I AM MOST CERTAINLY A WEATHER GEEK. Here's why!

• Today the temperatures climbed from 67.5° in the early morning to 85° at noontime.

• Between 12 and 1 PM the temperature plummeted sixteen degrees to 69.5° as an approaching line of cumulonimbus clouds pushed all of the atmosphere on top of us out of their way.

• There are 570 million tons of air in every square mile of atmosphere, and that all had to be moved to lower the temperature so quickly. The line of thunderstorm clouds stretched from Hartford to Brattleboro—about 85 miles.

• That means about 48.5 trillion tons of atmosphere were bulldozed across southern New England.

• The thunderhead that passed over Village Hill dropped just over a half-inch of rain in 15 minutes—as much as 8.7 million gallons of water.

• It is estimated that one inch of rain falling over an area of one square mile is equal to 17.4 million gallons of water.

• That much water would weigh 143 million pounds. If you multiply this by the recent storm on July 2nd that dropped 3.48 inches of rain—up to 60 million gallons of water may have fallen in a one square mile area around Village Hill. And the cloud that floated over us, carrying that water, weighed upward of 480 million pounds.

• Twenty five minutes after today's storm hit us the clouds had cleared and sunlight was again burning into us full force with 850 watts of energy per square meter. This in turn was adding heat and energy to create more weather and keep the cycle moving.

The kinetic, electrical, and solar energy that created that one brief storm was immense—likely enough to power thousands of homes for dozens of years or even more. When you think about what happens around us every day because of the weather you of have to admit—it's pretty awesome.