Using Droplet Physics To Explain Why Clouds Float

This video ignores a lot about the weather and only focuses on the dynamics of a droplet. With that said, this was original analysis so let me know if there was something I mist...

[@FTCM2011]

You missed an amazing fenómeno that is also responsible for cloud stability. As water vapor becomes water droplets, it releases heat thus creating updraft. Clouds sustain themselves in the air!

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Great addition, thanks for sharing!

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Side note from me as a glider student pilot: Not all clouds get formed by heated up air that is rising, but you can tell the difference and when you see a cloud that actually formed by rising warm air you know where to fly to keep flying in a glider Note: gliders dont have engines so need other means to stay afloat, they can just fall slower and while falling transfer potential energy to distance and heat from friction, as well as turbulence

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Phenomenon*

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I remember seeing a video a while ago, it was about a village in my country where some clouds were just falling slowly onto the high mountains and people were just amazed. They were picking up some off the fallen pieces of clouds and everything felt so real.

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So great explanation and interesting topic that I've never even thought about

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If tides are influenced by the Sun and the Moon, is there a tidal influence on the moisture in the atmosphere?

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[@wizengy]

The higher you go the colder it gets resulting in about 3 degrees F drop per thousand feet. Once vapor gets to a certain temp then water can condense out and begin to fall. Once it falls into the warmer altitudes it begins to evaporate into vapor again making it invisible. When the warmer updrafts move the air back up then it condenses out again. This keeps going until the cloud dissipates or the drops bump into enough other drops inside the updrafts of the cloud to form rain drops big enough to make it to the ground.

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[@ginargentum]

oh i never thought to ask this question, dope video! can you explain more regarding the updraft? does that mean there are only clouds where there is updraft?

[@JaDroppingScience]

The heat released during water condensation causes updraft, which I should have added to the video. I pinned a comment about this phenomenon. However, the air/water that rises from this heat (or from other air currents) eventually cools off. Then, there's no more updraft and we get into the falling droplet physics discussed in this video. Hope that helps!

[@ginargentum]

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[@isaachester8475]

I’ve always heard that the water droplets are “less dense” than the air and thus do not fall. That never made sense to me. This makes much more sense. Thank you!

[@Halimat2.0]

yeah since the density changes with the temperature not the size

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[@duzehalo]

I've learned a lot about clouds in school but the whole "droplets are always falling" is new to me. Huh, TIL!

[@johantaube3022]

Furthermore, as droplets fall through the atmosphere, pressure increases and the air's capability to store water increases. The droplets therefore often evaporate to vapor again before reaching the ground, explaining why not every cloud results in rain. This is also the reason to why clouds often have a flat underside: it's the point where the air pressure is high enough to store all available moisture present

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[@zacharytaylor190]

There's also a phenomenon called a virga, where the terminal velocity exceeds the updraft velocity, therefore precipitation. Before reaching the ground, the droplets evaporate or sublimate. This is common where there is a steep lapse rate and dry air under the cloud base. In freezing conditions, they cam pose an icing risk to aircraft that fly through them.

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I thought they were attached to strings

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Clouds WORK. I know for a fact they work somehow, and I don’t actually need to understand how they work or how they float in the air. However this video is STILL COOL and educational. Thanks for sharing!

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[@surfh3r0]

really interesting but it actually rised more question than i had before XD If i can't see water vapor... how come i can see the water vapor from a teapot or from a steam engine? the steam from a boiling pan push upside water droplet also if the temperature is over 100°? how can the water still be in liquid form?

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Sound is so quiet that I expected a jumpscare

[@interanaut31]

Clouds is just like fog in winter season.. Moisture in the air collected around the dust particles..

[@Scott-jk5zk]

I said this to my family and they looked at me like a crazy person, I'm like I know how clouds are formed but I still don't FEEL like they should exist like that's literal tonnes of water just floating in the sky

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If anybody wants a simplified understanding, It's basically because there's a vacuum in the atmosphere up there and therefore it can hold water in suspension up to a critical mass...

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My video is paused so guessing now that the water vapour is less dense than the oxygen particles in the atmosphere but the condensed water vapour is also more dense than the gases in the ozone layer

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that's why there flowing clouds exist right? No updraft?

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[@saxen0499]

So why do they turn gray when it rains

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If it wasn’t for air resistance, when it rains, the water would come down in one big sheet and crush everything

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Another obscure but obvious fact is that clouds have a smell. The smell depends on the ground below and if the cloud forms over a pine forest it smell like pine. Over a freshly plowed field it smell like the field. Avoid the clouds over the sewage treatment plant.

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[@mzg147]

Is water vapor really invisible?? But, but when you boil water I can see the vapor....

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I had my sound at MAX, and could barely hear. Just letting you know (also, kinda frustrated because i used to ask about this all the time as a kid, so i really wanted to understand, but literally couldn't hear enough to do so...

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Why do clouds have cool shapes?

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Hmm, what's the difference between clouds and virga?

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