How do clouds work?

0  2017-08-03 by factsnotfeelings

According to the textbooks, they are made of tiny water droplets. But is this plausible?

How could water droplets float on air?

When a plane goes through a cloud, it experiences turbulence, which suggests that the cloud is more dense than the surrounding air...

Yet if the cloud is floating on the surrounding air, then surely it must be less dense?

Why do rain clouds become darker? Water is transparent, so surely the rainclouds should be the same colour as normal clouds?

Clouds are a mystery...

If you'd like to read more, please see my full article on my blog.

I discuss how clouds/rain relate to atmospheric electricity and why rain changes the electrical charge of the ground.

I also have a theory on how clouds produce rain.

55 comments

you high as shit

lmao

came to say this

Clouds come from the spheres. Think of them as God's voice.

Nah mate, he'll only get the answer he wants by asking the conspiracy community

I also have a theory on how clouds produce rain.

Bro, so does the scientific community

Once I buy a phase contrast microscope, I will be able to see for myself if cell biology is real.

And yes, the periodic table is fraudulent. There is no equipment which can count electrons in a substance.

I honestly can't tell if you're being serious or not

I'm completely serious.

Everything we know about chemistry was determined by trial and error.

The periodic table is just a series of made up numbers. No experiment or piece of equipment can show that a single atom of graphite/carbon contains 12 electrons.

Phase contrast microscopes are the most powerful kind of optical microscopes, this is the only way to view living tissue without having to stain it first.

It's not difficult to see cells with a simple microscope. What replaces cells?

You sound like you're one step away from flat earth

These are good questions. The explanation of clouds doesn't make sense

lol ooooooooo k buddy. all you guys posting this silliness have lost it.

"tide comes in, tide goes out. you can't explain that!" - Bill O'Reilly

How does the water evaporation explanation make sense? Why do they turn dark and grey before and during a storm?

oh dear... rain clouds are grey instead of white because of their thickness, or height. That is, a cloud gets thicker and denser as it gathers more water droplets and ice crystals — the thicker it gets, the more light it scatters, resulting in less light penetrating all the way through it.

not ONLY is this not rocket science... all of your silly questions can be answered with Google.

Before you post this shit... Google it. Then take the answer that is readily available to you and try to refute it.

Don't post these STUPID fucking questions here.

I don't believe clouds contain water droplets. How could water float on air?

Ok you've got to be trolling. This is the comment that did it for me

they are a total troll... posting this trash to discredit this sub.

That doesn't make sense

yes it does. just not to you.

I have a long list of things that you wouldn't understand apparently.

Except for that it does lol

How does it?

How do clouds make sense? Is that what you're asking me?

No the mainstream explanation for them doesn't

I guess I just disagree with you then - it makes sense to me, and to literally almost everyone else. Maybe do some more research? This seems like entry level stuff though

Thank you.

There's no evidence for the idea that clouds form by evaporating water over the oceans.

Logically speaking, if clouds formed from evaporation, then they should form just above the surface of the ocean.

The air on the ground is warmer than the air around clouds, so we should see more clouds at ground level, according to their theory.

Ok, but we can observe the fact that water does indeed evaporate. Where do you think that water goes if it doesn't become vapor in the air?

It just mixes in with the rest of the air. It doesn't become a cloud.

Then the air would become saturated with vapour, the oceans would dry up and there would be a runaway greenhouse effect. Why doesn't it rain from clouds? Because that's where the water vapour is...

Come on man.

Take the time to do a simple google search before you claim things are unknown or don't make sense.

https://www.livescience.com/39069-why-are-rain-clouds-dark.html

That is, a cloud gets thicker and denser as it gathers more water droplets and ice crystals — the thicker it gets, the more light it scatters, resulting in less light penetrating all the way through it.

That's the explanation given by the article. If a white cloud gains transparent water, it shouldn't suddenly turn grey.

If I pour water into a transparent balloon, would the balloon suddenly turn grey? No.

Why is a cloud white and not transparent then?

Why is a cloud white and not transparent then?

I have no idea. The mainstream explanation is that clouds are partially made of dust.

