You lost me right at the beginning: Fog? Are you for real? All those magical images in foggy terrain. It's the only way for normal people to be inside a cloud. Come on! It's like A tier!
@trustnugget2802 жыл бұрын
As a photographer especially it's S tier easily!
@samgrainger15542 жыл бұрын
I was visiting a castle on a hill and then the fog rolled in underneath the bit of the hill the castle was on leaving a sea of cloud with magical little islands poking out. The fog was moving so it was like we were in a castle ship sailing. Theres also something about driving though thick fog when youre little and the world becomes only that inside your car which only ever happened when my fam was traveling to meet extended family. The existance of fog is the only thing that makes the render distance on some games not seem super jarring. S teir for atmosphere. E teir for safe driving.
@joansparky44392 жыл бұрын
Yep, fog is cool. I loved it in Lotus 3 back inth e day and love it every year just before the wet-season hits and I can do it life - driving on a windy road through fog 🙂
@bastiengirschig72132 жыл бұрын
I wholeheartedly agree. Fog also gives depth to a landscape, and can make it look like an amazing real-life japanese print. S-Tier
@noergelstein2 жыл бұрын
As someone who lives in a place where the fog season is starting, it gets old really fast.
@SimonClark2 жыл бұрын
Damn the fog defenders are coming out of the woodwork
@VernonSwanepoel2 жыл бұрын
Yup! I was a tour guide in the Namib desert, where did drives an incredible ecosystem, complete with fog basking beetles! Fog, to me, is amazing stuff 😁
@FirstDagger2 жыл бұрын
Fog tier list when?
@MrLeafeater2 жыл бұрын
A very, VERY, low-hanging cloud concealed our approach. Fog for the win!
@anonymouslee20612 жыл бұрын
I really depends on the type of fog. Fog that forms in lakes or valleys is easily a or s tier!
@frozenweevil40222 жыл бұрын
fog is the best cloud 😠 just imagine fog and stratoformus
@ripple1232 жыл бұрын
so im a software engineer and I was half expecting a tierlist of cloud datacenters like AWS, Azure, GCP etc 😅
@x265_hevc52 жыл бұрын
Same. I'm using AWS right now. But I was working with GCP last year. I was hoping to see how it has improved :(
@weeb0.2 жыл бұрын
SAMEEEE LMAOOOOOO
@AntonoirJacques2 жыл бұрын
Azure certified. I was disappointed this was about actual clouds
@11alekon2 жыл бұрын
you are not the only one 😅
@sadatarefinrafat2 жыл бұрын
Yes, I first thought maybe he's joking and will move to cloud computing topic after a minute or two, but he seriously talked about clouds
@ink39882 жыл бұрын
Fog is rad, don't @ me Looking down from high place onto a sea of fog, with hills poking through is awesome, and the light from buildings getting refracted through is magical. Love fog and mist.
@speedyjay022 жыл бұрын
i can't stand for this fog slander
@likebot.2 жыл бұрын
He mist the beauty of fog LOL
@Vabe72 жыл бұрын
Dear Simon, I cannot express how profoundly hurt and utterly disillusioned I felt when I saw you placing that beautiful, mysterious, romantic Fog card at the bottom of your list. (Ok-ok, I know that they're not as impressive from a scientific perspective, but the sheer emotional connection to them must at least put them in B tier!) Apart from this, great video! 😄
@pattheplanter2 жыл бұрын
Fog made studying clouds really easy for early scientists. Also, S tier for every wondrous mysterious night fog I have walked through. Especially the freezing fog that left my long hair and beard totally white, surprising me rather when I looked in a mirror immediately on returning home.
@schnauzpig2 жыл бұрын
Agree, also fog looks amazing from above when it collects in the valleys.
@spaghettification86582 жыл бұрын
only this man could make a video about literal clouds this entertaining
@vigilantcosmicpenguin87212 жыл бұрын
Never underestimate the ability of science nerds to make anything exciting.
