1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:02,840 Speaker 1: Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve camera. 2 00:00:03,160 --> 00:00:07,560 Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you welcome to Stuff you should know 3 00:00:08,160 --> 00:00:16,360 Speaker 1: from House Stuff Works dot Com. Hey, and welcome to 4 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:19,439 Speaker 1: the podcast. I'm Josh Clark, There's Charles W. Chump Bryant. 5 00:00:19,440 --> 00:00:22,799 Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about cloud and we just had a 6 00:00:22,800 --> 00:00:27,160 Speaker 1: parade of producers in here today. Yeah, we're third we recorded, 7 00:00:27,400 --> 00:00:29,800 Speaker 1: we're recording to podcasts today and we're on our third 8 00:00:29,800 --> 00:00:32,440 Speaker 1: producer Jerry is out, so we had guest producer Matt 9 00:00:32,680 --> 00:00:35,440 Speaker 1: and then we had the head hunt. Well during sometime 10 00:00:35,520 --> 00:00:38,520 Speaker 1: during the podcast, they switched without telling you, and Matt 11 00:00:38,560 --> 00:00:40,720 Speaker 1: became Roxanna. Now we have Tyler and Josh made a 12 00:00:40,720 --> 00:00:42,919 Speaker 1: really funny joke, which is, we just need to get 13 00:00:42,920 --> 00:00:46,080 Speaker 1: one of those birds that has the water in it 14 00:00:46,360 --> 00:00:48,919 Speaker 1: or something and just have it set over the our 15 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:53,440 Speaker 1: button so it can pack the record or a baby 16 00:00:53,800 --> 00:00:57,440 Speaker 1: that can press our right, that's what we need. See 17 00:00:57,480 --> 00:00:59,600 Speaker 1: Tyler's laughing. That's good. Yeah, that is. It was like 18 00:00:59,600 --> 00:01:04,280 Speaker 1: a yeah, well, she probably thought correctly, like I shouldn't 19 00:01:04,319 --> 00:01:08,399 Speaker 1: make any noise, right, Tyler's not thinking that. Uh, Chuck, 20 00:01:09,480 --> 00:01:14,319 Speaker 1: have you ever seen a cloud? I have? I love 21 00:01:14,360 --> 00:01:16,200 Speaker 1: clouds than out one for you. Have you ever heard 22 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:19,760 Speaker 1: of a man named Luke Howard? Spill it. It's a 23 00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:24,200 Speaker 1: good name, incident, Luke Howard, especially for the late eighteenth 24 00:01:24,200 --> 00:01:26,760 Speaker 1: early nineteenth century. That's a good name for that. It's 25 00:01:27,040 --> 00:01:29,280 Speaker 1: it's kind of like a a somebody our age would 26 00:01:29,319 --> 00:01:32,720 Speaker 1: be named Luke Howard. You know, it just doesn't seem 27 00:01:32,720 --> 00:01:36,600 Speaker 1: old timing to me. Well, okay, this guy named Luke Howard, 28 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:42,160 Speaker 1: young englishman, right, He's walking around planet Earth and everyone 29 00:01:42,200 --> 00:01:46,759 Speaker 1: around him is calling um, well, yeah, he was born 30 00:01:46,760 --> 00:01:50,480 Speaker 1: in seventeen seventy three, eighteen sixty four, didn't live to 31 00:01:50,480 --> 00:01:52,920 Speaker 1: see the American Civil War come to a close, sadly, 32 00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:57,120 Speaker 1: but he probably figured it would eventually. Possibly didn't predict 33 00:01:57,240 --> 00:02:03,280 Speaker 1: the following year, but who knows. Well. Back during Luke 34 00:02:03,320 --> 00:02:07,440 Speaker 1: Howard's time, before he was aged twenty, right, he was 35 00:02:07,440 --> 00:02:12,440 Speaker 1: walking around and people were calling clouds essences like idiots, right, 36 00:02:12,440 --> 00:02:15,120 Speaker 1: that's what we called clouds essences, Like look at that 37 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:18,400 Speaker 1: beautiful puffy essence in the sky, not even that, just like, 38 00:02:18,600 --> 00:02:21,000 Speaker 1: look at that essence. It's probably gonna eat us eventually, 39 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:23,760 Speaker 1: it's gonna eat the Earth. You know, we we didn't 40 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:29,240 Speaker 1: understand gases very well. We didn't understand um different states 41 00:02:29,320 --> 00:02:33,240 Speaker 1: of solidity liquid gas. What a time to be alive 42 00:02:33,720 --> 00:02:36,639 Speaker 1: it was. There was a time of ignorance and profound 43 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:40,680 Speaker 1: um fear and wonder. Yeah. Yeah, there's a lot left 44 00:02:40,720 --> 00:02:45,639 Speaker 1: to discover, right um. Well, Luke Howard helped put the 45 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:50,040 Speaker 1: kai bosh on that discovery by classifying clouds. First of all, 46 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:52,760 Speaker 1: he started calling him clouds, not essences. He actually thought 47 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:55,440 Speaker 1: up the name cloud. He was the first to call 48 00:02:55,520 --> 00:02:58,480 Speaker 1: him clouds as far as I know. He at aged twenty, 49 00:02:58,600 --> 00:03:03,799 Speaker 1: he called him Luke's yeah or Howard's miss about there, 50 00:03:04,040 --> 00:03:08,840 Speaker 1: look at that beautiful Howard little fluffy Howard's um. Anyway, 51 00:03:09,040 --> 00:03:13,720 Speaker 1: uh Luke joined he was a pharmacist. He joined a 52 00:03:13,840 --> 00:03:19,120 Speaker 1: group called the Eskisians, which means seekers of knowledge um 53 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:24,360 Speaker 1: and as basically to entertain themselves. Every week or whenever 54 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:27,800 Speaker 1: they met, each one would present a scientific paper like 55 00:03:27,840 --> 00:03:30,880 Speaker 1: one would present for that night. And finally, when he's twenty, 56 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:34,480 Speaker 1: uh Luke gets his turn to present a paper that 57 00:03:34,520 --> 00:03:38,280 Speaker 1: he prepared and it's called on the modification of clouds, 58 00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:42,560 Speaker 1: and modification meant what we would consider today classification and 59 00:03:42,560 --> 00:03:47,160 Speaker 1: in parentheses essences. So people knew what that Yeah, And 60 00:03:47,280 --> 00:03:50,800 Speaker 1: that paper actually formed the basis of how we still 61 00:03:50,840 --> 00:03:54,520 Speaker 1: classify clouds. This kid just kind of came up with 62 00:03:54,560 --> 00:03:57,120 Speaker 1: it and it was just dead on. It just made 63 00:03:57,160 --> 00:04:00,920 Speaker 1: such utter sense that hundreds of years later we still 64 00:04:01,040 --> 00:04:04,040 Speaker 1: use his classification system. I would say that puts him 65 00:04:04,040 --> 00:04:07,840 Speaker 1: in the realm of some of the great unknown, uh 66 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:10,360 Speaker 1: important people on the planet. I would say that, you're right, 67 00:04:10,400 --> 00:04:12,680 Speaker 1: my friend, that's something. It's stuff of a genius episode 68 00:04:12,680 --> 00:04:15,120 Speaker 1: to me. Yes, it does. So should we should we 69 00:04:15,240 --> 00:04:17,919 Speaker 1: run down the four main types of clouds that he 70 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:22,960 Speaker 1: thought of? Yeah, he basically classified them. He modified them, 71 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:26,720 Speaker 1: in the parlance of the day, by their shape right 72 00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:31,720 Speaker 1: or size, and their altitude and in a subcategory, their 73 00:04:31,760 --> 00:04:36,480 Speaker 1: ability to precipitate on the earth. Right, all right, I'll 74 00:04:36,480 --> 00:04:38,599 Speaker 1: go ahead and read these off, because you know, Latin 75 00:04:38,720 --> 00:04:41,839 Speaker 1: is my thing. Cumulus Josh means heap or pile. And 76 00:04:41,880 --> 00:04:44,800 Speaker 1: those are the ones, those are the money clouds. Those 77 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:46,919 Speaker 1: are the ones that are flat on the bottom and 78 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:51,679 Speaker 1: real billyy puffy fluffy clouds. Fluffy clouds, but usually big 79 00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:55,960 Speaker 1: not little. Yes. Uh. Stratus clouds are means layer and 80 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:59,240 Speaker 1: they are short and kind of spread across a distance. 