☁️ What is a Cloud? Crash Course Geography #10

In addition to just being beautiful one-of-a-kind panoramas in the sky, clouds can tell us so much about how energy and weather patterns flow around the globe. Today, we'll talk about how clouds form, the three main types (cirrus, status, and cumulus), explain how and why we get rain, and end with a discussion on humidity and how high humidity can feel hot and sticky on a warm day but comfortable on a cold day. So join us and countless people throughout history and look up -- at the clouds!
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[@crashcourse]

Oh no! Y'all are absolutely right. In an effort to get another banana-reference in at 4:52 we did our conversions wrong. Food energy calories are kilocalories not regular "calories." So 5 bananas would be about 500kcal and would evaporate 1kg of water. -brandon

[@Khan_Fighter_2010]

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[@carlosfunes9397]

The mere title taught me something. I didn’t know clouds were geography.

[@xhosagibran370]

I normally don’t care for geography but for some reason this is so fascinating!

[@umpf6969]

So true

[@YIIMM]

*With regards to the calories* : I think you confused *regular calories* with *kilocalories* (which is what are used to measure food energy, confusingly mostly referred to as just "calories") . 5 bananas would be about 500kcal and would evaporate *1kg* of water. (Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, I only mention it because I've made this mistake in the past)

[@GeographyGeek]

Always look forward to these Geography videos

[@SunriseFireberry]

I've looked at clouds from both sides now From up and down and still somehow It's cloud's illusions I recall I really don't know clouds at all

[@ihatefrysauce]

What is a cloud but moisture preserving?

[@superskimaster9649]

Clouds r cool and you can’t change my mind

[@pelewads]

One desert survival method collects desert water vapor. You dig a hole in the sand, and line it with a piece of plastic. Cover that with a stretched piece of plastic on top, with a small rock in the center, to form a small cone. At night, when the temperature drops, the water vapor will condense on the top plastic. And drip into the bottom plastic. In the morning, you will have some water. An interesting practical use for the principles you are discussing.

[@tinmin7375]

Damn ethereal is a nice word audibly

[@messyhair42]

At 4:50 the "calories" representing the latent heat of vaporization is off by a factor of 1000, a food (C)alorie is 1000 (c)alories, the amount of energy required to heat one gram of water 1 degree Celsius

[@kristianprigl7895]

I started watch this Course because i love Geography. But now i hesitate. Geography is much more than i think and i really just like looks at map and see many different countries, city, continents, and beatiful diversity.

[@75egcg]

Everyone asks what is a cloud. Nobody asks HOW is the cloud 😢

[@Vonliktenstien]

"What is a cloud? A miserable pile of droplets. Have at you!"

[@RockSimmer-gal4God]

I thought red sky at night shepherds delight

[@alzobedeea4540]

Thanks for explaining 🌸

[@brianpan6453]

It is hot. The sky is blue. A little cloud comes looking for you. More clouds come. It may rain. I'll lose all my Google photos yet again!

[@LtNduati]

Describing clouds as dusty water was the least expected but most cherished take-away term from this week's video. I'm going to start calling clouds that for now on as often as I can.

[@DuranmanX]

Cloud is a Soldier First Class

[@operationtwistedpretzel]

Awesome video!

[@luquito90]

I'm using this to study for my private pilot checkride. This is so helpful to understand the big picture! Great stuff!!!

[@chicken_kid3124]

I love this channel I literally can find anything school/science/history related and I also watch this channel for pleasure, keep up the good work!

[@TroyEagan]

Lumpy space princess cameo.

[@mustardsfire22]

Finally I understand dew point. Also Alize's shirt in this episode is excellent.

[@lukerabin5079]

Seriously great video!

[@shockingheaven]

Loved this lesson. Meteorology is fascinating.

[@ExplainedThroughRap]

Oh this is awesome! We just dropped a rap explaining clouds and the water cycle! I totally should have used this video for research 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@violet_broregarde]

I love the animated clouds, they're so cute

[@kit_the_inevitable]

clouds: floaty mud buckets :)

[@johnwalters1341]

The 585 calories required to vaporize one gram of water is NOT the same as five bananas. Dieticians use a bigger calorie, which is equal to a kilocalorie, or 1000 calories. To prevent confusion, the dietician's calorie is sometimes capitalized as Calorie.

[@thegrumpybubble]

CLOUDS ARE MY FAVORITE

[@sophitran]

Nimbus =rain , thanks for the fun fact

[@KayneWalshNZ]

Man this series is so good! Super interesting and well structured videos so good!

[@rameshkr7602]

Thanks Crash Course for providing free course . You make us fall in love with education

[@trashdude1]

I was just trying to do my school, an then Lumpy Space Princess appears

[@j2smoove798]

Cloud from final fantasy

[@samyjoseph4798]

clouds are so ineresting, thanks for this episode

[@ducluongdo8012]

Thank you, this is very informative.

[@flaviosouza4449]

BEST CHANNEL EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!! GREETINGS FROM BRAZIL

[@minecraftertj2690]

hi

[@RyanRogersJSR]

And this is why I’m a math major LOL. Science is so confusing to me ;-; but this was interesting to learn about!