@zvezdazvijezda35942 жыл бұрын
then you dont know many physicists
@ladywhyasker2 жыл бұрын
Finding out that I have stronger opinions on clouds than expected :D
@SimonClark2 жыл бұрын
you and me both, apparently I touched a lot of nerves with this one
@ladywhyasker2 жыл бұрын
@@SimonClark I cannot deny that I disagreed with a lot of the rankings, especially of the humble common cloud. Despite its label, I think we can find more magic in everyday elements
@vigilantcosmicpenguin87212 жыл бұрын
I didn't even know I _had_ opinions about clouds until now.
@ladywhyasker2 жыл бұрын
@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 Well, I knew that I love them so I was one step ahead of you ;D Now we can both appreciate our favourites more!
@leif10752 жыл бұрын
@@SimonClark Hey Simon. Thanks for sharing. I hope you could respond to my other physics question on your other video when you can..thanks very much.
@ManishKumarMishra60162 жыл бұрын
I love Cirrus, they make sky look like a painting with some elegant brush strokes. For me it is blasphemous to put them below cumulus mediocris :D
@dkaloger57202 жыл бұрын
Agreed
@yuvalne2 жыл бұрын
+
@vavakxnonexus2 жыл бұрын
Between Noctilucent and Cirrus, wispy clouds are really getting underappreciated
@vigilantcosmicpenguin87212 жыл бұрын
I was rooting for cirrus; I felt quite dismayed when Simon ranked it so low. I just think they look pretty.
@YounesLayachi2 жыл бұрын
They're non-event fake clouds. They don't do anything... They don't even block the raging UV fire of the sun !
@otsokivivuori7726 Жыл бұрын
As a glider pilot, I am particularly fond of the humble cumulus mediocris. Those rising warm air currents that you mentioned form the clouds, we call thermals and they are what allows us to stay airborne for hours with no engine power at all. So if on a fair summers day you see a sky full of well defined cumulus clouds, you now know that that is what both us glider pilots and large birds consider the best of the best for flying.
@Dhoko2 жыл бұрын
Cumulonimbus fan here, I LOVE them... they look amazing and gives me such a good summer vibe. As a pilot student I shouldn't like them since they are really violent but they are just amazing
@humanwritescode2 жыл бұрын
I love the Alex Smith photo. Fantastic. Also, I wonder what impact geographic location and culture would have on cloud preferences. As some one who lives in an area where rain is infrequent and skies are mostly blue with wispy clouds - I would rate almost all of the dark, blanket-like clouds in S tier.
@joonzville2 жыл бұрын
Totally agree. I live in a similar climate and the rare gray blanket covering the sky can be glorious!
@Hoovin2 жыл бұрын
I totally agree, surprise Al's Miffy is always welcome
@MrSam24502 жыл бұрын
Dear Dr Mr Weather Man I am very sad that you have put my favourite cloud, Fog, in F tier. I will be lodging a formal complaint with the Weather College of Wizards. You would see me shake my head if it were not obscured by all the Fog in Cambridge. But I guess this what you get with a Oxf*rd Weather man. This was a very fun video
@engineeringvision95072 жыл бұрын
Both Universities are full of awful snobs. Thankfully it keeps the worst in society in two places so the disease doesn't spread.
@kendrajohnson65352 жыл бұрын
Woah!! OK, if there are 100+ types of clouds we *definitely* need a Part 2 of this video! It was unexpectedly gripping - clouds might be my new favourite subject after watching this! Gutted that cirrus ranked so low though - I adore wispy cirrus clouds!!
@likebot.2 жыл бұрын
Subjectve indeed. Fog is the most magical and wondrous of clouds to me. The bottom of my tier is that grey homologous sheet casting a cold drizzle that promises to never end, ecompassing seemingly the entire earth in a blanket of cold gloom (nimbostratus?), which also makes me whistful, take long walks and to get lost in my imagination. Oh dear... I'm hopeless. Bring on the misery and see me pine for the old days on the Nova Scotia seaside.
