WEBVTT - Little, Fluffy Clouds 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:02.840 Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve camera. 0:00:03.160 --> 0:00:07.560 It's ready. Are you welcome to Stuff you should know 0:00:08.160 --> 0:00:16.360 from House Stuff Works dot Com. Hey, and welcome to 0:00:16.400 --> 0:00:19.439 the podcast. I'm Josh Clark, There's Charles W. Chump Bryant. 0:00:19.440 --> 0:00:22.799 We're gonna talk about cloud and we just had a 0:00:22.800 --> 0:00:27.160 parade of producers in here today. Yeah, we're third we recorded, 0:00:27.400 --> 0:00:29.800 we're recording to podcasts today and we're on our third 0:00:29.800 --> 0:00:32.440 producer Jerry is out, so we had guest producer Matt 0:00:32.680 --> 0:00:35.440 and then we had the head hunt. Well during sometime 0:00:35.520 --> 0:00:38.520 during the podcast, they switched without telling you, and Matt 0:00:38.560 --> 0:00:40.720 became Roxanna. Now we have Tyler and Josh made a 0:00:40.720 --> 0:00:42.919 really funny joke, which is, we just need to get 0:00:42.920 --> 0:00:46.080 one of those birds that has the water in it 0:00:46.360 --> 0:00:48.919 or something and just have it set over the our 0:00:49.000 --> 0:00:53.440 button so it can pack the record or a baby 0:00:53.800 --> 0:00:57.440 that can press our right, that's what we need. See 0:00:57.480 --> 0:00:59.600 Tyler's laughing. That's good. Yeah, that is. It was like 0:00:59.600 --> 0:01:04.280 a yeah, well, she probably thought correctly, like I shouldn't 0:01:04.319 --> 0:01:08.399 make any noise, right, Tyler's not thinking that. Uh, Chuck, 0:01:09.480 --> 0:01:14.319 have you ever seen a cloud? I have? I love 0:01:14.360 --> 0:01:16.200 clouds than out one for you. Have you ever heard 0:01:16.200 --> 0:01:19.760 of a man named Luke Howard? Spill it. It's a 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:24.200 good name, incident, Luke Howard, especially for the late eighteenth 0:01:24.200 --> 0:01:26.760 early nineteenth century. That's a good name for that. It's 0:01:27.040 --> 0:01:29.280 it's kind of like a a somebody our age would 0:01:29.319 --> 0:01:32.720 be named Luke Howard. You know, it just doesn't seem 0:01:32.720 --> 0:01:36.600 old timing to me. Well, okay, this guy named Luke Howard, 0:01:36.840 --> 0:01:42.160 young englishman, right, He's walking around planet Earth and everyone 0:01:42.200 --> 0:01:46.759 around him is calling um, well, yeah, he was born 0:01:46.760 --> 0:01:50.480 in seventeen seventy three, eighteen sixty four, didn't live to 0:01:50.480 --> 0:01:52.920 see the American Civil War come to a close, sadly, 0:01:53.280 --> 0:01:57.120 but he probably figured it would eventually. Possibly didn't predict 0:01:57.240 --> 0:02:03.280 the following year, but who knows. Well. Back during Luke 0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:07.440 Howard's time, before he was aged twenty, right, he was 0:02:07.440 --> 0:02:12.440 walking around and people were calling clouds essences like idiots, right, 0:02:12.440 --> 0:02:15.120 that's what we called clouds essences, Like look at that 0:02:15.240 --> 0:02:18.400 beautiful puffy essence in the sky, not even that, just like, 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:21.000 look at that essence. It's probably gonna eat us eventually, 0:02:21.080 --> 0:02:23.760 it's gonna eat the Earth. You know, we we didn't 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:29.240 understand gases very well. We didn't understand um different states 0:02:29.320 --> 0:02:33.240 of solidity liquid gas. What a time to be alive 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:36.639 it was. There was a time of ignorance and profound 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:40.680 um fear and wonder. Yeah. Yeah, there's a lot left 0:02:40.720 --> 0:02:45.639 to discover, right um. Well, Luke Howard helped put the 0:02:45.680 --> 0:02:50.040 kai bosh on that discovery by classifying clouds. First of all, 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:52.760 he started calling him clouds, not essences. He actually thought 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:55.440 up the name cloud. He was the first to call 0:02:55.520 --> 0:02:58.480 him clouds as far as I know. He at aged twenty, 0:02:58.600 --> 0:03:03.799 he called him Luke's yeah or Howard's miss about there, 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:08.840 look at that beautiful Howard little fluffy Howard's um. Anyway, 0:03:09.040 --> 0:03:13.720 uh Luke joined he was a pharmacist. He joined a 0:03:13.840 --> 0:03:19.120 group called the Eskisians, which means seekers of knowledge um 0:03:19.400 --> 0:03:24.360 and as basically to entertain themselves. Every week or whenever 0:03:24.400 --> 0:03:27.800 they met, each one would present a scientific paper like 0:03:27.840 --> 0:03:30.880 one would present for that night. And finally, when he's twenty, 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:34.480 uh Luke gets his turn to present a paper that 0:03:34.520 --> 0:03:38.280 he prepared and it's called on the modification of clouds, 0:03:38.280 --> 0:03:42.560 and modification meant what we would consider today classification and 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:47.160 in parentheses essences. So people knew what that Yeah, And 0:03:47.280 --> 0:03:50.800 that paper actually formed the basis of how we still 0:03:50.840 --> 0:03:54.520 classify clouds. This kid just kind of came up with 0:03:54.560 --> 0:03:57.120 it and it was just dead on. It just made 0:03:57.160 --> 0:04:00.920 such utter sense that hundreds of years later we still 0:04:01.040 --> 0:04:04.040 use his classification system. I would say that puts him 0:04:04.040 --> 0:04:07.840 in the realm of some of the great unknown, uh 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:10.360 important people on the planet. I would say that, you're right, 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:12.680 my friend, that's something. It's stuff of a genius episode 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:15.120 to me. Yes, it does. So should we should we 0:04:15.240 --> 0:04:17.919 run down the four main types of clouds that he 0:04:18.000 --> 0:04:22.960 thought of? Yeah, he basically classified them. He modified them, 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:26.720 in the parlance of the day, by their shape right 0:04:26.920 --> 0:04:31.720 or size, and their altitude and in a subcategory, their 0:04:31.760 --> 0:04:36.480 ability to precipitate on the earth. Right, all right, I'll 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:38.599 go ahead and read these off, because you know, Latin 0:04:38.720 --> 0:04:41.839 is my thing. Cumulus Josh means heap or pile. And 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:44.800 those are the ones, those are the money clouds. Those 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:46.919 are the ones that are flat on the bottom and 0:04:46.960 --> 0:04:51.679 real billyy puffy fluffy clouds. Fluffy clouds, but usually big 0:04:51.680 --> 0:04:55.960 not little. Yes. Uh. Stratus clouds are means layer and 0:04:56.000 --> 0:04:59.240 they are short and kind of spread across a distance. 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:03.640 You got the syrus, which means curl of hair, interesting, 0:05:04.440 --> 0:05:07.679 whispy and thin. And then you got the old nimbus 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:10.760 and those are rain clouds and it means rainy cloud, right, 0:05:10.920 --> 0:05:14.279 which ironically, maybe not ironically, it's probably a terrible word 0:05:14.320 --> 0:05:16.360 to use. But eight o eight State had a great 0:05:16.360 --> 0:05:19.600 song called Nimbus, and the orb had the song Little 0:05:19.640 --> 0:05:23.360 Fuffy Clouds that this episode is named after. We should, uh, 0:05:23.400 --> 0:05:26.200 that was a great song, Little Fuffy Fluffy Clouds. We 0:05:26.200 --> 0:05:28.240 should get that in here somehow, I think we should. 