TIL That a small cloud (1 Cubic Kilometer) weighs about 1.1 million lbs!

www.usgs.gov How Much Does a Cloud Weigh? | U.S. Geological Survey

I don't know anyone who is afraid to walk underneath a cumulus cloud because they are afraid it might fall on them. We don't think of clouds even having weight because they are floating. But, clouds are made up of a physical substance, water, and water is quite heavy, so clouds must have weight. We ...

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I love how you're mixing metric and imperial in the title 😂
- Must be Canadian
  
  ...@lemmy.ca
  
  checks out
TIL some people think 1 cubic kilometer is "small"
- 1 cubic kilometer of anything will basically fucking kill you.
  
  What about 1 cubic km of air at one standard atmospheric pressure?
For reference: air density is roughly 1kg/m³ [see note]. So the same volume of air is roughly 10⁶ tons. The air in the cloud weights 2000 more than the water.

NOTE: it's 1.3kg/m³ on sea level, 0.9kg/m³ at 3km over sea level, I think that 1kg/m³ is a safe bet.

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