That moment I learned the average cloud weighs a million pounds

Was sitting on my porch last Tuesday watching some big fluffy clouds drift by. Got curious so I looked it up on that NASA Q&A site. Turns out a typical cumulus cloud holds about 1.1 million pounds of water. Blew my mind that something that heavy just floats around like it's nothing. Anyone else get tripped up by random facts like this?

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martinez.kim1mo ago

Honestly that fact messed me up for like a whole day. I kept looking at clouds and thinking about how they're basically giant water balloons floating in the sky. Still can't wrap my head around how physics even works with that kind of weight just hanging there.

martinez.kim1mo ago

Wait, are you telling me a single cumulus cloud can weigh as much as 100 elephants? That's wild, I genuinely had no idea.