Have you ever wondered what shape a raindrop is??

Imagine a raindrop in your mind, or ask a friend to do so. Odds are a mental picture of a tear-drop-shaped water mass with a rounded end with a pointed tail. Literature, poetry, and song are filled with allusions to raindrops as heaven/sky tears, and those mental images have "clouded" our minds. The metaphor likely began when someone noticed that raindrops hitting a hard surface, such as window glass, roll off like tears flowing down the cheek. (source)

Our mission

We set out to find out what perception people had on the shape of a raindrop. We also found some pretty interesting responses as to why they think rain has that particular shape.