{"id":18647,"date":"2018-07-25T02:19:43","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T02:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.natgeokids.com\/?p=18647"},"modified":"2018-07-25T06:27:37","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T06:27:37","slug":"science-dr-karl-cloud-weight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.natgeokids.com\/uk\/discover\/science\/nature\/science-dr-karl-cloud-weight\/","title":{"rendered":"Science with Dr Karl: How much does a cloud weigh?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.creatureandcoagency.com\/uploads\/2018\/07\/howmuchdocloudweighs1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18651\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.creatureandcoagency.com\/uploads\/2018\/07\/howmuchdocloudweighs1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.creatureandcoagency.com\/uploads\/2018\/07\/howmuchdocloudweighs1.jpg 635w, https:\/\/cdn.creatureandcoagency.com\/uploads\/2018\/07\/howmuchdocloudweighs1-300x191.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ever wondered just how much does a cloud weigh?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A cloud is made up of many, many tiny \u2018clumps\u2019 of water, either liquid or frozen. The liquid droplets are about 0.002mm across \u2013 smaller than the thickness of a human hair. Some of these tiny droplets are so small that it would take a million of them to make a single raindrop!<\/p>\n<p>Different clouds carry different amounts of water. After all, cloud shapes and sizes can range from thin wispy cirrus, right up to the monstrous cumulonimbus thunderclouds.<\/p>\n<p>A typical cumulus carries about 0.5g of water \u2013 the weight of a big garden pea \u2013 in each cubic metre. The cloud might be 1km wide, 1km long and 1km high, so it could contain up to 500 tonnes of water!<\/p>\n<p>Air (when it is moving very fast) can easily hold up a jetplane that weighs 600 tonnes. So a lot of slowly moving air can easily hold up a 500-tonne one!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wondered just how much does a cloud weigh?\u00a0 A cloud is made up of many, many tiny \u2018clumps\u2019 of water, either liquid or frozen. The liquid droplets are about 0.002mm across \u2013 smaller than the thickness of a human hair. Some of these tiny droplets are so small that it would take a million &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.natgeokids.com\/uk\/discover\/science\/nature\/science-dr-karl-cloud-weight\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Science with Dr Karl: How much does a cloud weigh?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":18648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[2335,2333,2334,1922,947,2125],"christmas-category":[],"class_list":["post-18647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nature","tag-air","tag-cloud","tag-clouds","tag-dr-karl","tag-science","tag-water","countries-australia","countries-new-zealand"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>cloud weight | science with dr karl | national geographic kids<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Dr Karl investigates how much a cloud weighs. 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