Why does rain fall drop by drop? Why can't the water just fall at us all at once?

Question

Why does rain fall drop by drop? Why can't the water just fall at us all at once?

Answer 1

then its not rain and it wouldn't make sense in nature

Answer 2

water is aliquid that only stays in one solid if inside a container. water is very loose and can never really be one solid. so rain falls drop by drop because 1: gravity splits the water up and 2: water is never just one solid.

Answer 3

because the way clouds precipitate.

water is divided into droplets and thats how it falls toward the earth, how it evaporates, and condensates.

Answer 4

When it does, it's actually called fog.

And even more so, when it's not yet fog, it's called humidity.

Just so you know, rain is when the air changes and can't retain the water it had absorbed from before (normally when it was hotter).  

You can see this the best when you boil water in a kettle - right at the very tip of the spout is where the air can handle all of the water thrown at it, which is why it's clear.  

Then  as the air/water mixture cools, the air's ability to hold "dissolved" water/steam is greatly diminished and you see the steam (which is fog in really hot air).  

Once the "fog" hits your hand (at a safe distance away) it condenses to droplets, which is rain - and instead of your hand it hits microscopic dust particles and picks up tons of moisture on its way down.  Water gathers into droplets due to cohesion, otherwise the fog just gets denser and denser.

Hope that explains it.