MILWAUKEE -- Maybe growing up, or still to this day, you wondered how we get rain. We all take this process for granted, and it happens constantly in our atmosphere. It all starts with tiny particles ...

Way up high in the atmosphere, dust and smoke particles suspended in clouds create places where moisture can settle and form into drops. The drops sitting up here are like little globes of water, ...

During a thunderstorm, there are often lots of tiny water droplets in the clouds that form precipitation like water, snow or hail. But that precipitation doesn’t always fall right to the ground.

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As I’m writing this, there is a light rainfall outside. In a very unscientific experiment, I stuck a four inch by four inch sheet of paper outside the front door for one second, brought it back inside ...

When Tropical Storm Gaston hit Richmond, Va., in August 2004, its notable abundance of small and mid-sized raindrops created torrential rains that led to unexpected flash flooding throughout the city ...

MACON, Ga. — A rainbow forms when sunlight enters a raindrop. When this happens, sunlight bounces around the raindrop and changes speed and direction. That's called refraction. These changes also ...

WASHINGTON — Most of us have an image of what a raindrop looks like. Some say it's shaped like a teardrop, or it is glamorized to look perfectly round. In reality, scientists document that raindrops ...