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Is it possible to measure the weight of clouds?

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Re: Is it possible to measure the weight of clouds?
« Reply #20 on: 09/03/2021 05:24:12 »
One estimate of cumulus cloud density is as a density of about 0.5 gram per cubic meter. A 1 cubic kilometer (km3) cloud contains 1 billion cubic meters. Doing the math: 1,000,000,000 x 0.5 = 500,000,000 grams of water droplets in our cloud.
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Re: Is it possible to measure the weight of clouds?
« Reply #21 on: 09/03/2021 10:44:39 »
Assuming you mean kg/m3, that's still a very high cloud - about 20,000 ft. You might encounter cumulus at that height in Texas but it's about the top of a very big cumulonimbus in the UK!
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