Cloud Formation
Cloud formation is not boring! Not at all!
It’s very simple and incredibly complicated at the same time.
Air is weird and wonderful. Totally invisible, it is the magic force that pushes tall ships across the ocean, sends the clouds scudding across the sky and can blow you off your feet on a windy day!
It is also full of water.
Water is super-cool stuff!
It can exist as solid ice, as liquid water in the form of clouds, rain, rivers and oceans, or as an invisible gas.
The invisible gas is called water vapour. Hiding in thin air, tiny water vapour molecules whizz about randomly at an amazing 600 meters per second. No wonder we can’t see them!
We can see them when they condense into water droplets and form clouds.
A cloud is just a whole lot of tiny water droplets hanging out together.
It’s very simple and incredibly complicated at the same time.
Air is weird and wonderful. Totally invisible, it is the magic force that pushes tall ships across the ocean, sends the clouds scudding across the sky and can blow you off your feet on a windy day!
It is also full of water.
Water is super-cool stuff!
It can exist as solid ice, as liquid water in the form of clouds, rain, rivers and oceans, or as an invisible gas.
The invisible gas is called water vapour. Hiding in thin air, tiny water vapour molecules whizz about randomly at an amazing 600 meters per second. No wonder we can’t see them!
We can see them when they condense into water droplets and form clouds.
A cloud is just a whole lot of tiny water droplets hanging out together.