81 00:05:00,200 --> 00:05:03,640 Speaker 1: You got the syrus, which means curl of hair, interesting, 82 00:05:04,440 --> 00:05:07,679 Speaker 1: whispy and thin. And then you got the old nimbus 83 00:05:07,680 --> 00:05:10,760 Speaker 1: and those are rain clouds and it means rainy cloud, right, 84 00:05:10,920 --> 00:05:14,279 Speaker 1: which ironically, maybe not ironically, it's probably a terrible word 85 00:05:14,320 --> 00:05:16,360 Speaker 1: to use. But eight o eight State had a great 86 00:05:16,360 --> 00:05:19,600 Speaker 1: song called Nimbus, and the orb had the song Little 87 00:05:19,640 --> 00:05:23,360 Speaker 1: Fuffy Clouds that this episode is named after. We should, uh, 88 00:05:23,400 --> 00:05:26,200 Speaker 1: that was a great song, Little Fuffy Fluffy Clouds. We 89 00:05:26,200 --> 00:05:28,240 Speaker 1: should get that in here somehow, I think we should. 90 00:05:28,279 --> 00:05:30,279 Speaker 1: It was on the It appeared on the album The 91 00:05:30,360 --> 00:05:34,559 Speaker 1: Orbs Adventures Beyond the Ultra Worldly. Great album, the whole 92 00:05:34,560 --> 00:05:37,360 Speaker 1: thing from beginning and just awesome. It's like Dark Side 93 00:05:37,360 --> 00:05:41,800 Speaker 1: of the Moon kind of except what's happier and techno year. Yeah. 94 00:05:41,960 --> 00:05:45,799 Speaker 1: Have you ever been to Montana? No, I've been to Idaho, 95 00:05:45,920 --> 00:05:47,800 Speaker 1: so I kind of have an idea of what you're 96 00:05:47,800 --> 00:05:50,040 Speaker 1: talking to. Deal. You know, I had a guy when 97 00:05:50,080 --> 00:05:51,960 Speaker 1: I was in Montana. Explain Because I lived in the 98 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:55,560 Speaker 1: desert of Yuma, Arizona for a while, and you can 99 00:05:55,600 --> 00:05:58,080 Speaker 1: see from horizon to horizon there, but a lot of 100 00:05:58,080 --> 00:06:01,960 Speaker 1: times it's just blue sky, and so you know it's 101 00:06:01,960 --> 00:06:04,880 Speaker 1: it's it looks expansive. But then you go to Montana 102 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:06,760 Speaker 1: and they call it Big Skyland, and you get out 103 00:06:06,760 --> 00:06:10,359 Speaker 1: of the plane and you it's immediately looks larger. And 104 00:06:10,360 --> 00:06:11,839 Speaker 1: a guy that lived there said it was because of 105 00:06:11,839 --> 00:06:16,480 Speaker 1: the clouds. He said, they get these huge, long, abillowy 106 00:06:16,520 --> 00:06:19,039 Speaker 1: cumulus clouds and it gives it a perspective that you 107 00:06:19,080 --> 00:06:21,279 Speaker 1: don't get, like when it's just a blue sky in 108 00:06:21,279 --> 00:06:23,800 Speaker 1: the desert. And so it gives the illusion that this 109 00:06:23,920 --> 00:06:26,760 Speaker 1: guy is actually larger. Right, So it sounded good to me. 110 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:29,360 Speaker 1: I didn't paint it on the clouds, but you can't tell. 111 00:06:29,400 --> 00:06:35,360 Speaker 1: There's a difference. It's enormous and vast fast. Yeah. Alright. 112 00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:37,520 Speaker 1: So and for those of us, for those who really 113 00:06:37,560 --> 00:06:42,360 Speaker 1: pay attention to the podcast, there is no h on humor. 114 00:06:42,480 --> 00:06:46,960 Speaker 1: It actually is pronounced. It's not humor, Josh shol We 115 00:06:46,960 --> 00:06:49,600 Speaker 1: talk about types of clouds by altitude. Yes, I think 116 00:06:49,600 --> 00:06:53,560 Speaker 1: we should, chuck. Let's start with high Yeah. Um. So 117 00:06:53,640 --> 00:06:58,080 Speaker 1: we talked about we talked about based on size or shape, right, yes, um. 118 00:06:58,120 --> 00:07:00,240 Speaker 1: And you can take those shapes and depending on where 119 00:07:00,240 --> 00:07:04,280 Speaker 1: they are in altitude, they have different names, different prefixes. 120 00:07:04,400 --> 00:07:07,440 Speaker 1: The high level clouds generally have some sort of prefixed 121 00:07:07,480 --> 00:07:11,880 Speaker 1: like zero. Right, So you've got serious clouds sero cumulus 122 00:07:11,880 --> 00:07:17,760 Speaker 1: and serious stratus clouds, and serious stratus clouds are often 123 00:07:17,960 --> 00:07:21,400 Speaker 1: they're they're usually very high, very thin, and sometimes there's 124 00:07:21,440 --> 00:07:23,520 Speaker 1: such a thin layer that you can only detect them 125 00:07:23,520 --> 00:07:27,000 Speaker 1: when they're sucks deposed against the moon. Then you can 126 00:07:27,040 --> 00:07:30,160 Speaker 1: see that it's creating a halo effect. That's actually a 127 00:07:30,200 --> 00:07:34,920 Speaker 1: serious stratus cloud. Right, Yes, zero cumulus one of my favorites, 128 00:07:35,440 --> 00:07:40,280 Speaker 1: very very high level, puffy cotton balls way up there. Yeah, 129 00:07:40,520 --> 00:07:43,440 Speaker 1: and then chuck take it home with cirrus. Uh. Serious 130 00:07:43,480 --> 00:07:47,240 Speaker 1: clouds Josh are white and delicate, and their whispy, and 131 00:07:47,400 --> 00:07:51,320 Speaker 1: they sometimes have little swirls at the end, uh, created 132 00:07:51,360 --> 00:07:54,160 Speaker 1: by the wind, by the wind, by the end created 133 00:07:54,200 --> 00:07:57,760 Speaker 1: by the wind. And you can like detect air patterns 134 00:07:57,760 --> 00:07:59,480 Speaker 1: a lot of times by what it's doing to these 135 00:07:59,560 --> 00:08:01,400 Speaker 1: kind of clouds. Yeah, or you can just lick your 136 00:08:01,440 --> 00:08:04,160 Speaker 1: finger and hold it up. Yes, high level. We should 137 00:08:04,160 --> 00:08:06,160 Speaker 1: point out the bottoms of the cloud. And it's always 138 00:08:06,200 --> 00:08:09,400 Speaker 1: measured at the bottom because clouds can be pretty tall. Yeah, 139 00:08:09,440 --> 00:08:13,600 Speaker 1: the bottom is usually between twenty forty feet not usually 140 00:08:13,640 --> 00:08:15,960 Speaker 1: that's how it's classified. This is when you have to 141 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:19,640 Speaker 1: break through when you're reaching your cruising altitude in an airplane. 142 00:08:20,400 --> 00:08:24,120 Speaker 1: Mats in here. Now you're joking, Tyler's gone, mats in here. 143 00:08:24,280 --> 00:08:27,200 Speaker 1: This is nuts. I have a feeling where the victims 144 00:08:27,200 --> 00:08:30,160 Speaker 1: of some sort of practical joke perpetrated by the woman 145 00:08:30,200 --> 00:08:33,360 Speaker 1: who says that you're listening to we should have a contest. 