Beauty of rain

The beauty of rain is that irrespective of the cloud height, it falls with a maximum speed of just 10 m/s .

It is all due to buoyancy and interaction of one rain drop with another resulting in the formation of rain drops being formed at much lower heights.

The other beauty of rain is about its impact on human body and the feelings that we get as a result of this interaction. The result is in terms of the intensity of rain. The beauty of rain is enjoyable when it is just drizzling . During drizzling, the diameter of rain drops is less than 0.5 mm and when such drops fall on our body, they produce a sense of great satisfaction and it is enjoyable. It will feeling to remain outside and enjoy as much as possible. The total water falling or intensity is about 1.0 mm/hr.

Once this intensity crosses 2.5 mm/hr, it is moderate and it is the time, when children really enjoy and one feels yes, Earth is being charged and greenery needs water, one feels to be poetic.

Again around 7.5 mm /hr, it is heavy and one looks at the sky before moving out and also one has to think of leakages if any in the shelter. At 20 mm /hr, water logging will start and people think of safety etc., the fear starts coming to the mind.

At 50 mm/hr and more,its is severe or torrential and the safety of self, family, locality starts creeping in. One looks at the sky just to have a personal estimate on how long this would continue and it is the best time for TV channels to finish their stock of abuses as water logging would open various frauds of cleaning the drainage systems. At this intensity, roads get damaged and landslides are frequent.

The ornamental beauty of a single raindrop drops to beastly beauty of muddy turbulent water flowing as flood water invading places at will.