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Plain and simple, fwds are easier to drive in any type of weather and much much harder to create a loss of control. Basically, with the tires spinning or not, a fwd will stay straight. It's pretty simple to drive and requires a good deal of work to get it in a bad position.
For example, you can drive 80mph on freezing rain down the highway. As long as you don't brake or try to turn, you won't even notice you're driving on ice. Now going to a rwd car, the same situation becomes very different. First of all, good luck trying to get up to 80mph, lol. You won't make it past 30mph before the rear end slides out cause of the rolling drag of the front tires. Your rear end is always trying to overtake the front end. If you allow it to, you will spin out. Second, a rwd system is naturally unstable. The front end is creating drag(wanting to go backwards) and the rear end is applying force(wanting to go forwards). Each end basically wants to pass each other, the front wanting to go to the back, the rear end wanting to go up front(like a fwd car). When you decrease available grip, this unstability becomes very pronounced. I just use an icy road as an extreme example. I want you guys to guess what percentage of time I wasn't driving sideways in my bro's old Ford Ranger last winter, lol...good times. Subtract my drive to school and back and subtract corners and hills, lol. Well, there were some straights too, hehe.
For example, you can drive 80mph on freezing rain down the highway. As long as you don't brake or try to turn, you won't even notice you're driving on ice. Now going to a rwd car, the same situation becomes very different. First of all, good luck trying to get up to 80mph, lol. You won't make it past 30mph before the rear end slides out cause of the rolling drag of the front tires. Your rear end is always trying to overtake the front end. If you allow it to, you will spin out. Second, a rwd system is naturally unstable. The front end is creating drag(wanting to go backwards) and the rear end is applying force(wanting to go forwards). Each end basically wants to pass each other, the front wanting to go to the back, the rear end wanting to go up front(like a fwd car). When you decrease available grip, this unstability becomes very pronounced. I just use an icy road as an extreme example. I want you guys to guess what percentage of time I wasn't driving sideways in my bro's old Ford Ranger last winter, lol...good times. Subtract my drive to school and back and subtract corners and hills, lol. Well, there were some straights too, hehe.
I think the rwd is fine in the rain. Furthermore one of the few times I've seen the silvas around here get down was in a snowy parking lot during last winter. I couldn't even drive my supra. I think the ff is easier to drive in the rain if you don't know how to drive. If you have rwd you can use it as an advantage if you master it. This why I like drifting because alot of it has to do with using those hidden advantages.
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