@aidanderby58032 жыл бұрын
I think that Fog may not be a high tier cloud because its at the surface, but is otherwise amazingg - i love walking on a foggy night when you can see the light from street lamps dispersed
@dansandoval93302 жыл бұрын
This is the nerdiest fun I've had on a while. Love it
@bork92312 жыл бұрын
I have to mention the best cloud in my opinion : Stratospheric Polar Cloud, displaying a rainbow color thanks to ices and chemicals which they are made of. Saw that in Finnish Lapland last year, trully magical
@fshbulb12 жыл бұрын
Just googled it and yes. Just yes.
@pattheplanter2 жыл бұрын
@@fshbulb1 I just duckduckgoed it with a similar result. Speechless from the beauty.
@kendrajohnson6535 Жыл бұрын
Re-watching this in April 2023 and it still hurts that beautiful cirrus clouds got put in D tier 😢 Still think we need a part 2 of this video!
@austria43rd842 жыл бұрын
My favorite cloud formation is definitely Kelvin-Helmholtz. A formation that can form picturesque wave-like clouds, formed by velocity shear in a fluid. Seen everywhere from gas giants like Jupiter to the surface of stars to, obviously, clouds on earth. It's a shame they're so rare and don't often last long.
@dominictarrsailing Жыл бұрын
shocked when you put cirrus at D! you better follow this up with some pretty impressive clouds
@antonzub6722 жыл бұрын
Fogs are cool. They make the wine taste good
@loopinglui0022 жыл бұрын
Hi Simon, can you please also do a Ranking of cloud service providers on how (un-)sustainable they are and/or where the emissions occur in their businesses? Would be great! :)
@1gewinnertwitch6812 жыл бұрын
I thought this a ranking about cloud computing and not actual clouds, still cool video
@Thoran6662 жыл бұрын
Ultimate Question: How smooth would a shave with a Henson razor feel when performed inside a Cumulonimbus flammagenitus?
@Flummiification2 жыл бұрын
the ranking was pretty arbitrary but made the topic more interesting. the topic itself was very good and nerdy so I liked it a lot
@RonnieAttema2 жыл бұрын
Sorry, but this video is factually incorrect. The mesosphere is not the most boring layer of the atmosphere, that title definitely goes to the stratosphere as the mesosphere has the auroras, by far the coolest atmospheric phenomena
@pattheplanter2 жыл бұрын
Is an aurora an ionic cloud formation shepherded by solar winds? Prejudice against non-watery clouds?
@1.41422 жыл бұрын
You forgot about undulatus asperatus, ice fog, polar stratospheric clouds (lower than noctilucent), smog, fractus, virga, and fluctus (Kelvin-Helmholtz waves).
@AmaraJordanMusic2 жыл бұрын
Yeah I was hoping to see undulatus asperatus as well!
@YounesLayachi2 жыл бұрын
Lemme google all these thanks
@YounesLayachi2 жыл бұрын
Wikipedia says noctilucent clouds are the highest, higher than PSCs. You might be confusing 85 km (kilometres !!!) = the height of noctilucent clouds, with "82,000 ft" , which is only 25 km = maximum height of PSCs. Noctilucent are in the mesosphere, whereas PSC are polar Stratospheric clouds
@IlluminatiBG2 жыл бұрын
Fog might be F-tier, but the formation of fog in a cold-humid-winter weather over mountain forest, where you can see the traces of fog spanning from the top of the trees is S-tier (although I don't know if it is considered a cloud).
@HenrikMyrhaug2 жыл бұрын
Dude, the experience of climbing a foggy mountain, and exiting the top of the cloud to see a layer of clouds with a few mountain peaks sticking through... It is just so magical. Fog is amazing! Also, the ominous, creepy vibe of a foggy day is just amazing.
@mudgetheexpendable2 жыл бұрын
I feel so lucky that, growing up in the US Southwest, I've seen every single one except noctilucent. Fun and interesting video, thank you.
