Woman shares footage of ‘rain’ inside plane cabin that people are saying would send them into a meltdown

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Woman shares footage of ‘rain’ inside plane cabin that people are saying would send them into a meltdown

Is there a simple explanation for this one?

There are plenty of things you wouldn't want to happen on a flight.

You don't really want to be sat near a screaming newborn, and you probably wouldn't fancy being sat in front of a kid that keeps on kicking your chair - and don't even get us started on being next to an armrest hogger.

One thing we hadn't thought about - but we definitely wouldn't want to happen on our next flight - is if it started 'raining' inside the cabin.

That's what appeared to happen in a viral TikTok, posted by New York-based real estate agent Savannah Gowarty (@savinnyc).

When taking a four-hour flight back to New York, Gowarty posted a video of herself boarding a plane, with a fine mist flooding the cabin.

She wrote that the pilot said: "It appears to be raining in the cabin", and captioned the video: "Nothing better than being on a 4hr flight back to New York soaking wet and cold."

It certainly looks like an unpleasant situation, with droplets actually collecting on her body - making for a chilly flight back. She even tried drying off her shirt on the armrest, but we're not sure how successful that would have been.

But no, this wasn't rain inside a plane - luckily that's not a real thing.

In fact, it's a totally normal phenomenon - all to do with the air conditioning.

"Yes, this is just condensation (like fog)," said Christopher Hennon, a professor of meteorology at Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University told Fox Business.

"The plane was likely sitting at the gate for a while with no engines running, making the air inside warm and humid. When the engines started and the A/C was initiated, the air near the vents cooled quickly and saturated, causing the ‘smoke’."

@savinnyc/TikTok
@savinnyc/TikTok

Hennon told Fox it was "pretty common" and he had been on several flights where he had seen this happen, adding: "The condensation dissipates fairly quickly as the air inside the cabin becomes progressively drier."

Regardless, commenters under Gowarty's viral video - which has 648.4k likes in five days - would have been unimpressed if that was their plane.

"The way I would lose my mind if I had a fresh silk press!" the top comment read, with 78.2k likes.

"Oooo rainforest cafe experience but on an airplane," a second commenter joked.

"Like a cucumber in the produce aisle," a third quipped.

Featured Image Credit: savinnyc/TikTok