146 00:08:33,440 --> 00:08:38,199 Speaker 1: You two can produce stuff you should know. Just show up. Yeah, 147 00:08:38,320 --> 00:08:41,360 Speaker 1: we'll let you in. If you have a working index finger, 148 00:08:42,559 --> 00:08:45,560 Speaker 1: you can produce stuff you should know. All right, let's 149 00:08:45,559 --> 00:08:48,400 Speaker 1: go down to mid level clouds. And these have bottoms 150 00:08:48,480 --> 00:08:52,800 Speaker 1: that began at about six hundred twenty thousand feet. Take 151 00:08:52,800 --> 00:08:55,680 Speaker 1: it away. Well, the the mid level clouds are usually 152 00:08:55,679 --> 00:08:59,400 Speaker 1: described by the prefixed alto, which makes mid level clouds 153 00:08:59,400 --> 00:09:04,240 Speaker 1: the Kenny of clouds. So you've got Alto cumulus alto stratus. 154 00:09:04,320 --> 00:09:07,920 Speaker 1: That written down or did you okay it's written down? 155 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:13,040 Speaker 1: I didn't want to forget Alto stratus. Yeah. Alto cumulus 156 00:09:13,080 --> 00:09:17,800 Speaker 1: are like sheets of um, like little round clouds um. 157 00:09:17,880 --> 00:09:21,680 Speaker 1: And then they're kind of like Sero cumulus, but they 158 00:09:21,720 --> 00:09:26,440 Speaker 1: have shading right um, which I hadn't really thought about. 159 00:09:26,480 --> 00:09:33,160 Speaker 1: But I've noticed the difference. Oh yeah, you know, I 160 00:09:33,160 --> 00:09:34,880 Speaker 1: would encourage people that, you know, if you're at a 161 00:09:34,880 --> 00:09:36,400 Speaker 1: computer and you're not just listening to this in the 162 00:09:36,440 --> 00:09:39,720 Speaker 1: car or something, follow along like a type in Google images, 163 00:09:39,760 --> 00:09:42,559 Speaker 1: he's you know, it helps. It does help, because this 164 00:09:42,600 --> 00:09:46,520 Speaker 1: is really difficult to describe because you you know, you can. 165 00:09:46,720 --> 00:09:50,560 Speaker 1: You can very easily pick out the cumulus clouds, the 166 00:09:50,960 --> 00:09:53,439 Speaker 1: fluffy one, everyone's favorite. But once you start to get 167 00:09:53,480 --> 00:09:57,120 Speaker 1: into you know, serio cumulus, that kind of thing, it 168 00:09:57,160 --> 00:10:01,040 Speaker 1: just becomes a little harder to describe. Well, imagine true 169 00:10:01,080 --> 00:10:03,920 Speaker 1: Alto stratus, though, I will say you might know those 170 00:10:03,960 --> 00:10:06,880 Speaker 1: because those are the really really solid, thick ones, so 171 00:10:06,960 --> 00:10:08,679 Speaker 1: much so that that's when you're out on a sunny 172 00:10:08,760 --> 00:10:11,600 Speaker 1: day and one passes over and it gets noticeably dark 173 00:10:11,640 --> 00:10:14,319 Speaker 1: and you get shadows and things like that. Those are 174 00:10:14,360 --> 00:10:18,800 Speaker 1: Alto stratus. And then the low level clouds you want 175 00:10:18,840 --> 00:10:22,199 Speaker 1: to talk about them, yeah, below set right, So these 176 00:10:22,200 --> 00:10:25,800 Speaker 1: are the ones that we would conceive of, um creating fog. 177 00:10:26,480 --> 00:10:31,720 Speaker 1: Yeah right, Um, there's Cumulus strato Cumulus stratus stratus clouds 178 00:10:31,760 --> 00:10:34,520 Speaker 1: are the ones that resemble fog, that make this guy 179 00:10:34,600 --> 00:10:37,800 Speaker 1: look overcast, where it's just like you can't tell it's 180 00:10:37,840 --> 00:10:40,080 Speaker 1: nothing but clouds or else if it's just kind of 181 00:10:40,120 --> 00:10:42,679 Speaker 1: a great day or what's going on? Did you hit 182 00:10:42,720 --> 00:10:46,679 Speaker 1: your head that kind of thing. Yeah, And there's also 183 00:10:46,760 --> 00:10:50,439 Speaker 1: the classic fair weather cumulus, and those are the those 184 00:10:50,440 --> 00:10:52,600 Speaker 1: are the money clouds, that's when it's really bright and blue, 185 00:10:53,080 --> 00:10:57,160 Speaker 1: big puffy cotton balls that look like funny rabbits or 186 00:10:57,200 --> 00:11:00,720 Speaker 1: Lyndon Johnson or whatever. Right. And then there's there's strato 187 00:11:00,800 --> 00:11:04,880 Speaker 1: cumulus um where you can usually pick those out at 188 00:11:04,960 --> 00:11:08,440 Speaker 1: night as well, um most easily because they're the ones 189 00:11:08,480 --> 00:11:11,439 Speaker 1: that pass in front of the moon, right, and there's 190 00:11:11,440 --> 00:11:14,679 Speaker 1: like breaks in them, and that's strato cumulus. So like 191 00:11:14,960 --> 00:11:18,280 Speaker 1: it's it's so strange to think because you've experienced in 192 00:11:18,320 --> 00:11:23,760 Speaker 1: your thirty nine thirty nine years walking around this planet 193 00:11:23,880 --> 00:11:27,240 Speaker 1: all these different types of clouds, right, but you might 194 00:11:27,280 --> 00:11:29,800 Speaker 1: as well have been walking around calling them essences because 195 00:11:29,840 --> 00:11:32,960 Speaker 1: we didn't really realize that they have all these different classifications. 196 00:11:32,960 --> 00:11:35,679 Speaker 1: Are that the ones that the moon breakthrough here there 197 00:11:35,720 --> 00:11:40,160 Speaker 1: are actually um strato cumulus right um. The ones that 198 00:11:40,200 --> 00:11:44,160 Speaker 1: are the big, big fluffy clouds are cumulus. The ones 199 00:11:44,200 --> 00:11:48,520 Speaker 1: that rain are nimbus, Yeah, Cumulo nimbus clouds are thunderstorm 200 00:11:48,559 --> 00:11:53,360 Speaker 1: clouds basically low level and uh nimbus stratus are also 201 00:11:53,559 --> 00:11:56,320 Speaker 1: very the dark, low hanging clouds, right, and those are 202 00:11:56,400 --> 00:11:59,840 Speaker 1: attached into like this kind of extra category called vertically 203 00:11:59,840 --> 00:12:03,320 Speaker 1: to veloped clouds. Right. Um, these things are so tall, 204 00:12:03,760 --> 00:12:07,800 Speaker 1: so large, and they form vertically uh in these piles 205 00:12:07,840 --> 00:12:14,160 Speaker 1: that they actually transcend altitudes, they cross over altitudinal boundaries. Okay, 206 00:12:14,160 --> 00:12:16,760 Speaker 1: so they creep into different like low level and mid 207 00:12:16,840 --> 00:12:21,960 Speaker 1: level right yeah. Um, so those are the types of clouds. Right. 208 00:12:22,080 --> 00:12:25,720 Speaker 1: Are you still with us? I am yeah, if I 209 00:12:25,760 --> 00:12:27,640 Speaker 1: was not in it, we got through the boring part. 210 00:12:28,080 --> 00:12:31,160 Speaker 1: Now we're going to talk about how clouds form, right, yeah, 211 00:12:31,880 --> 00:12:34,760 Speaker 1: this is a good part. I agree. Evaporation and well 212 00:12:35,400 --> 00:12:37,559 Speaker 1: let's start this out with something that comes later in 213 00:12:37,600 --> 00:12:42,240 Speaker 1: the article. Clouds are collections of little water droplets and 214 00:12:42,320 --> 00:12:45,839 Speaker 1: crystallized water molecules. That's what a cloud is, right, We 215 00:12:45,880 --> 00:12:49,160 Speaker 1: should have led the show off with that. Basically, cloud forms. 