1.   Switch to a spring dressing when rain fall drops and leaching will be less, he urges.

2.   As Crenshaw stood over his par putt, rain drops dripped from the bill of his cap onto the ball.

3.   Hail forms when rain drops collect and freeze onto partially melted snow flakes.

4.   Hail is a ball of ice that forms when rain drops collect and freeze onto partially melted snow flakes high in a thunderstorm.

5.   Sleet is frozen rain drops, or ice pellets, that bounce when hitting the ground or other objects.

6.   So while the sulfuric acid level in an average rain drop is down, the nitric acid level has stayed about the same.

7.   Suddenly the wind picked up, and a few rain drops plopped against the sidewalk.

8.   The crystals may warm and melt into rain drops, or they may grow branches and fall as snowflakes.

9.   The good professor chides the Weather Channel for using teardrop-shaped rain drops in its maps when everyone knows that raindrops are spherical.

10.   The Mets and Pirates got both at Shea last weekend, playing through rain drops and frigid weather before the inevitable postponement Sunday.