Curious if anyone has noticed the same phenomenon that I did yesterday.

The car was outside in the rain and parked slightly uphill so there was quite a bit of water sitting on the hood. When I started up and drove off the water started to pool in one place in each of the two troughs on either side of the hood and continued to accumulate as I drove down the road at around 60km/h. In the five minutes or so before a red light cropped up that I had to stop for I'd estimate that an impressive volume of water - I'd say approximately the size of an orange - was being retained on each side. Exactly where the "ball of water" was in the trough depended upon speed - higher speed was further up the hood, lower speed further down and of course it all ran off once stopped.

Not a problem or anything - just a really nifty phenomenon I'd never seen before.

\|/ Jeff \|/

 

I've seen the same thing. Pretty cool, huh?