So You Think You Can Draw a Raindrop

Well, you are in for a cruel awakening: “It turns out you’ve been drawing raindrops incorrectly your entire life,” says Newser, which links to NASA, which illustrates rain’s “hamburger bun”-type shape:

(Grabbed from this video.) This doesn’t seem to be news, though, and the hamburger bun looks like it breaks into raindrop-shaped raindrops at the end, too, so who knows. No one. Meanwhile, “how is snow formed,” in case, like me, you thought you knew but had no idea.