[ricardobeat]

Rain falls at 9m/s, so in a second you'd almost completely fill that space with 900 liters. For the immediate area around you, imagine an olympic pool of water falling roughly every second.

[ethbr1]

According to NASA, terminal velocity for the largest droplets is ~10 m/s.

Which seems oddly close (in magnitude) to Earth gravitational acceleration (9.8 m/s^2).

Weird!