Maybe clouds are a different form of air. Ice is transparent at low temperatures, but as it warms up, it becomes opaque.

Maybe this is the kind of transformation which air goes through when it becomes a cloud.

Maybe clouds are completely different to air. I have no idea.

Yes I've read that water vapour molecules and tiny ice crystals can form around dust particles.

The explanation I have read is that water molecules scatter all wavelengths of light, thus appearing white. They appear darker the higher they are, or when they are more dense. Density is mass X volume, so if a cloud gathers more water vapour and mantains a similar volume then it's density increases. This increase causes more of the scattered wight light to be blocked and the cloud appears to darken.

Yes I've read that water vapour molecules and tiny ice crystals can form around dust particles.

The explanation I have read is that water molecules scatter all wavelengths of light, thus appearing white. They appear darker the higher they are, or when they are more dense. Density is mass X volume, so if a cloud gathers more water vapour and mantains a similar volume then it's density increases. This increase causes more of the scattered wight light to be blocked and the cloud appears to darken.

Yes I've read that water vapour molecules and tiny ice crystals can form around dust particles.

The explanation I have read is that water molecules scatter all wavelengths of light, thus appearing white. They appear darker the higher they are, or when they are more dense. Density is mass X volume, so if a cloud gathers more water vapour and mantains a similar volume then it's density increases. This increase causes more of the scattered wight light to be blocked and the cloud appears to darken.

Yes I've read that water vapour molecules and tiny ice crystals can form around dust particles.

The explanation I have read is that water molecules scatter all wavelengths of light, thus appearing white. They appear darker the higher they are, or when they are more dense. Density is mass X volume, so if a cloud gathers more water vapour and mantains a similar volume then it's density increases. This increase causes more of the scattered wight light to be blocked and the cloud appears to darken.

Yes I've read that water vapour molecules and tiny ice crystals can form around dust particles.

The explanation I have read is that water molecules scatter all wavelengths of light, thus appearing white. They appear darker the higher they are, or when they are more dense. Density is mass X volume, so if a cloud gathers more water vapour and mantains a similar volume then it's density increases. This increase causes more of the scattered wight light to be blocked and the cloud appears to darken.

Yes I've read that water vapour molecules and tiny ice crystals can form around dust particles.

The explanation I have read is that water molecules scatter all wavelengths of light, thus appearing white. They appear darker the higher they are, or when they are more dense. Density is mass X volume, so if a cloud gathers more water vapour and mantains a similar volume then it's density increases. This increase causes more of the scattered wight light to be blocked and the cloud appears to darken.

Yes I've read that water vapour molecules and tiny ice crystals can form around dust particles.

The explanation I have read is that water molecules scatter all wavelengths of light, thus appearing white. They appear darker the higher they are, or when they are more dense. Density is mass X volume, so if a cloud gathers more water vapour and mantains a similar volume then it's density increases. This increase causes more of the scattered wight light to be blocked and the cloud appears to darken.

Yes I've read that water vapour molecules and tiny ice crystals can form around dust particles.

The explanation I have read is that water molecules scatter all wavelengths of light, thus appearing white. They appear darker the higher they are, or when they are more dense. Density is mass X volume, so if a cloud gathers more water vapour and mantains a similar volume then it's density increases. This increase causes more of the scattered wight light to be blocked and the cloud appears to darken.

Yes I've read that water vapour molecules and tiny ice crystals can form around dust particles.

The explanation I have read is that water molecules scatter all wavelengths of light, thus appearing white. They appear darker the higher they are, or when they are more dense. Density is mass X volume, so if a cloud gathers more water vapour and mantains a similar volume then it's density increases. This increase causes more of the scattered wight light to be blocked and the cloud appears to darken.

Yes I've read that water vapour molecules and tiny ice crystals can form around dust particles.

The explanation I have read is that water molecules scatter all wavelengths of light, thus appearing white. They appear darker the higher they are, or when they are more dense. Density is mass X volume, so if a cloud gathers more water vapour and mantains a similar volume then it's density increases. This increase causes more of the scattered wight light to be blocked and the cloud appears to darken.

Yes I've read that water vapour molecules and tiny ice crystals can form around dust particles.