216 00:12:49,320 --> 00:12:52,720 Speaker 1: And here if you ever are wondering how cloud forms, 217 00:12:52,720 --> 00:12:56,160 Speaker 1: if anyone ever asks you, just bust this out. Clouds 218 00:12:56,160 --> 00:13:02,120 Speaker 1: form when warm, moist air encounters cooler air. Simple as that. Sure, Um, 219 00:13:02,200 --> 00:13:05,560 Speaker 1: we can get into a little more complexity, shall we Yes, Uh, 220 00:13:05,840 --> 00:13:08,400 Speaker 1: think about a hot day and you have like pour 221 00:13:08,520 --> 00:13:10,959 Speaker 1: some water on the asphalt on a hot day, it's 222 00:13:10,960 --> 00:13:15,920 Speaker 1: going to evaporate quicker. And you a dummy would just say, 223 00:13:15,920 --> 00:13:18,920 Speaker 1: well it's hot, right, Yeah, But the reasons happening is 224 00:13:18,920 --> 00:13:22,000 Speaker 1: because the water molecules are are more excited it's hot, 225 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:24,600 Speaker 1: They're moving around more, they can spread out further, can 226 00:13:24,640 --> 00:13:27,360 Speaker 1: spread out from a body of water and then basically 227 00:13:27,440 --> 00:13:30,679 Speaker 1: bust free into water vapor more easily. Right, And Toothman 228 00:13:30,720 --> 00:13:35,000 Speaker 1: who wrote this article uses the example of a bird bath, right, yes, 229 00:13:35,400 --> 00:13:37,800 Speaker 1: but you can use the bird bath is pretty much 230 00:13:37,800 --> 00:13:40,880 Speaker 1: a metaphor for any body of water on Earth. Clouds 231 00:13:40,960 --> 00:13:45,400 Speaker 1: ultimately formed from the evaporation of water on the Earth's surface. Which, 232 00:13:45,600 --> 00:13:49,120 Speaker 1: uh so, these water molecules become excited turn into water vapor, 233 00:13:49,520 --> 00:13:52,680 Speaker 1: which is capable of interacting with the air. They may 234 00:13:53,040 --> 00:13:57,160 Speaker 1: rise up when they encounter cooler air higher up, they're 235 00:13:57,200 --> 00:14:01,720 Speaker 1: going to condense all of a sudden and full warm clouds. Right, 236 00:14:01,800 --> 00:14:05,240 Speaker 1: that's called a convective cloud boom. It can also happen 237 00:14:05,320 --> 00:14:09,280 Speaker 1: when warm moist air encounters a cold front, just a 238 00:14:09,320 --> 00:14:11,840 Speaker 1: piece of cold air that's not necessarily higher in altitude, 239 00:14:11,840 --> 00:14:13,600 Speaker 1: but it's coming in front the right or the left. 240 00:14:14,240 --> 00:14:16,800 Speaker 1: And then along that front where the warm moist air 241 00:14:16,920 --> 00:14:19,200 Speaker 1: meets the edge of the coal. There the edge that's 242 00:14:19,200 --> 00:14:23,720 Speaker 1: created that's going to cause precipitation boom again and clouds, 243 00:14:24,280 --> 00:14:27,520 Speaker 1: clouds josh also form a little easier if the water 244 00:14:27,600 --> 00:14:31,680 Speaker 1: vapor uh, that's evaporating, how something to grab onto so 245 00:14:31,760 --> 00:14:34,080 Speaker 1: that allows it to change into a liquid or solid 246 00:14:34,080 --> 00:14:38,800 Speaker 1: phase easier. And they call these condensation nuclei or freezing nuclei. 247 00:14:39,240 --> 00:14:42,520 Speaker 1: Sounds fancy, it's really what we're talking about is dust, 248 00:14:42,960 --> 00:14:46,600 Speaker 1: sea salt. There's like a wildfire, soot from the wildfire 249 00:14:47,200 --> 00:14:51,520 Speaker 1: stuff in the air serve as particulate matter, yeah, particular matter, 250 00:14:51,600 --> 00:14:55,200 Speaker 1: and that that serves to make the clouds form quicker. Right, 251 00:14:55,360 --> 00:14:58,080 Speaker 1: because what you have is something that it forms the 252 00:14:58,200 --> 00:15:01,760 Speaker 1: nucleus of this water opplet, and it starts attracting more 253 00:15:01,760 --> 00:15:05,000 Speaker 1: and more and more and more, and then eventually this uh, 254 00:15:05,120 --> 00:15:08,440 Speaker 1: this water droplet gets so heavy that it can't be 255 00:15:08,520 --> 00:15:12,200 Speaker 1: sustained against the force of gravity any longer, which pulls 256 00:15:12,240 --> 00:15:15,240 Speaker 1: it down to Earth as a rain drop, or if 257 00:15:15,240 --> 00:15:17,680 Speaker 1: it's cold enough, pulls it down to earth as a 258 00:15:17,760 --> 00:15:20,520 Speaker 1: nice crystal, which you might know and love as a 259 00:15:20,600 --> 00:15:25,120 Speaker 1: snowflake meteorology with Josh Clark. Before we move on to that, 260 00:15:25,160 --> 00:15:26,600 Speaker 1: which is awesome, I do want to point out that 261 00:15:26,720 --> 00:15:29,720 Speaker 1: one of the other things that can serve as a 262 00:15:29,840 --> 00:15:34,760 Speaker 1: uh condensation nuclei is bacteria. Plant bacteria and the air 263 00:15:35,520 --> 00:15:40,720 Speaker 1: can help clouds form more quickly. That's right. It's weird, man, 264 00:15:41,960 --> 00:15:43,720 Speaker 1: is it weird? I don't know it just it is 265 00:15:43,720 --> 00:15:48,920 Speaker 1: to me. Why we know you can't see it. It's happening, 266 00:15:49,720 --> 00:15:51,600 Speaker 1: but you can't see it. So anything I can't see 267 00:15:51,640 --> 00:15:57,880 Speaker 1: it's just weird. Not weird. That ultra violet light. Yeah, yeah, okay, alright, 268 00:15:58,080 --> 00:16:06,360 Speaker 1: microscopic stuff as weird. I hate art. Alright, chuck. Clouds 269 00:16:06,360 --> 00:16:08,960 Speaker 1: move around, we should say, because the difference in the 270 00:16:08,960 --> 00:16:11,440 Speaker 1: air temperature within the cloud then outside it. You can 271 00:16:11,480 --> 00:16:14,080 Speaker 1: push it around here and there. Yeah, let's look a 272 00:16:14,120 --> 00:16:16,240 Speaker 1: good way to look at clouds that I realized from 273 00:16:16,240 --> 00:16:21,320 Speaker 1: researching this article is that um clouds almost follow the 274 00:16:21,320 --> 00:16:24,920 Speaker 1: first law of thermodynamics, Right, They can't be created or destroyed, 275 00:16:25,320 --> 00:16:28,480 Speaker 1: They just change formation. Right. If you look at clouds 276 00:16:28,520 --> 00:16:31,440 Speaker 1: as part of the rain cycle, right that that that 277 00:16:31,880 --> 00:16:35,080 Speaker 1: is basically this interaction between the water on the earth 278 00:16:35,120 --> 00:16:38,680 Speaker 1: surface and the atmosphere, and they're they're a reaction. They're 279 00:16:38,720 --> 00:16:41,960 Speaker 1: part of this reaction. Different types of clouds, right. Um. 280 00:16:42,080 --> 00:16:44,840 Speaker 1: Then they're they're constantly moving. This water vapor is either 281 00:16:45,320 --> 00:16:49,920 Speaker 1: in the air, invisible as water vapor, visible as a cloud, 282 00:16:50,240 --> 00:16:54,120 Speaker 1: or visible as part of the water on the earth surface. Right. 283 00:16:54,400 --> 00:16:57,440 Speaker 1: So clouds like churn into one another. It's not like 284 00:16:57,680 --> 00:17:00,640 Speaker 1: I'm a cumulus cloud now, I'm just gone, right. They'll 285 00:17:00,680 --> 00:17:03,000 Speaker 1: usually turn into one another as they rise and fall, 286 00:17:03,800 --> 00:17:05,840 Speaker 1: and then it's all, yeah, it's a part of the 287 00:17:05,840 --> 00:17:10,000 Speaker 1: big cycle. Right. So say that you have a big 288 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:15,240 Speaker 1: old cumulus cloud, nice warm, moist cumulus cloud, all right, 289 00:17:15,400 --> 00:17:17,920 Speaker 1: love them, and it hits a wedge of coal. Are 290 00:17:18,200 --> 00:17:23,040 Speaker 1: that cold front causes precipitation? Right? Um? And it's actually 291 00:17:23,480 --> 00:17:28,640 Speaker 1: usually when a warm a warm cloud meets cold there 292 00:17:28,920 --> 00:17:32,960 Speaker 1: the warm clouds forced up, right uh, And it's going 293 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:36,000 Speaker 1: to cool, which will cause precipitation. But it's also going 294 00:17:36,040 --> 00:17:38,200 Speaker 1: to cause that cloud to just rise further and further 295 00:17:38,280 --> 00:17:40,480 Speaker 1: and it's going to evolve, so it'll hit that middle 296 00:17:40,760 --> 00:17:45,320 Speaker 1: altitude and become like an Alto stratus or alto cumulus cloud. 