Cecil Moore wrote:

Someone reported being able to hear each individual large
snowflake. Could be that the amount of charge in a large
snowflake or a large piece of dust is magnitudes higher than
in a drop of rain, which I assume is the charge you are talking
about above. In any case, a very large number of particles
hitting around the same time could have a cumulative effect.
I personally have never heard P-static from rain but I think
I have seen it remembered on the bandscope on my IC-756PRO.

This study found that 20% of the observed charges were greater than 1.6
pC. Or, 80% were below 1.6 pC. At least it doesn't contradict your
hypothesis.

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1981PhDT.......149B
Collection of Electric Charge Information on Snowflakes in the Field.

73,

Chuck

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