The fluffy white cumulus cloud drifting over your house right now weighs roughly 500 tonnes, the equivalent of 100 elephants, yet it floats because the dry air beneath it is denser than the cloud itself

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1. Sat, 8 August 2026

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     The fluffy white cumulus cloud drifting over your house right now weighs roughly 500 tonnes, the equivalent of 100 elephants, yet it floats because the dry air beneath it is denser than the cloud itself

     A typical cumulus cloud may contain about 500 tonnes of liquid water. That water is dispersed as microscopic droplets through a vast, warm and continually changing volume of air.