RAIN

Remember my post from a long time ago, about RAIN?
I love Rain.
When we first moved to the desert-10 years ago- I remember laying on the living room floor-before it had furniture- and watching through the picture windows, the magnificent thunder and lightening storms carrying on outdoors! Impressive, Magnificent storms. They seem fewer and further between as of late. I miss them. I LOVE rain in the desert. The smells are celestial.
Anyway....I thought I'd share some more precipitation trivia with you.

75% of all fresh water is locked in the ice caps and glaciers. If it came to us as rain, it would fall on the entire earth for 60 years or more, NONSTOP!!

One inch of rainfall on one acre weighs 113 TONS!!

The energy from one hurricane could power the entire US for 3 years!

There is enough water in the atmosphere to cover the entire earth in one inch of water.

Rain falls at an average speed of 22 miles per hour.


A typical lightening bolt is 2-4 inches wide and 2 miles long!


One-tenth of the earths surface is permanently covered with ice.