{"id":23772,"date":"2022-03-18T19:23:04","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T23:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=23772"},"modified":"2022-03-18T19:23:07","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T23:23:07","slug":"physicists-explain-the-mesmerizing-movements-of-raindrops-on-car-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2022\/03\/physicists-explain-the-mesmerizing-movements-of-raindrops-on-car-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"Physicists explain the mesmerizing movements of raindrops on car windows"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today was a good day for many people to observe how water droplets move on car windshields, at least here in Georgia. <em>Science News<\/em> noted this week that a new study shows that the movement of the droplets up or down the windshield depends on the size of the drop. The larger drops move downward due to the influence of gravity, while the smaller drops move upward under the force of the wind blowing over the windshield. You can read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/article\/physics-raindrops-car-windows-gravity-wind\">https:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/article\/physics-raindrops-car-windows-gravity-wind<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/12\/rain-in-california.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"475\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/12\/rain-in-california.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/12\/rain-in-california.jpg 640w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/12\/rain-in-california-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/12\/rain-in-california-185x138.jpg 185w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Source: Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was a good day for many people to observe how water droplets move on car windshields, at least here in Georgia. Science News noted this week that a new study shows that the movement of the droplets up or down the windshield depends on the size of the drop. The larger drops move downward [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":1481,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23773,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23772\/revisions\/23773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}