Bedashed With Rain!

Think, for a minute, what it’s like on a rainy day.

The sky is full of thick, gray clouds, and everything from sidewalks to upturned umbrellas is bedashed (see definition and hear pronunciation below) with rain.

It’s an ordinary occurrence, but the formation of those raindrops is pretty extraordinary.

It actually takes millions of cloud droplets to produce a single raindrop.

We typically think of raindrops as tear-shaped, but most small raindrops are spherical, with a radius of less than 1 millimeter.

Want to learn more cool facts about raindrops? Check here: http://water.usgs.gov/edu/watercycleprecipitation.html

Cool word vocabulary question of the day: Can you describe what you notice when the surface of a pool or lake is bedashed with rain?

Bedash: To splash with color or rain; to dash or spatter.

Click to hear the pronunciation of bedash:

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