TudorHgh wrote:
It's the sort of drizzle that (totally unscientific) wets you more
than a tropical downpour, as my mother would say. Must be due to
number of droplets per cubic metre, which always seems to at its
greatest in these situations.



If you go out in a drizzle, the droplets are so small and light they are
stopped by the slightest thing, so they stay totally on the outside of your
clothing, sometimes it seems barely touching it. Equally, your hair is no
wetter than if you'd sprayed it as the barber might do. Yet if you go out in
heavy rain the large drops bash straight through your clothing and hair,
soaking you in no time. So why does this nonsensical bit of folklore about
drizzle being wetter than heavy rain still persist? It's something I was
brought up with and still hear, but simple observation totally contradicts it.
It's just complete ********!

Tudor Hughes

I agreed with you Tudor, rationally very heavy/heavy rain will wet a
person more than drizzle.

Obviously what has to be answered is why do people perceive that
drizzle is wetter than heavy rain?

Could it do with the amount of raindrops per sq ft. Are there more rain
drops per sq ft in drizzle than heavy rain?

Therefore people will perceive that drizzle is wetter than heavy rain?

Joe
Wolverhampton