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April Showers Bring . . .
BY THE NUMBERS
By The Numbers, a look at what’s in the news . . . by the numbers. These are just numbers, not suggestions that they mean more or less than what they are. We do not suggest that one number is connected to another. These are simply facts with no extraneous details, bias or slanted reporting. To borrow (and perhaps mangle a bit) a quote from legendary fictional detective Joe Friday, it’s just the numbers, ma’am!
Almost a week of April is in the books and we haven’t exactly been deluged with April showers. Still, we all know how it goes . . . April showers bring May flowers. Of course that got our curious minds wondering here at the Sagamore News Media world-wide headquarters. So we sent our intrepid reporting staff out to find out exactly what is behind these April Showers . . . By The Numbers!
.03 to .05
One drop of rain weighs around .03 to .05 grams.
1 pound
Here’s a question for some of you to ponder, while some of you smile. How much does a pound of rain weigh?
4.3
Our part of Indiana usually averages around 4.3 inches of rain during April, making it one of the soggier months of the year.
42 percent
When you wake up in the morning on any given day this month, you can expect about a 42 percent chance of rain that day.
12
Out of the 30 days in the month, typically we’ll see about 12 days of rain.
.019
There is a desert in South America that hardly ever gets rain. The Atacama Desert – which is in Chile and Peru – is the driest place on the planet. It only gets about .019 inches of rainfall a year. We’ll bet it doesn’t have many May flowers!
120
It takes a little, tiny raindrop about two minutes to fall from the cloud at around 2,500 feet to the ground . . . where, like anything else falling from that height, it goes splat!
$2,199 to $4,000+
According to our friends at Collette Travel, a trip to Ireland will run a little over $2,000 to more than $4,000 per person, depending on the length of time and different itineraries.
4th
Finally, April is the fourth wettest month – on average – in Indiana. It’s actually the start of the four. After April’s 4.3 inches, May gets 4.75, June is the most at 4.95 and July has 4.42.
We hope you enjoyed our fun with rain – now don’t forget your umbrella!