Why rain is always in shower form? Why they don't just simply splash down to the ground?

Question

As the rain cloud are too heavy to support by air, they fall to the ground. Why they don't just simply splash to down, but in shower form?

Answer 1

A cloud is made of small drops of water or ice crystals depending upon its height and how cold its sorrounding air is.Most rainfall begins as snow crystals and other solid forms.Entering the warmer air below the cloud, these ice particles often melt and reach the ground as raindrops.Raindrops as they descend,initiate a chain reaction,a downward trend of the water droplets , with the larger drops always breaking.The larger the cloud droplet, the better its chances of colliding with a giant droplet.Thus there are collisions between raindrops.Some collisions cause drops to coalesce, forming a large drop and some cause drops to break into smaller ones.As the sizes of drops are different,each drop falls at a different speed.Giant droplets fall rapidly.Thus drops keep on falling side by side and not in a continuous stream.Under these circumstances splashing down is not possible.

Answer 2

This past Tuesday I got caught in what is called a deluge or downpour and it was horrendous. It was like being under Niagara Falls. It didn't last long but it was intense while it lasted. So it does at times come down so hard like a splash or a big wave in the Graet Lakes.