0:05:28.279 --> 0:05:30.279 It was on the It appeared on the album The 0:05:30.360 --> 0:05:34.559 Orbs Adventures Beyond the Ultra Worldly. Great album, the whole 0:05:34.560 --> 0:05:37.360 thing from beginning and just awesome. It's like Dark Side 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:41.800 of the Moon kind of except what's happier and techno year. Yeah. 0:05:41.960 --> 0:05:45.799 Have you ever been to Montana? No, I've been to Idaho, 0:05:45.920 --> 0:05:47.800 so I kind of have an idea of what you're 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:50.040 talking to. Deal. You know, I had a guy when 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:51.960 I was in Montana. Explain Because I lived in the 0:05:52.000 --> 0:05:55.560 desert of Yuma, Arizona for a while, and you can 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:58.080 see from horizon to horizon there, but a lot of 0:05:58.080 --> 0:06:01.960 times it's just blue sky, and so you know it's 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:04.880 it's it looks expansive. But then you go to Montana 0:06:05.000 --> 0:06:06.760 and they call it Big Skyland, and you get out 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:10.359 of the plane and you it's immediately looks larger. And 0:06:10.360 --> 0:06:11.839 a guy that lived there said it was because of 0:06:11.839 --> 0:06:16.480 the clouds. He said, they get these huge, long, abillowy 0:06:16.520 --> 0:06:19.039 cumulus clouds and it gives it a perspective that you 0:06:19.080 --> 0:06:21.279 don't get, like when it's just a blue sky in 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:23.800 the desert. And so it gives the illusion that this 0:06:23.920 --> 0:06:26.760 guy is actually larger. Right, So it sounded good to me. 0:06:27.000 --> 0:06:29.360 I didn't paint it on the clouds, but you can't tell. 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:35.360 There's a difference. It's enormous and vast fast. Yeah. Alright. 0:06:35.400 --> 0:06:37.520 So and for those of us, for those who really 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:42.360 pay attention to the podcast, there is no h on humor. 0:06:42.480 --> 0:06:46.960 It actually is pronounced. It's not humor, Josh shol We 0:06:46.960 --> 0:06:49.600 talk about types of clouds by altitude. Yes, I think 0:06:49.600 --> 0:06:53.560 we should, chuck. Let's start with high Yeah. Um. So 0:06:53.640 --> 0:06:58.080 we talked about we talked about based on size or shape, right, yes, um. 0:06:58.120 --> 0:07:00.240 And you can take those shapes and depending on where 0:07:00.240 --> 0:07:04.280 they are in altitude, they have different names, different prefixes. 0:07:04.400 --> 0:07:07.440 The high level clouds generally have some sort of prefixed 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:11.880 like zero. Right, So you've got serious clouds sero cumulus 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:17.760 and serious stratus clouds, and serious stratus clouds are often 0:07:17.960 --> 0:07:21.400 they're they're usually very high, very thin, and sometimes there's 0:07:21.440 --> 0:07:23.520 such a thin layer that you can only detect them 0:07:23.520 --> 0:07:27.000 when they're sucks deposed against the moon. Then you can 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:30.160 see that it's creating a halo effect. That's actually a 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:34.920 serious stratus cloud. Right, Yes, zero cumulus one of my favorites, 0:07:35.440 --> 0:07:40.280 very very high level, puffy cotton balls way up there. Yeah, 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:43.440 and then chuck take it home with cirrus. Uh. Serious 0:07:43.480 --> 0:07:47.240 clouds Josh are white and delicate, and their whispy, and 0:07:47.400 --> 0:07:51.320 they sometimes have little swirls at the end, uh, created 0:07:51.360 --> 0:07:54.160 by the wind, by the wind, by the end created 0:07:54.200 --> 0:07:57.760 by the wind. And you can like detect air patterns 0:07:57.760 --> 0:07:59.480 a lot of times by what it's doing to these 0:07:59.560 --> 0:08:01.400 kind of clouds. Yeah, or you can just lick your 0:08:01.440 --> 0:08:04.160 finger and hold it up. Yes, high level. We should 0:08:04.160 --> 0:08:06.160 point out the bottoms of the cloud. And it's always 0:08:06.200 --> 0:08:09.400 measured at the bottom because clouds can be pretty tall. Yeah, 0:08:09.440 --> 0:08:13.600 the bottom is usually between twenty forty feet not usually 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:15.960 that's how it's classified. This is when you have to 0:08:16.000 --> 0:08:19.640 break through when you're reaching your cruising altitude in an airplane. 