Funny Facts » rain http://funnyfact.com Welcome To A World Of Oddities Funny Facts And Insane Trivia Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:32:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 How fast does rain fall http://funnyfact.com/how-fast-does-rain-fall/ http://funnyfact.com/how-fast-does-rain-fall/#comments Wed, 09 Feb 2011 17:56:37 +0000 admin http://funnyfact.com/?p=3510

If you don’t include wind driven rain, rain falls between 7 and 18 miles per hour in non windy air. Thats kind of a large range, but the speed depends on the size of the rain and the friction of the air.

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Hawaii’s Mount Waialeale gets the most rainfall per year with 460 inches of rain per year.

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One inch of rain over one square mile is 17,378,700 gallons of water.

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