297 00:17:45,520 --> 00:17:47,880 Speaker 1: It's gonna break up a little further and finally will 298 00:17:47,920 --> 00:17:51,280 Speaker 1: probably reach into the upper atmosphere and become a serious cloud. 299 00:17:51,960 --> 00:17:56,160 Speaker 1: And then you know, um jazz hands or what is it? 300 00:17:56,600 --> 00:18:00,919 Speaker 1: What does those hands call? Dream hands? Dream and it 301 00:18:00,960 --> 00:18:04,080 Speaker 1: turns back into water vapor possibly just kind of drifts 302 00:18:04,119 --> 00:18:06,879 Speaker 1: along until it reaches the right conditions to become a 303 00:18:06,880 --> 00:18:09,440 Speaker 1: cloud again, or it might just travel back to Earth 304 00:18:10,400 --> 00:18:12,879 Speaker 1: and condense into a body of water. You could do 305 00:18:12,920 --> 00:18:15,880 Speaker 1: a little one man show dream hand Josh explains clouds 306 00:18:15,880 --> 00:18:19,000 Speaker 1: through uh beats and physical movements. Have you seen the 307 00:18:19,080 --> 00:18:22,040 Speaker 1: dream Hands video? And now I have gotta show you this. 308 00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:24,560 Speaker 1: I thought you were talking about the rainbow guy at first. 309 00:18:25,040 --> 00:18:28,120 Speaker 1: Which one is that full double rainbow? No, it's very 310 00:18:28,160 --> 00:18:31,919 Speaker 1: similar to that. That guy's he's full of one. He's like, 311 00:18:31,960 --> 00:18:37,000 Speaker 1: look at those essences of something. Uh. So we talked 312 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:38,800 Speaker 1: about rain a little bit, We talked about snow a 313 00:18:38,800 --> 00:18:42,520 Speaker 1: little bit. This is what I found most interesting. What 314 00:18:42,520 --> 00:18:45,440 Speaker 1: what about the others? What about sleep? Freezing rain, and hail? 315 00:18:46,280 --> 00:18:49,920 Speaker 1: I found this endlessly interesting. I did because freezing rain, 316 00:18:49,960 --> 00:18:51,920 Speaker 1: I mean, I didn't know how any of this stuff worked. 317 00:18:52,160 --> 00:18:54,320 Speaker 1: And I was in I took a meteorology class in college. 318 00:18:54,320 --> 00:18:57,639 Speaker 1: I guess it just sort of left my brain space 319 00:18:57,720 --> 00:19:02,320 Speaker 1: at some point. But freezing and Josh is when it's 320 00:19:02,320 --> 00:19:06,080 Speaker 1: a snowflake at first falls down through the atmosphere, gets 321 00:19:06,119 --> 00:19:10,680 Speaker 1: a little warmer, melts, turns back into rain, continues to fall, 322 00:19:10,920 --> 00:19:14,840 Speaker 1: passes through another layer of cold air, becomes super cool, 323 00:19:14,960 --> 00:19:18,400 Speaker 1: but it doesn't refreeze, hits the ground and hits something 324 00:19:18,440 --> 00:19:21,640 Speaker 1: so cold on the ground that it freezes. Right, that's 325 00:19:21,640 --> 00:19:25,080 Speaker 1: freezing rain. Yes, that's different than sleep sleets, sort of 326 00:19:25,119 --> 00:19:28,600 Speaker 1: the same thing, except it actually has enough time to refreeze. 327 00:19:29,119 --> 00:19:31,440 Speaker 1: The melted snowflake refreezes before it hits the ground the 328 00:19:32,119 --> 00:19:34,919 Speaker 1: cold air, right, you know that's on the ground and 329 00:19:35,040 --> 00:19:38,159 Speaker 1: up as big enough so that it as that droplet 330 00:19:38,320 --> 00:19:43,160 Speaker 1: is passing through, it refreezes and then take it away. Hale. Well, 331 00:19:43,280 --> 00:19:49,480 Speaker 1: hail is particularly interesting because it's associated with um severe 332 00:19:49,520 --> 00:19:53,160 Speaker 1: storms that have a lot of updrafts and gusts within it. Right, 333 00:19:53,560 --> 00:19:57,879 Speaker 1: So this the the ice crystals or the rain droplets 334 00:19:57,920 --> 00:20:00,560 Speaker 1: are being kicked up and around, and you know it's 335 00:20:00,600 --> 00:20:04,600 Speaker 1: freezing in in thawing and refreezing and more water vapors 336 00:20:04,640 --> 00:20:08,560 Speaker 1: being attracted to it, and the gusts are strong enough 337 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:13,480 Speaker 1: that this can be prolonged so that it turns into 338 00:20:13,600 --> 00:20:17,480 Speaker 1: ice chunks the size of like Evolvo. It collects more stuff. Basically, 339 00:20:17,640 --> 00:20:19,600 Speaker 1: is it's going down than the wind says no, no no, no, 340 00:20:19,640 --> 00:20:21,399 Speaker 1: you're going back up, And it goes back down. Then 341 00:20:21,400 --> 00:20:23,919 Speaker 1: it goes back up, and then do you have, like 342 00:20:23,960 --> 00:20:27,800 Speaker 1: you said, damage damaging hail. Right, Uh, it just can't 343 00:20:27,800 --> 00:20:30,640 Speaker 1: be sustained any longer. It's just too heavy. Which that's 344 00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:33,959 Speaker 1: the story with all precipitation, right, Yeah, it's the stuff 345 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:36,240 Speaker 1: forming up in the atmosphere out of water and it's 346 00:20:36,240 --> 00:20:38,800 Speaker 1: either cold enough to freeze, or it's not so it's 347 00:20:38,880 --> 00:20:41,840 Speaker 1: rain or it's snow, and then it becomes so fat 348 00:20:41,880 --> 00:20:44,240 Speaker 1: that gravity can't support it any longer. The wonders of 349 00:20:44,400 --> 00:20:49,119 Speaker 1: the earth. Chunks of ice can form out of invisible 350 00:20:49,359 --> 00:20:52,480 Speaker 1: nothing's in the air and fall on your car. Isn't 351 00:20:52,480 --> 00:20:55,680 Speaker 1: that awesome? It is pretty awesome, like this kind of stuff. 352 00:20:55,680 --> 00:20:57,640 Speaker 1: I used to sit on the my roof in college 353 00:20:57,640 --> 00:20:59,920 Speaker 1: and talk about, you know, with my friends endlessly. Really 354 00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:03,840 Speaker 1: I used to talk about the Illuminati. Oh yeah, well 355 00:21:03,880 --> 00:21:08,760 Speaker 1: that too. My friend Jason actually that lives in Japan. Now, 356 00:21:08,800 --> 00:21:11,040 Speaker 1: he was my first friend to turn me onto all 357 00:21:11,080 --> 00:21:14,200 Speaker 1: these like stuff they don't want you to know type stuff. 358 00:21:14,520 --> 00:21:16,919 Speaker 1: He was everyone had that first friend. I was like, 359 00:21:17,080 --> 00:21:20,960 Speaker 1: what secret societies? Tell me more? And I was like, 360 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:24,399 Speaker 1: clouds are cool. Yeah. I have to say I was 361 00:21:24,440 --> 00:21:27,160 Speaker 1: a little disappointed. I thought this was gonna be. This 362 00:21:27,280 --> 00:21:29,880 Speaker 1: ended up being more of like, well, we gotta understand 363 00:21:29,920 --> 00:21:32,880 Speaker 1: this to understand everything, and I see I was blown away. 364 00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:35,200 Speaker 1: Where are you really? I'm glad, Yeah, I'm glad. Man 365 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:39,720 Speaker 1: childlike wonder, Josh. Let's talk about why clouds. What they do. 366 00:21:42,840 --> 00:21:45,800 Speaker 1: One of the things they do is move dust. Yeah, 367 00:21:45,960 --> 00:21:50,440 Speaker 1: and is mind blowing. I think it is. What is 368 00:21:50,480 --> 00:21:53,320 Speaker 1: it thirteen million tons? Well that's just between Africa and 369 00:21:53,359 --> 00:21:57,080 Speaker 1: a certain spot of the Amazon basin. It is kind 370 