The explanation I have read is that water molecules scatter all wavelengths of light, thus appearing white. They appear darker the higher they are, or when they are more dense. Density is mass X volume, so if a cloud gathers more water vapour and mantains a similar volume then it's density increases. This increase causes more of the scattered wight light to be blocked and the cloud appears to darken.

Yes I've read that water vapour molecules and tiny ice crystals can form around dust particles.

The explanation I have read is that water molecules scatter all wavelengths of light, thus appearing white. They appear darker the higher they are, or when they are more dense. Density is mass X volume, so if a cloud gathers more water vapour and mantains a similar volume then it's density increases. This increase causes more of the scattered wight light to be blocked and the cloud appears to darken.

Yes I've read that water vapour molecules and tiny ice crystals can form around dust particles.

The explanation I have read is that water molecules scatter all wavelengths of light, thus appearing white. They appear darker the higher they are, or when they are more dense. Density is mass X volume, so if a cloud gathers more water vapour and mantains a similar volume then it's density increases. This increase causes more of the scattered wight light to be blocked and the cloud appears to darken.

Yes I've read that water vapour molecules and tiny ice crystals can form around dust particles.

The explanation I have read is that water molecules scatter all wavelengths of light, thus appearing white. They appear darker the higher they are, or when they are more dense. Density is mass X volume, so if a cloud gathers more water vapour and mantains a similar volume then it's density increases. This increase causes more of the scattered wight light to be blocked and the cloud appears to darken.

OK, so think of it this way. All those things are like little mirrors, they each reflect light, so it creates a funhouse of mirrors. This prevents light from passing through the object, thus you get the shadowy dark effect of certain clouds.

That's the point. The established explanation doesn't make sense

Why is snow white, but when viewed under a microscope snowflakes are transparent? Answer that, and you'll have your answer about clouds.

The air starts to cool as it rises higher into the sky, causing the water vapor to condense onto atmospheric dust from volcanoes, car exhaust and other sources. The resulting water droplets and ice crystals coalesce, or join together, to form clouds.

Clouds aren't just water. They have a lot of other solid particles as well as ice and snow in them which is why they are white. Storm clouds tend to be very tall which means light doesn't penetrate all the way through causing them to darken.

OK, so the occlusion of light that you get in a "clear balloon" would be minimal because the water is liquid and at it's most dense. When you freeze (into ice droplets) the crystal formations that are created are no longer transparent. The density of the mass of water, liquid in a balloon vs various states of matter in the cloud is what determines how transparent the mass of water is.

Yeah that doesn't make sense

What part doesn't make sense?

Fucking clouds. How do they work?

This might help you out a bit.

How This Artist Makes Perfect Clouds Indoors | WIRED

https://www.wired.com/2015/06/berdnaut-smilde-nimbus/

I'm not going to make fun of you like everyone else because your questions genuinely did make me think

I recommend reading about electric universe theory. I think clouds are created by plasma, grounding to earth, in dark discharge mode.

they are made of tiny water droplets.

I wouldn't call them droplets because they are smaller than that. Maybe call them "micro droplets". We do have mist nozzles that crate a "fog" of water at Disneyland and other parks. The droplets are so small that they move around like fog and air currents can sometimes carry them upward.

Also the water droplets in clouds get contaminated by dust and bacteria. There are scientists studying the whole bacterial ecosystem of the bacteria that just exist in cloud water droplets.

Now a guess on why some clouds are darker. Water refracts light so you see less light in more dense clouds, and this appears dark to your eyes.

Just look at the creation of a hailstone. A drop of water freezes but doesn't fall to earth. Instead it flies up and down in the cloud building up layers of new ice until it's the size of a golf ball. There's a lot of wind energy in a cloud.

No one likes to entertain ideas for fun anymore.

Your blog is incorrectly named.

Dude...please share...whatever it is that you have...it seems like it's amazing

Pick up a 5th grade science textbook, it will explain how clouds work.

What in the fuck is this?

Our natural world is filled with mystery and intrigue... The intricate systems that drive our world are not publicly known, although they are sometimes alluded to.

Nah mate, he'll only get the answer he wants by asking the conspiracy community