All of this assumes the rain is falling perfectly vertically. Some trigonometry will show that in the case of a tailwind, where the rain is at your back, a scenario is possible where there is a finite speed beyond which going faster will cause you to intersect more raindrops, rather than fewer. Calculating the precise numbers is left as an exercise for the reader.
treesknees 2 hours ago [-]
I just remember watching a Mythbusters episode where they concluded that walking kept you more dry.
veggieWHITES 2 hours ago [-]
Obviously if you walked at a snails pace, even the lightest rain would get you soaked.
AStonesThrow 2 hours ago [-]
First of all, sort of bizarre for people to get caught without any rain gear. Don't you folks read the forecasts? But it's true: I see 90% of the pedestrians outside without any rain gear when it starts raining. I suppose they may be foreigners, students, homeless, or just don't really care about a little moisture. Personally I like to pack my coat whenever there's a slight chance. I had a few unpleasant episodes where I was dressed, business casual, stood at a bus stop and got soaked, with no shelter.
Anyway, I prefer to frolic and dance in the rain. It's so rare around here, and seldom so cold that I'd want to escape it. I love it when rain comes to the desert. It's a majestic thing. Although, our monsoons often come with a heaping dose of dust storms, which are best avoided. That's why I'm keeping a goodly supply of dust masks by the door!
JumpCrisscross 19 minutes ago [-]
> don't really care about a little moisture. Personally I like to pack my coat whenever there's a slight chance
Having lived in New York, there appear to be three sorts of us. The first, the clueless, get caught and drenched and are miserable. The second, the prepared, have an umbrella, like yourself. The third, me, will swap to a t-shirt and quick-drying jeans before going out and pick rain-compatible transport and keep an eye on nice places to run and duck into to wait out cloudbursts because we’ll just lose the umbrella before the end of the day anyway.
freeone3000 49 minutes ago [-]
This behavior may be a result of the climate. There’s several months where I live where the daily chance of rain falls between 20-40%, and it does rain on about a fifth to a third of those days… but the other days I have to give up bag space for an umbrella, for nothing! So I usually won’t carry rain gear unless the rain is obvious and obviously heavy (dark clouds and high winds, for instance, versus simply being overcast) or there’s some special thing where I must arrive dry (date, client meeting, the like)
pengaru 2 hours ago [-]
Running gets you to your destination in much less time than walking the same distance, obviously you'll probably arrive less wet.
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Anyway, I prefer to frolic and dance in the rain. It's so rare around here, and seldom so cold that I'd want to escape it. I love it when rain comes to the desert. It's a majestic thing. Although, our monsoons often come with a heaping dose of dust storms, which are best avoided. That's why I'm keeping a goodly supply of dust masks by the door!
Having lived in New York, there appear to be three sorts of us. The first, the clueless, get caught and drenched and are miserable. The second, the prepared, have an umbrella, like yourself. The third, me, will swap to a t-shirt and quick-drying jeans before going out and pick rain-compatible transport and keep an eye on nice places to run and duck into to wait out cloudbursts because we’ll just lose the umbrella before the end of the day anyway.