4 Things about Rain You May Not Have Known
Updated: May 20, 2022
"Rain rain go away, come again another day...", sounds like the start of a prolonged drought. But since we're on the subject of rain, how much does it weigh? What does raining cats and dogs actually mean? Here are those answers and a couple of extra questions that had me wondering:
1. It prefers Petite Rain over Light Rain, How much does it weigh?
An inch of rain can measure around 226,000 lbs in an acre of land. Every minute, one billion tons of rain falls on the earth. Each inch of rain is relatively heavy. One inch of rain on a square foot of land weighs 5.20 pounds. One inch of rain on one acre of land weighs 113.31 tons.
