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February 10, 2014

The Weight of Rain

Two procedures to determine the weight of one inch of rain on one acre of land .... which comes to .... 113.3053382 tons of water/acre per 1 inch rain.

Posted by gerardvanderleun at February 10, 2014 6:46 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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Imagine having a one gallon raindrop hitting you in the head. That would be 8.8 pounds. Tata.

Posted by: Peccable at February 11, 2014 5:18 AM

Imagine having one cubic foot of raindrop hitting you in the head. That would be 62.48 pounds. Ouch.

Posted by: tripletap at February 11, 2014 5:24 AM

Reminds me of Job 38:

22 “Have you entered the storehouses of the snow
or seen the storehouses of the hail,
23 which I reserve for times of trouble,
for days of war and battle?
24 What is the way to the place where the lightning is dispersed,
or the place where the east winds are scattered over the earth?
25 Who cuts a channel for the torrents of rain,
and a path for the thunderstorm,
26 to water a land where no one lives,
an uninhabited desert,
27 to satisfy a desolate wasteland
and make it sprout with grass?
28 Does the rain have a father?
Who fathers the drops of dew?
29 From whose womb comes the ice?
Who gives birth to the frost from the heavens
30 when the waters become hard as stone,
when the surface of the deep is frozen?
31 “Can you bind the chains[b] of the Pleiades?
Can you loosen Orion’s belt?
32 Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons[c]
or lead out the Bear[d] with its cubs?
33 Do you know the laws of the heavens?
Can you set up God’s[e] dominion over the earth?
34 “Can you raise your voice to the clouds
and cover yourself with a flood of water?
35 Do you send the lightning bolts on their way?
Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?
36 Who gives the ibis wisdom[f]
or gives the rooster understanding?[g]
37 Who has the wisdom to count the clouds?
Who can tip over the water jars of the heavens
38 when the dust becomes hard
and the clods of earth stick together?

Posted by: Monty at February 11, 2014 7:59 AM

I thought water was usually quoted in acre-feet.

Posted by: Fat Man at February 11, 2014 8:24 AM

Fat Man,

You are right. The acre feet measurement is used in farm & ranch application and refers to well water drawn up or river water diverted. The sheer volume dictates larger increments.I never heard of any other terms of measurement. shrug. Down here they tried to put meters on F & R wells. That went over about as well as the revenuers back in Appalachia. Be nothin' left but the buttons. Charred.

Posted by: chasmatic at February 11, 2014 8:24 PM

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