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:24.120 Mats in here. Now you're joking, Tyler's gone, mats in here. 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:27.200 This is nuts. I have a feeling where the victims 0:08:27.200 --> 0:08:30.160 of some sort of practical joke perpetrated by the woman 0:08:30.200 --> 0:08:33.360 who says that you're listening to we should have a contest. 0:08:33.440 --> 0:08:38.199 You two can produce stuff you should know. Just show up. Yeah, 0:08:38.320 --> 0:08:41.360 we'll let you in. If you have a working index finger, 0:08:42.559 --> 0:08:45.560 you can produce stuff you should know. All right, let's 0:08:45.559 --> 0:08:48.400 go down to mid level clouds. And these have bottoms 0:08:48.480 --> 0:08:52.800 that began at about six hundred twenty thousand feet. Take 0:08:52.800 --> 0:08:55.680 it away. Well, the the mid level clouds are usually 0:08:55.679 --> 0:08:59.400 described by the prefixed alto, which makes mid level clouds 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:04.240 the Kenny of clouds. So you've got Alto cumulus alto stratus. 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:07.920 That written down or did you okay it's written down? 0:09:09.000 --> 0:09:13.040 I didn't want to forget Alto stratus. Yeah. Alto cumulus 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:17.800 are like sheets of um, like little round clouds um. 0:09:17.880 --> 0:09:21.680 And then they're kind of like Sero cumulus, but they 0:09:21.720 --> 0:09:26.440 have shading right um, which I hadn't really thought about. 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:33.160 But I've noticed the difference. Oh yeah, you know, I 0:09:33.160 --> 0:09:34.880 would encourage people that, you know, if you're at a 0:09:34.880 --> 0:09:36.400 computer and you're not just listening to this in the 0:09:36.440 --> 0:09:39.720 car or something, follow along like a type in Google images, 0:09:39.760 --> 0:09:42.559 he's you know, it helps. It does help, because this 0:09:42.600 --> 0:09:46.520 is really difficult to describe because you you know, you can. 0:09:46.720 --> 0:09:50.560 You can very easily pick out the cumulus clouds, the 0:09:50.960 --> 0:09:53.439 fluffy one, everyone's favorite. But once you start to get 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:57.120 into you know, serio cumulus, that kind of thing, it 0:09:57.160 --> 0:10:01.040 just becomes a little harder to describe. Well, imagine true 0:10:01.080 --> 0:10:03.920 Alto stratus, though, I will say you might know those 0:10:03.960 --> 0:10:06.880 because those are the really really solid, thick ones, so 0:10:06.960 --> 0:10:08.679 much so that that's when you're out on a sunny 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:11.600 day and one passes over and it gets noticeably dark 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:14.319 and you get shadows and things like that. Those are 0:10:14.360 --> 0:10:18.800 Alto stratus. And then the low level clouds you want 0:10:18.840 --> 0:10:22.199 to talk about them, yeah, below set right, So these 0:10:22.200 --> 0:10:25.800 are the ones that we would conceive of, um creating fog. 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:31.720 Yeah right, Um, there's Cumulus strato Cumulus stratus stratus clouds 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:34.520 are the ones that resemble fog, that make this guy 0:10:34.600 --> 0:10:37.800 look overcast, where it's just like you can't tell it's 0:10:37.840 --> 0:10:40.080 nothing but clouds or else if it's just kind of 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:42.679 a great day or what's going on? Did you hit 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:46.679 your head that kind of thing. Yeah, And there's also 0:10:46.760 --> 0:10:50.439 the classic fair weather cumulus, and those are the those 0:10:50.440 --> 0:10:52.600 are the money clouds, that's when it's really bright and blue, 0:10:53.080 --> 0:10:57.160 big puffy cotton balls that look like funny rabbits or 0:10:57.200 --> 0:11:00.720 Lyndon Johnson or whatever. Right. And