00:21:57,119 --> 00:22:01,280 Speaker 1: of at least to desertification. Well can One of the 371 00:22:01,359 --> 00:22:05,600 Speaker 1: cool things about clouds is that if you have particular matter, 372 00:22:05,800 --> 00:22:09,440 Speaker 1: as we saw, whether it's plant bacteria or from wildfires, um, 373 00:22:09,480 --> 00:22:13,440 Speaker 1: it's going to cause precipitation a lot more easily, which 374 00:22:13,480 --> 00:22:17,040 Speaker 1: is the idea behind cloud seating, right, like the disaster 375 00:22:17,200 --> 00:22:21,040 Speaker 1: by the Royal Air Force in where they seated clouds 376 00:22:21,040 --> 00:22:24,000 Speaker 1: and like ninety million tons of rain hit in a 377 00:22:24,119 --> 00:22:27,639 Speaker 1: day and killed a lot of people in Great Britain, 378 00:22:28,080 --> 00:22:30,119 Speaker 1: and the Royal Air Force is like, whoops is going 379 00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:32,359 Speaker 1: to be classified till two thousand one. And when I 380 00:22:32,359 --> 00:22:34,760 Speaker 1: say it worked, I don't mean I mean it worked 381 00:22:34,920 --> 00:22:37,399 Speaker 1: like it rained so much or not? It worked awesome. 382 00:22:37,400 --> 00:22:41,040 Speaker 1: They killed people China. UM did their bid to control 383 00:22:41,119 --> 00:22:46,439 Speaker 1: the weather by dissipating clouds by impregnating them with silver 384 00:22:46,520 --> 00:22:50,080 Speaker 1: eyedie cloud seating, and apparently we're doing it. We're using 385 00:22:50,080 --> 00:22:53,600 Speaker 1: this to UM to control climate change as well. The 386 00:22:53,680 --> 00:22:57,199 Speaker 1: problem is if you have too much particulate matter, uh, 387 00:22:57,280 --> 00:23:00,359 Speaker 1: it's going to spread out and the water droplets that 388 00:23:00,359 --> 00:23:02,359 Speaker 1: are going to be attracted to it are going to 389 00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:06,440 Speaker 1: be very small because there's maybe one piece of particular 390 00:23:06,520 --> 00:23:09,119 Speaker 1: matter for every water droplet, rather than one piece for 391 00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:12,600 Speaker 1: every million water droplets, which are going to form big 392 00:23:12,640 --> 00:23:16,919 Speaker 1: fat rain drops. Right. So therefore that leads to desertification. 393 00:23:18,280 --> 00:23:22,520 Speaker 1: Did that make sense? Okay? I wonder since bacteria can 394 00:23:22,560 --> 00:23:27,720 Speaker 1: serve as a particulate I wonder if potentially you could 395 00:23:27,720 --> 00:23:31,560 Speaker 1: have disease rained down upon a nation. I would imagine, 396 00:23:31,560 --> 00:23:34,520 Speaker 1: So there's a movie platform you right there, buddy, Hey, 397 00:23:34,560 --> 00:23:37,520 Speaker 1: it's going on all around us right now, is it? Sure. 398 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:39,760 Speaker 1: All right, so let's talk about what else they do 399 00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:41,840 Speaker 1: to the Earth. They serve as a bar area for 400 00:23:42,040 --> 00:23:46,560 Speaker 1: heat both coming in and out. They absorb about of 401 00:23:46,600 --> 00:23:50,120 Speaker 1: the heat and they also reflect about of the heat 402 00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:52,800 Speaker 1: back to the Sun. Well, it depends. If you have 403 00:23:52,880 --> 00:23:56,879 Speaker 1: low level clouds, you're going to have a cooler temperature 404 00:23:56,920 --> 00:24:00,280 Speaker 1: because low level clouds are the best at reflect think 405 00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:04,439 Speaker 1: solar energy back into space. If you have high level clouds, 406 00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:06,879 Speaker 1: you're going to especially at night, you're going to have 407 00:24:06,920 --> 00:24:09,680 Speaker 1: warmer temperatures because the highest level clouds are the best 408 00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:12,439 Speaker 1: that acting as a blanket around the Earth. Yeah, they 409 00:24:12,480 --> 00:24:15,119 Speaker 1: do both. They absorb some, they bounce some back, and 410 00:24:15,160 --> 00:24:18,520 Speaker 1: then once it passes through that it can contain it 411 00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:20,639 Speaker 1: within the Earth. On that within the Earth, but between 412 00:24:20,680 --> 00:24:24,480 Speaker 1: the Earth's surface and the clouds like a blanket. That's 413 00:24:24,480 --> 00:24:27,440 Speaker 1: exactly right, which is why a cloudless night is always 414 00:24:27,440 --> 00:24:31,760 Speaker 1: colder than a cloudy night, because that solar radiation that's 415 00:24:31,840 --> 00:24:35,000 Speaker 1: reached the Earth is shooting right back into space, so 416 00:24:35,080 --> 00:24:39,679 Speaker 1: that that's not endlessly interesting to you. Still. Yeah, Okay, 417 00:24:39,760 --> 00:24:41,800 Speaker 1: I wish it was, Chuck, I really wish it was. 418 00:24:41,840 --> 00:24:45,560 Speaker 1: How about that Illuminati though, Yeah, there's that uh should 419 00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:49,200 Speaker 1: we talk about weird clouds? Oh? I think we should. Man, 420 00:24:49,600 --> 00:24:55,120 Speaker 1: we've got contrails, which I thought was just like literally 421 00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:59,479 Speaker 1: coming out of the exhaustive jets. It's actually that's vapor 422 00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:04,200 Speaker 1: shot out by jet exhaust that's freezing or condensing into 423 00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:07,159 Speaker 1: these little vapor clouds. And we won't get into the 424 00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:10,719 Speaker 1: whole kim trail thing. Those are different. Well, that's just 425 00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:15,639 Speaker 1: the whole controversy there. Actually, Maddie's in here, and uh, 426 00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:17,399 Speaker 1: if you want to know about kim trails, they have 427 00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:19,600 Speaker 1: a stuff they don't want you to know about kim trails. 428 00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:25,440 Speaker 1: So instead of us flopping, we'll just direct you that way. Um, 429 00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:30,560 Speaker 1: lenticular clouds. Did you look up some of these picture wise? Uh? 430 00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:32,240 Speaker 1: I wish you hadn't asked me that. I wish I 431 00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:35,200 Speaker 1: would have printed them out. Lenticular clouds and cap clouds. 432 00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:39,800 Speaker 1: Lenticular are layered and very swirly and it looks they 433 00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:43,879 Speaker 1: look like a funnel shaped stack of pancakes. Very cool looking. 