[@kiranjha789]

Thankyou so much!!! Got it interesting a lot! :-)

[@nesarika]

wow

[@vasavswaminathan1175]

This show is great and informative and also i always love alize's shirts and wonder if there's a connection to the video or she just has style of a quirky elementary school science teacher

[@shreyaprakash]

Crash Course content is as good as it was earlier.

[@familywilliams4058]

A lot of water is released into the air through transpiration as well, which is one reason why some people claim that if you plant the trees, they'll bring the rain.

[@flaviosouza4449]

You guys helped me so much. Thank you!

[@MichaelDo1234]

Even though I have to learn Geography in this video, I cannot understand well because of the explainer. I seem to like her...

[@biologyburst8251]

Sometimes I seriously wonder how much the grades around the world went up thanks to this channel

[@pmathewizard]

Circus clouds - high clouds Cumulus- Fluffy thicc clouds Nimbus - Angerey Clouds Stratus - blanket of CumuloStatuNimbus Clouds - Giga gigantic rain cloud

[@anthonywolf943]

so I watched this after watching an episode on tardigrates.... If you have dust and water in the sky, can you have flying water bears???

[@agnesstrzykowska4300]

I've read somewhere that tartigrates were found in clouds even on very high altitudes. Unfortunately I can't remember the source.

[@smart_ledtv]

Yes, there is plenty of life floating in the sky. Fungi spores, bacteria and viruses may also serve as droplets' nuclei among others. Just don't freak out! 😉

[@frapechinokelsey6451]

Love❤ from INDIA 🇮🇳

[@Zahri8Alang]

On Borneo, the humidity is very high mostly due to our rainforest, and rain is frequent. Although haze is also typical because of certain international bs

[@BlairWaldorf2013]

Humidity doesn’t make black hair lengthen it does the literal exact opposite...our hair shrinks like a mofo which is why so many black women hate when it rains 🌧or gets humid 🌫

[@thomaspalazzolo5902]

"A miserable fluffy pile of secrets!"

[@kannicaheijmans9559]

As an art history major, I’m still waiting for an art history crash course 🥲

[@zarabourke3037]

Of course when I was in school I had no interest whatsoever and now at 24 I’m so interested this makes way more sense now

[@diegelbeseegurke2116]

Yes

[@warfjm]

Clouds are where I keep my family pictures. This video is clearly wrong.

[@Dayglodaydreams]

When do we go to human geography?

[@mr.observer4691]

Mississippi:)

[@AJ-sh9gv]

Its a cloud :>

[@gargassociates456]

another wonderful video on this channel

[@jayobsia4699]

“Let’s go to the thought cloud”

[@sourtaco1115]

can you do video on sikhism please

[@lesussie2237]

Time for sum worldbuilding :D

[@argandzero0]

To those disliking, chill out.

[@RobotRockRod]

So what I just saw outside...what NOT a giant bunny head???

[@DracarmenWinterspring]

It's someone else's computer! Wait wrong subject

[@Adelesprings]

Why are clouds like packets with discernable edges, and not more diffuse and like fog all of the time?

[@ranajoysworld3247]

Good explanation

[@ruthabraha239]

What is a cloud?

[@jmh189]

I am here

[@sx337]

So uh, John, when are we getting that An Abundance of Katherines movie?

[@StudyWaliClass]

wow amazing

[@ThatGuyNicho]

A miserable pile of secrets?

[@AxGameplay]

Awesome 👍

[@AngryBulldogGaming]

my favorite ones are stratus

[@geoffreywinn4031]

Educational!

[@karina2536]

Hi I’m early.

[@joseluispcr]

we need crash course theology

[@amglory677]

The checkerboard clouds that form over big cities early morning... what type of clouds are those??

[@davidmurphy563]

A cloud is much harder to code in a shader than you'd think.

[@1.4142]

Everything on earth is related to geography.

[@devonlee1816]

Thanks so much for the amazing video!! I'm loving crash course geography so much; it is, no exaggeration, a godsend of a series.

[@kayleekorth3408]

Can you guys do more on the brain? For example brain circulation

[@AJ-kx9mb]

c l o u d s

[@blaynesplantvlog7117]

I E A T C L O U D S

[@stho3656]

we want john.

[@ruthabraha239]

What is a Cloud?

[@BOOMBZA]

That's a lot of chom choms

[@boterlettersukkel]

What is a cloud..... Water????

[@jonathancobb3522]

sad thing is hard to tell a cloud a part from plane exhaust

[@karkijenisha3433]

Here is not stratonimbus cloud

[@studioussara5517]

Why do you call this geography?

[@yahliperes3912]

cloud..

[@cometcraft4950]

Im getting some major nerd vibes from this comment section, my people!

[@MrNeroCat]

4:52 You mean ChomChoms :P

[@cartier2312]

SpongeBob 🧽👖

[@maxwell4546]

I hate pink flamingos.

[@kathreeek]

wowow am i first

[@kathreeek]

wow i think i am