then there's there's strato 0:11:00.800 --> 0:11:04.880 cumulus um where you can usually pick those out at 0:11:04.960 --> 0:11:08.440 night as well, um most easily because they're the ones 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:11.439 that pass in front of the moon, right, and there's 0:11:11.440 --> 0:11:14.679 like breaks in them, and that's strato cumulus. So like 0:11:14.960 --> 0:11:18.280 it's it's so strange to think because you've experienced in 0:11:18.320 --> 0:11:23.760 your thirty nine thirty nine years walking around this planet 0:11:23.880 --> 0:11:27.240 all these different types of clouds, right, but you might 0:11:27.280 --> 0:11:29.800 as well have been walking around calling them essences because 0:11:29.840 --> 0:11:32.960 we didn't really realize that they have all these different classifications. 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:35.679 Are that the ones that the moon breakthrough here there 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:40.160 are actually um strato cumulus right um. The ones that 0:11:40.200 --> 0:11:44.160 are the big, big fluffy clouds are cumulus. The ones 0:11:44.200 --> 0:11:48.520 that rain are nimbus, Yeah, Cumulo nimbus clouds are thunderstorm 0:11:48.559 --> 0:11:53.360 clouds basically low level and uh nimbus stratus are also 0:11:53.559 --> 0:11:56.320 very the dark, low hanging clouds, right, and those are 0:11:56.400 --> 0:11:59.840 attached into like this kind of extra category called vertically 0:11:59.840 --> 0:12:03.320 to veloped clouds. Right. Um, these things are so tall, 0:12:03.760 --> 0:12:07.800 so large, and they form vertically uh in these piles 0:12:07.840 --> 0:12:14.160 that they actually transcend altitudes, they cross over altitudinal boundaries. Okay, 0:12:14.160 --> 0:12:16.760 so they creep into different like low level and mid 0:12:16.840 --> 0:12:21.960 level right yeah. Um, so those are the types of clouds. Right. 0:12:22.080 --> 0:12:25.720 Are you still with us? I am yeah, if I 0:12:25.760 --> 0:12:27.640 was not in it, we got through the boring part. 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:31.160 Now we're going to talk about how clouds form, right, yeah, 0:12:31.880 --> 0:12:34.760 this is a good part. I agree. Evaporation and well 0:12:35.400 --> 0:12:37.559 let's start this out with something that comes later in 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:42.240 the article. Clouds are collections of little water droplets and 0:12:42.320 --> 0:12:45.839 crystallized water molecules. That's what a cloud is, right, We 0:12:45.880 --> 0:12:49.160 should have led the show off with that. Basically, cloud forms. 0:12:49.320 --> 0:12:52.720 And here if you ever are wondering how cloud forms, 0:12:52.720 --> 0:12:56.160 if anyone ever asks you, just bust this out. Clouds 0:12:56.160 --> 0:13:02.120 form when warm, moist air encounters cooler air. Simple as that. Sure, Um, 0:13:02.200 --> 0:13:05.560 we can get into a little more complexity, shall we Yes, Uh, 0:13:05.840 --> 0:13:08.400 think about a hot day and you have like pour 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:10.959 some water on the asphalt on a hot day, it's 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:15.920 going to evaporate quicker. And you a dummy would just say, 0:13:15.920 --> 0:13:18.920 well it's hot, right, Yeah, But the reasons happening is 0:13:18.920 --> 0:13:22.000 because the water molecules are are more excited it's hot, 0:13:22.000 --> 0:13:24.600 They're moving around more, they can spread out further, can 0:13:24.640 --> 0:13:27.360 spread out from a body of water and then basically 0:13:27.440 --> 0:13:30.679 bust free into water vapor more easily. Right, And Toothman 0:13:30.720 --> 0:13:35.000 who wrote this article uses the example of a bird bath, right, yes, 0:13:35.400 --> 0:13:37.800 but you can use the bird bath is pretty much 0:13:37.800 --> 0:13:40.880 a metaphor for any body of water on Earth. Clouds 0:13:40.960 --> 0:13:45.400 ultimately formed from the evaporation of water on the Earth's surface. Which, 0:13:45.600 --> 0:13:49.120 uh so, these water molecules become excited turn into water vapor, 0:13:49.520 --> 0:13:52.680 which is capable of interacting with the air. They may 0:13:53.040 --> 0:13:57.160 rise up when they encounter cooler air higher up, they're 0:13:57.200 --> 0:14:01.720 going to condense all of a sudden and full warm clouds. Right, 0:14:01.800 --> 0:14:05.240 that's called a convective cloud boom. It can also happen 0:14:05.320 --> 0:14:09.280 when warm moist air encounters a cold front, just a 0:14:09.320 --> 0:14:11.840 piece of cold air that's not necessarily higher in altitude, 0:14:11.840 --> 0:14:13.600 but it's coming in front the right or the left. 