance in the shape of the lightning strike. It looks like the roots from a tree and is pretty cool.
These are shown in Sweet Home Alabama, in case anyone has seen it.

[MidnightsChorus]

Yes, lightning can also cause great things in the earth it hits. If it hits certain types of soil (sandy I guess) it can cause the formation of a glass-like substance in the shape of the lightning strike. It looks like the roots from a tree and is pretty cool.
Wow. That's really neat. I have never heard of that. I would love to see it.

[Mantralord]

i got this nice Coach umbrella that i flaunt around like a fag