40 trillion gallons. That’s the staggering amount of rain that fell on the Southeast last week from Hurricane Helene and another storm that preceded it, according to calculations by former NOAA chief scientist Ryan Maue.
It’s nearly impossible to wrap your head around the concept of 40 trillion gallons of water, so here are some helpful comparisons, per the AP. It would:
Fill the Dallas Cowboys stadium 51,000 times.
Fill Lake Tahoe (once).
Fill more than 60 million Olympic-size swimming pools.
Be the equivalent of 619 days of constant water flow over Niagara Falls.
Another scientist ran the calculations and said 40 trillion gallons was, if anything, an undercount.
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