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:16.800 And then along that front where the warm moist air 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:19.200 meets the edge of the coal. There the edge that's 0:14:19.200 --> 0:14:23.720 created that's going to cause precipitation boom again and clouds, 0:14:24.280 --> 0:14:27.520 clouds josh also form a little easier if the water 0:14:27.600 --> 0:14:31.680 vapor uh, that's evaporating, how something to grab onto so 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:34.080 that allows it to change into a liquid or solid 0:14:34.080 --> 0:14:38.800 phase easier. And they call these condensation nuclei or freezing nuclei. 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:42.520 Sounds fancy, it's really what we're talking about is dust, 0:14:42.960 --> 0:14:46.600 sea salt. There's like a wildfire, soot from the wildfire 0:14:47.200 --> 0:14:51.520 stuff in the air serve as particulate matter, yeah, particular matter, 0:14:51.600 --> 0:14:55.200 and that that serves to make the clouds form quicker. Right, 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:58.080 because what you have is something that it forms the 0:14:58.200 --> 0:15:01.760 nucleus of this water opplet, and it starts attracting more 0:15:01.760 --> 0:15:05.000 and more and more and more, and then eventually this uh, 0:15:05.120 --> 0:15:08.440 this water droplet gets so heavy that it can't be 0:15:08.520 --> 0:15:12.200 sustained against the force of gravity any longer, which pulls 0:15:12.240 --> 0:15:15.240 it down to Earth as a rain drop, or if 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:17.680 it's cold enough, pulls it down to earth as a 0:15:17.760 --> 0:15:20.520 nice crystal, which you might know and love as a 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:25.120 snowflake meteorology with Josh Clark. Before we move on to that, 0:15:25.160 --> 0:15:26.600 which is awesome, I do want to point out that 0:15:26.720 --> 0:15:29.720 one of the other things that can serve as a 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:34.760 uh condensation nuclei is bacteria. Plant bacteria and the air 0:15:35.520 --> 0:15:40.720 can help clouds form more quickly. That's right. It's weird, man, 0:15:41.960 --> 0:15:43.720 is it weird? I don't know it just it is 0:15:43.720 --> 0:15:48.920 to me. Why we know you can't see it. It's happening, 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:51.600 but you can't see it. So anything I can't see 0:15:51.640 --> 0:15:57.880 it's just weird. Not weird. That ultra violet light. Yeah, yeah, okay, alright, 0:15:58.080 --> 0:16:06.360 microscopic stuff as weird. I hate art. Alright, chuck. Clouds 0:16:06.360 --> 0:16:08.960 move around, we should say, because the difference in the 0:16:08.960 --> 0:16:11.440 air temperature within the cloud then outside it. You can 0:16:11.480 --> 0:16:14.080 push it around here and there. Yeah, let's look a 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:16.240 good way to look at clouds that I realized from 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:21.320 researching this article is that um clouds almost follow the 0:16:21.320 --> 0:16:24.920 first law of thermodynamics, Right, They can't be created or destroyed, 0:16:25.320 --> 0:16:28.480 They just change formation. Right. If you look at clouds 0:16:28.520 --> 0:16:31.440 as part of the rain cycle, right that that that 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:35.080 is basically this interaction between the water on the earth 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:38.680 surface and the atmosphere, and they're they're a reaction. They're 0:16:38.720 --> 0:16:41.960 part of this reaction. Different types of clouds, right. Um. 0:16:42.080 --> 0:16:44.840 Then they're they're constantly moving. This water vapor is either 0:16:45.320 --> 0:16:49.920 in the air, invisible as water vapor, visible as a cloud, 0:16:50.240 --> 0:16:54.120 or visible as part of the water on the earth surface. Right. 