Great outdoors - walking in the rain

Right now, the Philippines is experiencing rains... It is rainy season with moments of summer...

During college, a friend and I were contemplating on how we could cross from one building to next to attend our classes. He was deep in thought while I was busy observing the quality of female students when he said, "It will be much better for us to walk through the drizzle than run as fast as we can to the next building."

An then he continued on to explain that walking through the drizzle or even light rain means that our bodies will get in contact with fewer droplets than when we run.

Here is the "scientific" explanation to his concept:

You have 10 droplets lined up level with one another 1 foot apart in a straight line moving downward at the same speed. When you walk through them as they drop, you will only get hit by one or two of them. But if you run through them, you will hit about half of them before they hit the ground.

Similarly, you hit a few droplets walking through a rain than running across it.

In a heavy downpour, however, the volume of droplets is so large that running will be the most prudent course of action.

I therefore conclude that the speed at which a person should traverse an open are during the rain is directly proportional to the amount of downpour. As such, light rain will required slow speed and heavy rain requires racing speed.

:)