@GymGirl882 жыл бұрын
Your S tier is accurate, however!! The cumulos medicrous (sp?) Is my favorite cloud too. I love looking across the horizon and seeing fluffy clouds resting on "glass". The are especially beautiful at sunset
@SharkaOfSea2 жыл бұрын
Cirrus is at least A tier! It's so pretty! *_* And it's my most favourite cloud, since I learnt its name more than 20 years ago.
@ProfessorRex2 жыл бұрын
I really enjoyed watching this video! There is something happening special about listening to someone passionately talk about the things they find interesting! I also just finished the new Nebula release, holy cow, chills
@karha88882 жыл бұрын
Here is the best unthinkable tier list I wanted to see 😆Honestly, I am glad you did this video! I'm happy, I'm not the only one to be amazed by clouds. Clouds are amazing, they create so beautiful landscape and pictures, especially during storms or sunsets. And, as lots of people here, I would have put fog higher in the list because of the ambiance and atmosphere they create. The last not least reason is because it's the easiest way to be inside one cloud too, and that is really cool😌Anyway, thanks for the video!
@YounesLayachi2 жыл бұрын
4:25 One of my most vivid memories at a toddlerish age was the sight of stratocumulus floccus (edit : or it might have been closer to altocumulus. Bright white and pretty uniform) , near perfectly divided like a grid in the sky. Boggled my mind, never seen such thing again
@patrickjarvis38342 жыл бұрын
"These are depressing, but they're a bit more dramatic about it, so I'm going to put them up a tier". I don't know why, but this really got me.
@te.le.gram_Elegance_YT2 жыл бұрын
Thank you ✌️for watching and leaving a comment, Send a message via TELEGRAM to acknowledge your Prize.🏆🔥
@reddeadeaglet56722 жыл бұрын
How have I been into meterology for as long as I can remember and only now found your channel! Great video btw.
@word63442 жыл бұрын
Pyrocumulus are the dragons of clouds
@eliaspohl57412 жыл бұрын
Damn we have a fog hater did not expect that
@aidanteall71862 жыл бұрын
My personal favorite is Altocumulus Castellanus -- the hallmark of all good warm season thunderstorms!
@te.le.gram_Elegance_YT2 жыл бұрын
Thank you ✌️for watching and leaving a comment, Send a message via TELEGRAM to acknowledge your Prize.🏆🔥
@TheMrPits Жыл бұрын
Love the video, glad to get all the names of the clouds I watch but never quite remember the exact name. Comment on Pyrocumulonimbus Clouds though being "rare".... relative to most places on the east coast or Europe, sure rare, but the mountain west, or any area with lots of fires, more common than one may think. I'll see a dozen a year while out camping or just from the road side. And if you want to see these grow throughout the mid morning, then explode during the afternoon, turn the Goes West weather satellite on during Aug or Sept. They are plainly visible and the way they blow up when the afternoon sun and wind hit is just amazing. You'll even see streams of smoke taking on different styles of clouds drifting hundreds of miles. Ever wonder where that smoke in the are is actually coming from, turn on the Goes West.... (mutters... how many times the local news is wrong about where it's coming from is way to common)
@thesilentone40242 жыл бұрын
We should reduce are parking lots by 50% since they take up 25 to 30% of citys land use. Parking garages can have same or more parking spots and free up land they can even have batteries on first floor and solar or wind on top. The new land can be used for green spaces to help reduce flooding heat wind and energy demand in the city.
@elementalsheep26722 жыл бұрын
Fog is beautiful when you see it sitting in a valley at sunrise!
@epicdiamonds52 жыл бұрын
Call me biased, but I once saw Stratocumulus Floccus during sun set, and it was so beautiful I had a philosophical revalation about the universe. It lasted for about 5 minutes but it was still a really cool looking cloud.
@ShaoVideoProduction2 жыл бұрын
Putting LeagalEagle in B Tier is libelous!
@pattheplanter2 жыл бұрын
Come on, it hardly counts as a beard, just stubble with a little attitude.
