What causes raindrops to be large or small?

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What causes raindrops to be large or small?

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Raindrops are larger based on three primary factors:

* amount of available water vapor (self explanatory)
* distance to center of storm cloud (center = bigger)
* intensity of wind in the cloud (more wind = more collisions = bigger drops)

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