What's more current than the weather?

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Originally Posted by Undertoad

And each gallon is 8 pounds so you just lifted 9,600 pounds of water!

Think about how heavy full of mass a cloud full of water is. My recollection from the radar was that this particular wet sponge of a cloud was about 25 miles from north to south, which is why it dumped on us for so long, and maybe 5 miles wide. It must have dropped an inch or 2 on us as it went past. And it was carrying that water all the way up from the Gulf and continuously dumping it for a day or two at that same rate as it slowly made its way up to my house. It's basically a small lake full of water in the sky.

Somebody must have done this math already somewhere. We're talking millions of kilograms, just floating along in the air.