434 00:25:44,600 --> 00:25:47,600 Speaker 1: Cap clouds look like a big disk on top of 435 00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:49,399 Speaker 1: a mountain, like kind of sitting on the nose of 436 00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:51,760 Speaker 1: the mountain. I've seen that one before. That's really cool. 437 00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:54,560 Speaker 1: There's actually a really cool phenomena I can't remember what 438 00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:57,959 Speaker 1: it's called, where if you're at a high enough altitude 439 00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:02,840 Speaker 1: and it's cloudy, you your shadow is cast upward, oh 440 00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:06,440 Speaker 1: really yeah, rather than downward, and it makes you look 441 00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:09,280 Speaker 1: like this huge giant, like walking through the sky because 442 00:26:09,359 --> 00:26:11,600 Speaker 1: usually it's so cloudy that you can't see any breaks 443 00:26:11,600 --> 00:26:14,399 Speaker 1: in it, and it just looks like you're this huge 444 00:26:14,560 --> 00:26:17,960 Speaker 1: thing just walking across the sky above you, so the 445 00:26:18,080 --> 00:26:22,240 Speaker 1: shadow is above. I can't remember what it's called, but 446 00:26:22,280 --> 00:26:24,360 Speaker 1: it's a pretty neat effect. I did a hike one 447 00:26:24,359 --> 00:26:27,600 Speaker 1: time in Big sur where we hiked up above the 448 00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:32,080 Speaker 1: cloud line and it's it's like when you fly above 449 00:26:32,119 --> 00:26:34,639 Speaker 1: it in a jet, except you're walking and you feel 450 00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:37,520 Speaker 1: like you're I mean, you can see nothing. It's weird. 451 00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:40,960 Speaker 1: It's like you're on top of the world. That's pretty sweet. Yeah, 452 00:26:40,960 --> 00:26:43,920 Speaker 1: it is very sweet. That's a heck of a hike, man. Yeah, 453 00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:46,000 Speaker 1: well they were they were low clouds in pixer. It 454 00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:48,600 Speaker 1: wasn't like the handies or anything like that. I mean, 455 00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:54,080 Speaker 1: it was a good hike helicopter exactly. Um, then I'm 456 00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:57,040 Speaker 1: sorry the mamatics clouds. If you live in New York City, 457 00:26:57,119 --> 00:26:59,920 Speaker 1: last year or if you have an Internet connection, you 458 00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:02,800 Speaker 1: might have seen these pictures of mo Maddis clouds, and 459 00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:05,400 Speaker 1: they are It doesn't happen often at all. That's why 460 00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:07,600 Speaker 1: people were like, what's going on in New York now 461 00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:12,679 Speaker 1: or being attacked? But they're big billowy balls all clumped together, 462 00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:16,359 Speaker 1: like hanging down from the underside of a cloud. And 463 00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:19,440 Speaker 1: that's why they're called mom Maddist clouds because it means 464 00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:22,680 Speaker 1: like utter or breast. Oh really, yeah, that makes sense. 465 00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:25,000 Speaker 1: And yeah and there I mean the there's the internets 466 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:27,040 Speaker 1: allowsy with pictures of it last year, really cool looking 467 00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:29,280 Speaker 1: because the sunset hit it at the right time and 468 00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:32,480 Speaker 1: it was like these billowy fireballs. It looked like it's 469 00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:36,679 Speaker 1: very intimidating. Cool but no harm, no fireballs, really no, 470 00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:41,800 Speaker 1: it's just clouds, just clouds, just ences. Uh you want 471 00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:43,640 Speaker 1: to cover any of those other ones? Well, the knock 472 00:27:43,680 --> 00:27:45,920 Speaker 1: de lucent cloud is pretty interesting. I have to say, 473 00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:48,480 Speaker 1: all right, there's this. If you are on Earth, you 474 00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:50,399 Speaker 1: would call it a knock de lucent cloud. If you 475 00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:52,879 Speaker 1: are up in space looking down on it, you'd call 476 00:27:52,920 --> 00:27:57,000 Speaker 1: it a polar mesospheric cloud. That's pretty interesting. This is 477 00:27:57,040 --> 00:28:01,679 Speaker 1: a very rare cloud. Um that at twilight. The apparently 478 00:28:01,720 --> 00:28:05,360 Speaker 1: the makeup of these clouds, uh there exists very high 479 00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:09,520 Speaker 1: up in the atmosphere, makes them glow blue, which is 480 00:28:09,920 --> 00:28:12,760 Speaker 1: unusual for clouds. And they actually think that these clouds 481 00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:16,680 Speaker 1: are new. They're not, I don't want to say, they're 482 00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:20,159 Speaker 1: not naturally occurring. They're not old. They haven't been around 483 00:28:20,359 --> 00:28:25,720 Speaker 1: since any time before three, which happens to be the 484 00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:31,480 Speaker 1: year that krakataw the volcano in Java, blew its top 485 00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:34,160 Speaker 1: and that's when people first started seeing these clouds. Right 486 00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:39,360 Speaker 1: after that happened, and apparently Krakataw um sent remember the 487 00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:46,280 Speaker 1: volcano episode. Okay, what was that stuff called tefla, te tefra. 488 00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:50,240 Speaker 1: It's sent Tefra as much as two D sixty two 489 00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:53,320 Speaker 1: thousand feet into the air, which is eighty kilometers into 490 00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:57,680 Speaker 1: the atmosphere, and apparently stayed there and started forming these clouds. 491 00:28:58,360 --> 00:29:00,120 Speaker 1: And well, the weird thing is is they thought that 492 00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:02,040 Speaker 1: this was just a temporary deal. But they've been around 493 00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:04,560 Speaker 1: ever since, right, yeah, they have. And they also think 494 00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:09,720 Speaker 1: that possibly pollution, meteoroids, and space shuttle activity are all 495 00:29:09,760 --> 00:29:15,560 Speaker 1: contributing to them. The continued existence of noct de lucent clouds, 496 00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:18,040 Speaker 1: which means shining at night. Yeah, these are cool looking. 