If you see a thick cloud in the sky that doesn't move when other clouds are,what does it mean?
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Your mind is the greatest portal to the past. Beyond that little is presently known about the possibility of going beyond temporal boundries.\n\nThere are 4 types of clouds. It sounds ridiculously simple, but there are low clouds, middle clouds, high clouds, and of course, clouds with extensive vertical development. \n\nThe non-moving cloud may have been in a different layer. The wind does not always blow the same at different heights.\n\nAnother possibility is that the cloud was an artifact of the right combo of temperature, sun and wind relative to a big mountain or lake or some other big geographical quirk.\n\nFor instance, imagine the wind blowing over a lake that is near a mountain. The warm, moist air comes off the lake toward a mountain. Since the wind can't go though the mountain it has to go over. But its cooler at higher levels so the water vapor condenses and you see a cloud. Clouds already in existence would appear to move normally while this one stays put.\n\nHawks are examples of birds that are highly skilled at detecting and taking advantage of rising air currents. Once they find rising air, they can float and float and float upwards and upwards without much need to flap their wings
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Clouds aren't just random droplets of water. What they are is tiny droplets of water that have condensed from water vapor in areas where the conditions (temperature, air pressure and humidity) are exactly right. Anywhere where you have the correct combination of these conditions, you'll get a cloud. Anywhere that you don't, you don't.\n\nAreas with this kind of conditions don't occur in random tiny places. Instead, there will be a large area of one condition that gradually shifts into another. (If this doesn't make sense, think of just temperature. You don't get a different temperature at every spot on the globe. Instead, you get a large area of warm air that gradually shifts into a large area of cooler air. The same is true for air pressure and humidity.) This is why you get a large area of 'cloud' in one place and nothing at all in another. You can think of clouds as being physical maps of the weather conditions in the sky.\n\nThis is also what holds the clouds up. In general, if a cloud is high up in the sky, the conditions just below it aren't right for the cloud to form. As the water droplets fall, they reach areas with the wrong temperature or pressure and evaporate again. Only if the clouds become densely packed enough for the water to form large enough droplets can the droplets fall to the ground. Not all clouds form high up, either... sometimes the right conditions can occur at groundlevel, giving us fog.
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This question is difficult to answer because is diffuclt to define things precisely. If we consider cumulus clouds we gotta consider they are different sizes and some are broken in more pieaces. But there are many types of clouds , like for example consider the nimbus clouds (storm clouds) that might cover the whole of the sky for an area 100 kilometres \nin any direction.\nTalking about the weight of a cloud is not sure what the meaning is. Are we referring to just the weight of the ice crystals in the cloud, or do we also include the weight of the air contained in the cloud. \nHowever the  avarage weight of a cloud can be determined or more corectly said estimated in 2 ways . \nThe first and easiest is by thinking about the rainfall it might. For example, studies showed that  a volume of 200 000 cubic metres of water would weigh 200 000 tonnes \nproduce.\nThe other way of estimating the weight of the cloud is a bit harder and it considers the water content of the parcel of air it comes from. For example, studies showed that the ice in a lump of cloud that comes from an air parcel about 1 km long by 1 km wide by 200 m thick turns out to weigh 1 600 to 3 200 tonnes.\nIf you have ever looked at satellite photographs of cloud, you will have seen tropical cyclones (hurricanes), where a bank of unbroken cloud stretches for perhaps 300 to 500 km or even 1000 km in all directions from the centre of the storm. If you regard these as single clouds, then they are huge. Wispy, high altitude clouds, on the other hand, can be really very thin and light.
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It measures the density of cumulative clouds. Good Luck !  :)
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Clouds are tiny droplets of water that have condensed on condensation nuclei such as pollen, dust, ash, & pollution in the troposphere.\n\nB/c they are very tiny and independant of each other, they tend to be suspended. This is due to various things such as updrafts, winds, etc. They are very lightweight. Only when they begin to start growing in size will gravity take over & they start to fall as rain.
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Actually, it is the rotation of the earth that causes weather and then clouds.\nThe clouds move across the sky as a result of differences in heat between regions. All of the matter around the earth is held to it by gravity. However, clouds "float" in air. So they will move at slightly different speeds. \n\nEver watch when they stir a milkshake? the different colors all swirl similarly.
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Losing yourself in the skies and clouds are natures gift to us. I've seen objects, faces and "calming" designs. Cloud formations are majestic, serene, power and forces you to daydream and go to places only in your heart and mind. Clouds bring out the best in ones mind and with its changing of texture and color warn us of danger. A great "present" given to all by Mother nature.Give thanks, enjoy it and protect it.
