Raindrops do tend to miss the back window, however. Wind passing over the rear of the car is accelerated on a downward angle, flowing parallel to and just above the rear window.

With nobody to do the same for them, the tears on the glass remained intact: raindrops, waiting for sunlight to turn them into air, waiting to be forgotten, to disappear once again into nothingness.

Perhaps another reason why we associate raindrops with teardrop shapes is that we’re more likely to see them when they’re falling off (and still attached to) objects like a glass window or a ...

Introduction Have you ever watched raindrops on your window as they move and run down the glass? It is fascinating to observe how some of them sit there by themselves whereas others combine to ...

It was pouring it down outside and the water was streaming down the window and I thought it looked quite effective how the moonlight outside caught the raindrops enhancing the patterns they made ...

Have you ever pondered why some raindrops on your windshield don’t move while others slide upwards or down? IT makes sense gravity pulls down droplets but why would they flow up while some don ...

Wind and gravity compete to make some raindrops go up while others slide down, a mathematical analysis suggests.

I also played a game with the raindrops — where I select one rain drop on the window pane and see if it is the first to reach the bottom.