497 00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:21,280 Speaker 1: These look like um, they almost look like Nebula. They're 498 00:29:21,320 --> 00:29:26,320 Speaker 1: sort of vainy looking and glowing, and uh, Nebula is 499 00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:28,440 Speaker 1: like nothing more than a cloud in space, right, it's 500 00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:31,000 Speaker 1: a space cloud. Yeah. And there's actually one called the 501 00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:33,800 Speaker 1: Smith Cloud, which is enormous and it's headed for the 502 00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:38,480 Speaker 1: Milky Way galaxy and when that, when it impacts in 503 00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:41,120 Speaker 1: twenty million years, it's going to put on quite a 504 00:29:41,120 --> 00:29:46,560 Speaker 1: show in the sky apparently, and it will rain down. Yeah, 505 00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:50,480 Speaker 1: well we won't be around to see that. There's clouds. 506 00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:53,200 Speaker 1: I thought it was gonna be cooler. It wasn't. I'm 507 00:29:53,240 --> 00:29:56,600 Speaker 1: sorry everybody. I thought it was cool. If you want 508 00:29:56,600 --> 00:30:00,200 Speaker 1: to learn more about clouds, including a little shout out 509 00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:04,520 Speaker 1: to the Cloud Appreciation Society, you can type in clouds 510 00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:06,880 Speaker 1: at the search bar at how stuff works dot com. 511 00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:09,520 Speaker 1: It'll bring that up. And of course, now it's time 512 00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:13,040 Speaker 1: for listener mail. Probably the most interesting part of this podcast. 513 00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:18,880 Speaker 1: It's definitely the most heart warning. Okay, uh, Josh, I'm 514 00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:24,000 Speaker 1: gonna call this. We're thinking about you, Jody, Hi, Josh 515 00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:26,120 Speaker 1: and Chuck and Jerry. I know you don't do this 516 00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:28,760 Speaker 1: kind of stuff. Much because you get way too many requests, 517 00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:30,840 Speaker 1: which is true, but this is we had to make 518 00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:33,640 Speaker 1: an exception here. This from Brendon, by the way, and 519 00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:38,440 Speaker 1: Brendon's fiance Jody, whose nickname is Frankie, has a rare 520 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:41,960 Speaker 1: form of leukemia and she's undergoing treatment for that right now. 521 00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:44,640 Speaker 1: The past couple of weeks have been really rough because 522 00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:47,600 Speaker 1: she's been really really sick, like to the point of 523 00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:50,320 Speaker 1: not being able to get out of bed. And unfortunately 524 00:30:50,720 --> 00:30:54,000 Speaker 1: I am over a thousand miles away finishing school, and 525 00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:56,240 Speaker 1: she really doesn't have anyone around to take care of 526 00:30:56,360 --> 00:30:59,800 Speaker 1: her at this point apart from the medical staff. Very sad. 527 00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:02,120 Speaker 1: One of the few things that's helping her to stay 528 00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:04,080 Speaker 1: sane while she is in bed trying not to be 529 00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:07,720 Speaker 1: sick and resisting passing out from pain is your podcast. 530 00:31:08,320 --> 00:31:10,960 Speaker 1: Your humor and unique fun information is a great distraction 531 00:31:11,840 --> 00:31:13,280 Speaker 1: from all the stuff she has to deal with. And 532 00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:15,200 Speaker 1: I cannot thank you enough for the quality show that 533 00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:18,000 Speaker 1: you produce. I really really appreciate it. If you could 534 00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:20,280 Speaker 1: somehow give her a shout out on the air, even 535 00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:24,560 Speaker 1: it's very generic, Hello to anybody out there who is 536 00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:28,480 Speaker 1: in pain hanging there, or if you could just plug 537 00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:32,280 Speaker 1: the National Bone Marrow Registry at b the match dot 538 00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:35,680 Speaker 1: org for something that would be cool. So we're going 539 00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:38,480 Speaker 1: to get specific and say, Jody A k A, Frankie 540 00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:41,920 Speaker 1: and U talk, hang in there, and I told Brendan 541 00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:47,040 Speaker 1: to keep us informed on Frankie's progress. And you guys 542 00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:49,280 Speaker 1: are getting married and there's you know, a lot to 543 00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:50,920 Speaker 1: look forward to. So I hope you get better soon 544 00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:54,600 Speaker 1: and listen to us while you're getting well and you 545 00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:57,080 Speaker 1: can getting hitched and getting hitched. I want to hear 546 00:31:57,080 --> 00:31:59,760 Speaker 1: about your wedding days. Want to hear about So that's 547 00:31:59,760 --> 00:32:04,480 Speaker 1: for joy. That was nice, Chuck, Hey, Jody A k A, 548 00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:09,600 Speaker 1: Frankie and Brendan and Brendan, and as Brendan suggested, everybody 549 00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:13,280 Speaker 1: out there who is in a lot of pain and listening, Uh, 550 00:32:13,280 --> 00:32:15,440 Speaker 1: it's possible that you're in a lot of pain because 551 00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:17,840 Speaker 1: you're listening. But if you've tried that and you're steal 552 00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:20,040 Speaker 1: in pain and you've gone back to listening, hey, and 553 00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:22,080 Speaker 1: hang in there with thinking of you. Yeah, we'll have 554 00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:23,320 Speaker 1: to tell him that this is going to be at 555 00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:25,400 Speaker 1: the end of the Clouds episode because he probably would 556 00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:27,680 Speaker 1: make it through it ordinary. No, No, that's a good point, Chow, 557 00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:30,120 Speaker 1: hang in there, listen to it. It's gonna be it's 558 00:32:30,120 --> 00:32:32,520 Speaker 1: gonna pay off there in the end. Well, let's see. 559 00:32:32,520 --> 00:32:35,000 Speaker 1: If you have a pretty cool picture of a cloud, 560 00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:38,720 Speaker 1: we want to see it. Go post it on Facebook. 561 00:32:38,920 --> 00:32:42,000 Speaker 1: How about that? Uh? 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