How much water pours on top of San Francisco when it rains?

	in. of rain	cm of rain	liters of water	gallons of water	individual raindrops
	0.1	0.3	300 million	80 million	4 trillion
	0.2	0.5	600 million	160 million	8 trillion
	0.5	1.3	1.5 billion	400 million	20 trillion
	1	2.5	3 billion	800 million	40 trillion
	2	5.1	6 billion	1.6 billion	80 trillion
on an average day when it rains in SF	0.3	0.8	968 million	250 million	13 trillion
the entire average rainy season	21.5	54.6	65 billion	17 billion	860 trillion

If you stacked all this water on top of a football field, how tall would the water be?

	in. of rain	yards	miles
	0.1	70
	0.2	130
	0.5	330
	1	660
	2	1,320
on an average day when it rains in SF	0.3	210
the entire average rainy season	21.5	14,230	7 miles

what I would like to know is: what is the volume of the Transamerica building? How many Transamerica buildings made out of water burst over San Francisco when it rains?

 

What if it rained wine? How drunk would everybody get?

	in. of rain	glasses of wine	glasses of wine per person on the Planet	est. blood alchohol of everyone on the Planet
	0.1	2 billion	0.3	0.01
	0.2	4 billion	0.7	0.02
	0.5	10 billion	1.7	0.05
	1	20 billion	3.5	*0.11
	2	41 billion	6.9	*0.21
on an average day when it rains in SF	0.3	6.5 billion	1.1	0.03
the entire average rainy season	21.5	440 billion

* definitely not safe to drive!

what I would like to know is: how many olives does California produce in a year? What about the whole world? If it rained martinis (also about 5 oz. each) would there be enough olives for all of them?

 

What if it rained money? How much cash would be falling on our heads if every raindrop were a penny?

	in. of rain	total amt of money	per person in San Francisco	per person on Planet
	0.1	$40 billion	$53,798.08	$6.84
	0.2	80 billion	$107,596.16	$13.68
	0.5	200 billion	$268,990.41	$34.19
	1	400 billion	$537,980.82	$68.39
	2	800 billion	$1,075,961.64	$136.78
on an average day when it rains in SF	0.3	130 billion	$172,153.86	$21.88
the entire average rainy season	21.5	8.7 trillion	$11,566,587.61	$1,470.33

What if rain were caused by people in the sky peeing on us?

	in. of rain	people who would have to pee on San Francisco	# of times everyone in SF would have to pee
	0.1	1 billion	1,345
	0.2	2 billion	2,690
	0.5	5 billion	6,725
	1	10 billion	13,450
	2	20 billion	26,899
on an average day when it rains in SF	0.3	3.2 billion	4,304
the entire average rainy season	21.5	220 billion	289,165

What if it was just one really big person? (peeing just once)

	in. of rain	this person would weigh how many tons?	and be this many miles tall
	0.1	75 million	960 thousand
	0.2	150 million	2 million
	0.5	380 million	5 million
	1	760 million	10 million
	2	1.5 billion	20 million
on an average day when it rains in SF	0.3	240 million	3 million

what I want to know is: how big is the sun? Is a person who is this tall bigger than the sun?

What if it rained milk? How many cows would it take to make all of this milk?

	in. of rain	# of cows
	0.1	13 million
	0.2	25 million
	0.5	63 million
	1	127 million
	2	254 million
on an average day when it rains in SF	0.3	41 million

there are approximately 800,000 cows in California

what I would like to know is: how much cheese can you get from a gallon of milk? If we could switch back and forth between it raining milk and raining wine, would we be able to get enough to have a global wine and cheese party?

What if it was just one really big cow (like a Holstein)?

	in. of rain	the cow would weigh (tons)
	0.1	8 million
	0.2	16 million
	0.5	41 million
	1	82 million
	2	165 million
on an average day when it rains in SF	0.3	26 million

If you made rain by slicing a chunk of water out of the ocean (all the way down to the bottom) and then carried it through the air and dumped it on San Francisco, how big a chunk would you need to slice out?

	in. of rain	a square with sides this big (meters)
	0.1	9
	0.2	13
	0.5	20
	1	28
	2	40
on an average day when it rains in SF	0.3	16
the entire average rainy season	21.5	131

When it rains, a lot of water falls on our heads. But just what fraction of all the water on the planet is this?

	in. of rain	fraction of all the water
	0.1	0.2 trillionths
	0.2	0.4 trillionths
	0.5	1 trillionth
	1	2 trillionths
	2	4 trillionths
on an average day when it rains in SF	0.3	0.7 trillionths
the entire average rainy season	21.5	46 trillionths

A drop in the bucket.