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Feel on cloud nine meaning1/6/2023 ![]() ![]() If there is plenty of moisture, water droplets, and ice crystals to form fluffy-looking opaque clouds, the density of the cloud can withstand strong speeds. However, not all clouds can be moved around. Therefore, a cloud moves as fast as the wind moves. In reality, if a cloud were to remain in the same place with no wind moving on it, its temperature wouldn’t be cold enough to condense water droplets and it would have remained as water vapor. Rather, it’s the wind and air that passes through or around the clouds that make it appear like it is the one moving. Technically, it’s not the clouds that are moving. Because it’s possible for wind to randomly move around clouds, it can push two clouds together, separate chunks off a cloud, or make some parts of a cloud look thin and wispy. Wind can also affect the shape of a cloud. If you’ve noticed how most clouds have a flat base, this flat line is actually the point where the atmosphere starts to get too cold for vapor. If more water vapor continues to float up, it can push older water droplets upwards, forming a cloud with a puffy top. There are various factors that affect a cloud’s shape. When this vapor reaches a certain altitude, the air has become too cold for the moisture to rise up, so it condenses into the water droplets and ice crystals that make up the clouds. The sun heats up the ground and evaporates water via evaporation and transpiration. We’ve covered how clouds are created in a previous article Flat Clouds, Round Clouds, Wispy Clouds: The Science Behind Clouds and Their Shapes, but here’s a quick recap: clouds are formed as part of the water cycle when water vapors float up the air to a certain altitude in the sky. The random winds can be due to several factors like air movement, and heat from the sun. This is because the winds up there aren’t always moving in the same direction as the wind down here. However, it’s common to feel the wind heading east but see the clouds moving west. In common cases, you can see that the clouds are moving in the direction the wind is passing. And it’s that wind that makes clouds move in certain directions. ![]() Because of gravity, you don’t feel that you’re moving 1600 kilometers per hour while you sit still, right? Because that’s the speed of the Earth spinning, assuming you live near the equator (the speed is much slower if you live closer to the North and South Pole).īut the Earth’s spinning does have an effect on how you see the clouds moving because its spin affects the wind, even in high altitudes. While the Earth’s spinning does have an effect, you’re not seeing the Earth spinning. Rather, it’s supposed to be the Earth spinning around and what we actually see is the sky spinning around the clouds, not the other way around. Are Clouds Moving or Is the Earth Just Spinning? Image via Unsplash user NASAĪ big misconception a lot of people have is that when you see clouds move, they’re not actually moving. In this article, we’re going to explain why clouds move and how wind determines the speed of how fast (or slow) clouds move and how that also determines clouds’ shape. What you’re looking at is actually the product of condensed water vapor being blown away by the atmosphere in the sky. The truth, however, is that clouds aren’t actively moving on their own. ![]() Other times, you might have also seen a cloud visibly moving across the sky. Sometimes, you might see them moving ever so slightly, like you wouldn’t notice they were moving until you looked away and looked back up a few minutes later. If you’ve ever been outside on a fairly cloudy day, you might have noticed that clouds hardly ever stay still. ![]()
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