Uploaded October 2013 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
Clouds float, so they must be light... right? Awti and Jeremy make it rain FACTS!
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Smaugg6923 minutes ago
Thanks for sharing yet another fantastic video. There's one thing that I find misleading in your video. When you hold up the shot-glass with water at around 1:41 you say that amount of water weighs 0.5 grams. I find this misleading because I'd eyeball the amount of water in the glass to be about 1 tablespoon, maybe even 2. Two tablespoons of water (30 ml) weigh 30 grams and that's 60 times more than 0.5 grams. Even one teaspoon (5ml) can contain 5 grams for water (10 times more then 0.5 grams).
Sorry for the nitpicking. I love your videos and I hope you'll keep making them.
!!! SCIENCE DISCLAIMER !!! This video bases its calculations of the water content of a cumulus cloud on what it would weigh at sea level. An argument can justifiably be made that clouds are "weightless." (see link #5 below) Understand that the mass of a cloud is profoundly contingent upon the wonderful complexity of cloud physics and its variety of factors: definition of "weight", altitude of cloud, consideration of content of air in the density or only liquid water content - or "LWC". For more information, please see links below; hope you enjoy this episode of "KnowThat?!"
1. Cloud weight in easy-to-read terms: bit.ly/17U50HM
2. Liquid Water Content of various clouds at various stages: bit.ly/18vBdVf
3. How Much Does a Hurricane Weigh? (weight comparison to elephants and whales; great animation!) http://n.pr/1dEKpP5
4. A cubic kilometer cumulus cloud can be considered to weigh over 2 billion lbs! on.doi.gov/19NznCS
5. What is "weight"? http://1.usa.gov/1akZGDj
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Clouds float, so they must be light... right? Awti and Jeremy make it rain FACTS!
Classroom resources: info.TexasDHHResources.org/KnowThat
Smaugg6923 minutes ago
Thanks for sharing yet another fantastic video. There's one thing that I find misleading in your video. When you hold up the shot-glass with water at around 1:41 you say that amount of water weighs 0.5 grams. I find this misleading because I'd eyeball the amount of water in the glass to be about 1 tablespoon, maybe even 2. Two tablespoons of water (30 ml) weigh 30 grams and that's 60 times more than 0.5 grams. Even one teaspoon (5ml) can contain 5 grams for water (10 times more then 0.5 grams).
Sorry for the nitpicking. I love your videos and I hope you'll keep making them.
!!! SCIENCE DISCLAIMER !!! This video bases its calculations of the water content of a cumulus cloud on what it would weigh at sea level. An argument can justifiably be made that clouds are "weightless." (see link #5 below) Understand that the mass of a cloud is profoundly contingent upon the wonderful complexity of cloud physics and its variety of factors: definition of "weight", altitude of cloud, consideration of content of air in the density or only liquid water content - or "LWC". For more information, please see links below; hope you enjoy this episode of "KnowThat?!"
1. Cloud weight in easy-to-read terms: bit.ly/17U50HM
2. Liquid Water Content of various clouds at various stages: bit.ly/18vBdVf
3. How Much Does a Hurricane Weigh? (weight comparison to elephants and whales; great animation!) http://n.pr/1dEKpP5
4. A cubic kilometer cumulus cloud can be considered to weigh over 2 billion lbs! on.doi.gov/19NznCS
5. What is "weight"? http://1.usa.gov/1akZGDj
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