@idraote2 жыл бұрын
I love cumuli mediocres. They may be common but they're lovely. But I do love pyrocumuli too, I admit.
@NortherlyK2 жыл бұрын
I love the ad read. So good.
@Ondrej_Mottl_2 жыл бұрын
I am following Simon for some time and I was very excited that he will rank data cloud services. A prime example of my work deformation...
@Oltoir2 жыл бұрын
That transition into the add was *chef's kiss*
@TilfordM2 жыл бұрын
5:12 What happened to the chart????
@eliaspohl57412 жыл бұрын
Yes! I was waiting for cumulonimbus and im happy we agree, not with every cloud but shout out comulonimbus. Great video 8.5/10 ratin🔥
@banzobotic2 жыл бұрын
I can't believe that nacreous clouds are missed off the list. Photographs of them look more like an oil painting than a real photo of clouds.
@disaster_chief Жыл бұрын
When you first saw Cirrostratus, were you blinded by its majesty?
@chikentori2 жыл бұрын
Lost me as soon as fog was sent to F tier... And I was excited, too!
@fejfo65592 жыл бұрын
I think tier list should look like normal distributions, yours is so top heavy
@cepsep49292 жыл бұрын
now THIS is the content i subscribed for
@robertohexsel3763 Жыл бұрын
do they (Henson) make razor re-sharpeners? My grand-dad had one ad it was a great piece of hardware: it was a two-halves of (exceedingly fine) whetstone strung with two pieces of string. the old blade would go between the halves, and as one pulled the contraption back and forth, the blade would be re-sharpened as it was "swung" in between the sharpening stones.
@DannyHatcherTech2 жыл бұрын
12 minutes of cloud talk kept me engaged... proof you have done a good job 😁
@pauljordan30642 жыл бұрын
Great video and really interesting info, Thanks!
@HamHamDude2 жыл бұрын
I like how you just casually mentioned how clouds on other planets can be made of methane like it was no big deal. Ever thought of making a tier list of weather on other planets? I heard of this one planet in another solar system that rains glass sideways
@Lambda_Ovine2 жыл бұрын
Astrum made a video about what is apparently the rarest type of clouds, the Undulatus Asperitas clouds, and honestly, after watching some footage and seeing how they make the sky look like an upside down ocean... those gotta be SS tear
@YounesLayachi2 жыл бұрын
Fog is very cool, only rated F because you can't see its shape and contours, but when it's dense enough, it's basically ground level clouds ! Touch it, hide in it, pretend you're in an enchanted forest or alien world, natural fog machine, the possibilities are endless
@YounesLayachi2 жыл бұрын
I say this as someone who rarely experiences fog, but I understand the brits are tired of it xD
@leestuurmans28372 жыл бұрын
All I've ever wanted is a cloud tier list video.
@nassimabiza77892 жыл бұрын
Hello, question; are certain clouds more common across certain climate systems or latitutes? Thanks!
@greeny10332 жыл бұрын
Holy crap, I never considered the fact that cumulonimbus actually indicated the different layers of the atmosphere because of how large it is; thats facinating. An an ocean physicist I should have assumed as much haha
@klimajulius78542 жыл бұрын
Hey Simon. This is a cloud tier list, not an atmospheric layer tier list, so MOVE NOCTOLUCENTS TO S-Tier! Especially given, that most of your S tier is B tier tops!
@samgrainger15542 жыл бұрын
Stratocumulous stratoformus is my fav cloud and weather
@OldShatterham2 жыл бұрын
I never thought watching someone geek out over clouds for over 10 minutes could be entertaining but here I am...
@VisionaryJaneVods2 жыл бұрын
This is everything I’ve ever wanted and more
@Dth0912 жыл бұрын
Alternative title: "Are cumulonimbus OP?"
@vigilantcosmicpenguin87212 жыл бұрын
Rainstorms are too strong of an ability, please nerf.