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There are a couple of reasons that work together to explain this situation. The first one has to do with how raindrops form. \n\nNow, it may seem silly to make such an obvious statement as, "Rain always falls from clouds." But once it has been said, we can then ask, "What is going on inside those clouds?" And that question leads us to plenty of relevant information! \n\nDo you remember the last time your local weather was described as being "hot and humid"? Do you remember what it FELT like? Do you also remember what the air LOOKED like? The reason I am asking these questions is because it is important to know that ordinary water is commonly found in one of three forms: solid, liquid, or gas. The liquid form is what we call "water", while the solid form we call "ice", and the gas form we call "water vapor". Water vapor is colorless, odorless, and invisible. But you sure can FEEL it on a hot and humid day! \n\nNext, do you remember the last time you encountered some fog? Think about what IT looked like. If you looked real close, you would have seen zillions of tiny tiny droplets of water floating in the air. And, if you remember the last time you saw some steam, you might think that it looked just like fog (except it was hotter). Steam is NOT pure water vapor! \n\nWell, it happens that the description, "zillions of tiny tiny droplets of water floating in the air", applies to every fog, to every mist, to every burst of steam -- and to every cloud in the sky. If you sit back and simply watch the clouds for a while, you will see that some clouds grow, some shrink, and some do nothing but move across the sky. What is happening to the growing or shrinking clouds? When a cloud grows, water vapor in the air gradually "condenses" to form lots more tiny tiny droplets. When a cloud shrinks, many droplets are completely "evaporating" to become invisible water vapor. \n\nAs the winds move air across the sky, carrying clouds along, fragments of wind known as "eddys" can do strange things to the shapes of clouds. A common game is to study a cloud's shape and guess what it looks like. Also, winds from different directions can collide with each other, which often has great effects upon clouds. It depends on how cold or warm the colliding winds are, and how much water each wind carries (only the differences matter, not whether the water is in the form of vapor or tiny drops). \n\nFor rain to happen, the weather conditions inside the clouds, and surrounding them, has to cause the droplets to grow. Some droplets will grow by colliding and combining with each other -- just what you Asked about. Some droplets will grow by acquiring more and more water vapor from the air. Some will do both. But the important thing to remember now is that MOST of the droplets in the clouds grow at the same time! \n\nBUT, the droplets do not all grow at the same rate; some grow faster than others. As soon as ANY get big enough, they start to fall out of the cloud. Water is heavier than air, after all. Depending on the wind conditions, those first raindrops might be blown back up into the cloud, where they can grow some more. Eventually, however, they get too big to stay up in the air, so they fall all the way to the ground. And the slower-growing droplets will fall after them, and the slower-growing-yet droplets will fall after THEM, and so on. This is the essence of the raining process. \n\nAs I said at the start, there are a couple of reasons why the raindrops don't combine to make a single stream. The first reason is simply that raindrops start falling just as soon as they are too heavy to stay in the air. The second reason is that they are all falling together DOWNWARDS, not sideways. If the wind blows them sideways, they all move TOGETHER sideways. That isn't good enough to cause them to meet each other, while falling, so they could combine to form a si
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Clouds are mists of water droplets that have condensed out of water vapour at "dewpoint", which is dependent on temperature, pressure, and humidity.\n\nThere is no intelligence or knowing involved.\n\nClouds don't fly, they are blown by the wind.
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It has to do with moisture saturation.  Big tall clouds have this unlike the thin high cirrus clouds.
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Could be a strange mirage. Sometimes weird mirage can project skyline of cities beyond horizon or just strange shapes in sky when atmosphere refract lights in unusual ways.
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We have air around us. The atmosphere has high preasure and low preasure. When the high preasure area turns into low preasure, the air moves from high preasure area towards the low preasure. This movement of air from one area to another causes the wind. \n\nIt has nothing to do with clouds. The faster the low preasure area is formed, depends on whether you have clouds, or thunderstorms. Low preasure areas causes rain. This is why normally you have winds before the rain.
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If it was on the ground it wouldn't be fog it would be water.  The sky begins immediately above the ground.  So fog is in the sky.
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- The sun rises in the east and sets in the west.\n\n- If there is broken cloud in the morning we may look to the west and see red light reflecting back from the cloud, i.e. 'red sky in the morning'. As the clouds are coming towards us there must be a chance of rain, at least an increased chance compared with the cloudless period we had just enjoyed.\n\n- Likewise for 'red sky at night'. If we see red clouds in the evening they will be in the east and have already passed us by, giving a good chance of clear skies and fine weather ahead.
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clouds are like blankets they try to keep u warm without a blanket you get real cold at night.
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The shape is completely random, based on how air currents (wind and updrafts) are moving around and inside the cloud. You get so many cloud shapes over time that a few random patterns are bound to resemble something else we're familiar with, such as a heart or a dog.
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It IS the amount of atmosphere, but primarily because of the refraction it causes.\n\nThink of it as looking through a rainbow from the side.  As light travels through dense layers of air, it bends, and the different colors in white light emerge.