Why do you get wetter while running in the rain than walking in it?

Question

just wondering.

no i dont have cable it is a bad influence on my opinion, i was wondering because if you don't know texas has been getting alot of rain latley and that is where i live and a few of my friends and i were outside while it started raining and they started running home while i walked and they were wetter than me.

Answer 1

I guess the same way you get hotter running in the sunshine than walking in it....

Answer 2

The body's effective "rain catch area" is bigger when you're running than when standing still. Assuming little wind speed while running, raindrops coming down at the front would hit your body's front. Whereas these would go straight down before your feet when standing still.

For a man standing still (or walking at a low speed) the angle of impact of the rain drops would mostly be perpendicular to the ground. The areas hit would thus be the head, shoulders and maybe the some of the tummy (if you're on the heavy side).

Running towards the rain changes the raindrops' angle of impact: they would come onto you diagonally and would thus also hit your front torso, legs, face and arms.

Answer 3

You will gather more water going from A to B walking than running, because you will be exposed to the rain for a longer period of time, if the rain is isotropic.
On the other hand, running will gather that rain at a faster rate, so you will get less wet faster by running the same distance, again assuming isotropic and homogeneous rain.

Answer 4

I remember reading of an experiment many years ago where the "subject(s)" were dressed in sweat clothes that were weighed before and after the experiment. The subjects walked or ran a certain distance in the rain. The runner's clothes weighed less than the walkers'. The conclusion was that the amount of rain absorbed was a function of how long the subject was exposed to the rain, not whether the subject ran or walked.

Answer 5

If you hit a bunching bag at 20 miles an hour compared to 10 miles per hour what do you think would have more force? Of couse 20 per hr would give you more force. Compare that to running and walking in the rain. You would get more wet running in the rain then walking. I hope this will help you. Blessings

Answer 6

Because you hit the rain faster when you run and get more rain drops on you. It's like running into a faucet.

When you walk in the rain, you don't get wet as much. But here in Hawaii, when there are monsoon rains, it doesn't make much of a difference. You just get soaked.

Answer 7

You are exposing more area for the rain to hit. If you just walk along then basically the only rain to hit you will hit you from the top, top of your head and the shoulders, top of your shoes. If you run you will run into rain drops that would have missed you but now you collect them on the front of your body as well as the head and shoulders.

Answer 8

You get wetter in the direction you are running (in front of you, if you are running forward).
When you run forward, the rain falls on you at an angle and your body moves to catch the drop of rain which would have otherwise fallen to the ground if you were stationary.

Answer 9

Pure physics. The velocity you have while running 'introduces' you to more space than while walking. Basically you are creating a bigger area for the rain to hit.

Answer 10

You obvously got this from myth busters. You actually get wetter walking for the myth busters revisted this myth in a later episode They where wrong and busted the myth.