• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    that would be approximately 10000 mm rain per hour.

    Also known as 10m/h.

    Or departing from the realm of the useful completely, that’s water pooling at roughly 1/30 of the speed with which an elite cyclist ascends a particularly steep gradient.

    With a catchment area of “planet earth”, that’s roughly 5,100,000,000,000,000,000 liters of water an hour. That’s more than twice the amount of beer Lemmy Kilminster drank in an entire year!