On 13 May, 21:43, "CHRIS KIDD" wrote:
Yes, and it's worth thinking about it - 1 litre (spelling please!) is 1 kg,
so for every 1 mm of rainfall, each 1 square km has 1,000 tonnes of water -
so today, with ~25mm of rainfall each square km had 25,000 tonnes of water!

But it just wouldn't sound right if Sacha Distel had sung:
"Tonnes of rain keep falling on my head"

So, taking the average size for a head, if M.Distel had stood outside
for ten minutes in a rain shower that was giving say 5 mms of rain
per hour, how many kgs would have fallen on his head during that
time?

Jack