@MrARock0012 жыл бұрын
Glad volcanoes got a showing! I would have added pyroclastic to the S-tier, given they are the most dangerous/deadly of all cloud types.
@tadhgtwo2 жыл бұрын
Watch this and the mares tail comes up and you cut to a horse tail. All I can think is that horses tail needs to be washed. 12 years with an equestrian has ruined me.
@petersilie6482 жыл бұрын
Never knew i needed a cloud tier list in my life
@thelastcube.2 жыл бұрын
he should've had the tiers as cloud 0 to cloud 9
@lugriaa2 жыл бұрын
my dumb head thinking this'd be a tier list for cloud services, but i still watched the whole video - very interesting!!
@loudcloud14992 жыл бұрын
mammatus clouds are less formed by under belly turbulence and exist more as a 'density overhang'. this is due to ice and water particles falling out of the cumulus anvil cloud into dry air and then sublimating or evaporating, a process which pulls heat from the environment and cools the air producing an unstable density gradient [Schultz et al 2006 cited by Ravichandran et al 2020].
@vigilantcosmicpenguin87212 жыл бұрын
Things are heating up in the cloud fandom. Not just heating up... evaporating!
@thelastcube.2 жыл бұрын
The editing is just 🤌🤌🤌
@katiemoss75782 жыл бұрын
This is my favourite kind of video and comments section doesn’t matter at all all subjective but will cause the funniest pointless fights in the comments
@ilke31922 жыл бұрын
If cirrostratus isn't S tier than I don't want it Edit: Only C tier? My disappointment is immeasurable, and my day is ruined. :') Though you put arcus in S tier so I guess it's fine.
@Zelmel2 жыл бұрын
Dr. Simon Clark doing a cheeky ranking video?! Now we need a collab with the Hat boiks at their ranking wall!
@0xCAFEF00D2 жыл бұрын
2:35 Assuming I understand what they are they're my favorite when they're over someone else kilometers away and it's really sunny. Then they're beautiful. So dramatic.
@yakumorisuke9403 Жыл бұрын
I'm fascinated by the use of the word 'species' to describes these different types of cloud - does anyone know why that's the word to use?
@FirstDagger2 жыл бұрын
My guy did fog and cirrus clouds dirty.
@lilcrowlet18022 жыл бұрын
Excellent vid, loved it!
@cassandrasinclair87222 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the laughs Dr Mr Weather Man!
@平和-v1z2 жыл бұрын
This was a fun one to watch
@wrog2682 жыл бұрын
What about mushroom clouds?
@xtieburn2 жыл бұрын
Fog in F tier... Huh, I didnt realise Clark was an unrepentant monster.
@QuintonMurdock2 жыл бұрын
Strato formus are one of my favorite but overall I like all clouds. I like rain and I dislike sunshiny days. I moved to Portland for a reason
@steenbokmds-5902 жыл бұрын
No mention for the newly added cloud formation to a list? The asperitas clouds.
@vigilantcosmicpenguin87212 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I think they look so cool. Out of all the cloud types, asperitas makes the best desktop wallpaper.
@ivoryowl2 жыл бұрын
Hey! Don't diss fog! Silent Hill wouldn't be the same without it. As for my favorite type... I like foggy and overcast days. I don't care what kind of cloud it is, so long as it covers the sky... but I'll give it extra points if there's a "god's spotlight" or "shinning beam of light" in there too.
@ethitlan2 жыл бұрын
What about the Imperial cumulus cloud
@1.41422 жыл бұрын
So many coastal desert ecosystems rely on fog
@samedjones2 жыл бұрын
This isn't the video I asked for but I'm so damn greatful I got it
@GeniusLad322 жыл бұрын
You're wrong right off the bat. Fog is incredible.
@adamwilding95202 жыл бұрын
I will pay actual money to get an extended version
@sophiesmith47802 жыл бұрын
amazing. top tier.
@MrLeafeater2 жыл бұрын
Totally wrong about fog. (Clarity: Fog is the only cloud I can touch and be within it...it's like flying.)