0:16:54.400 --> 0:16:57.440 So clouds like churn into one another. It's not like 0:16:57.680 --> 0:17:00.640 I'm a cumulus cloud now, I'm just gone, right. They'll 0:17:00.680 --> 0:17:03.000 usually turn into one another as they rise and fall, 0:17:03.800 --> 0:17:05.840 and then it's all, yeah, it's a part of the 0:17:05.840 --> 0:17:10.000 big cycle. Right. So say that you have a big 0:17:10.000 --> 0:17:15.240 old cumulus cloud, nice warm, moist cumulus cloud, all right, 0:17:15.400 --> 0:17:17.920 love them, and it hits a wedge of coal. Are 0:17:18.200 --> 0:17:23.040 that cold front causes precipitation? Right? Um? And it's actually 0:17:23.480 --> 0:17:28.640 usually when a warm a warm cloud meets cold there 0:17:28.920 --> 0:17:32.960 the warm clouds forced up, right uh, And it's going 0:17:33.000 --> 0:17:36.000 to cool, which will cause precipitation. But it's also going 0:17:36.040 --> 0:17:38.200 to cause that cloud to just rise further and further 0:17:38.280 --> 0:17:40.480 and it's going to evolve, so it'll hit that middle 0:17:40.760 --> 0:17:45.320 altitude and become like an Alto stratus or alto cumulus cloud. 0:17:45.520 --> 0:17:47.880 It's gonna break up a little further and finally will 0:17:47.920 --> 0:17:51.280 probably reach into the upper atmosphere and become a serious cloud. 0:17:51.960 --> 0:17:56.160 And then you know, um jazz hands or what is it? 0:17:56.600 --> 0:18:00.919 What does those hands call? Dream hands? Dream and it 0:18:00.960 --> 0:18:04.080 turns back into water vapor possibly just kind of drifts 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:06.879 along until it reaches the right conditions to become a 0:18:06.880 --> 0:18:09.440 cloud again, or it might just travel back to Earth 0:18:10.400 --> 0:18:12.879 and condense into a body of water. You could do 0:18:12.920 --> 0:18:15.880 a little one man show dream hand Josh explains clouds 0:18:15.880 --> 0:18:19.000 through uh beats and physical movements. Have you seen the 0:18:19.080 --> 0:18:22.040 dream Hands video? And now I have gotta show you this. 0:18:22.400 --> 0:18:24.560 I thought you were talking about the rainbow guy at first. 0:18:25.040 --> 0:18:28.120 Which one is that full double rainbow? No, it's very 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:31.919 similar to that. That guy's he's full of one. He's like, 0:18:31.960 --> 0:18:37.000 look at those essences of something. Uh. So we talked 0:18:37.000 --> 0:18:38.800 about rain a little bit, We talked about snow a 0:18:38.800 --> 0:18:42.520 little bit. This is what I found most interesting. What 0:18:42.520 --> 0:18:45.440 what about the others? What about sleep? Freezing rain, and hail? 0:18:46.280 --> 0:18:49.920 I found this endlessly interesting. I did because freezing rain, 0:18:49.960 --> 0:18:51.920 I mean, I didn't know how any of this stuff worked. 0:18:52.160 --> 0:18:54.320 And I was in I took a meteorology class in college. 0:18:54.320 --> 0:18:57.639 I guess it just sort of left my brain space 0:18:57.720 --> 0:19:02.320 at some point. But freezing and Josh is when it's 0:19:02.320 --> 0:19:06.080 a snowflake at first falls down through the atmosphere, gets 0:19:06.119 --> 0:19:10.680 a little warmer, melts, turns back into rain, continues to fall, 0:19:10.920 --> 0:19:14.840 passes through another layer of cold air, becomes super cool, 0:19:14.960 --> 0:19:18.400 but it doesn't refreeze, hits the ground and hits something 0:19:18.440 --> 0:19:21.640 so cold on the ground that it freezes. Right, that's 0:19:21.640 --> 0:19:25.080 freezing rain. Yes, that's different than sleep sleets, sort of 0:19:25.119 --> 0:19:28.600 the same thing, except it actually has enough time to refreeze. 0:19:29.119 --> 0:19:31.440 The melted snowflake refreezes before it hits the ground the 0:19:32.119 --> 0:19:34.919 cold air, right, you know that's on the ground and 0:19:35.040 --> 0:19:38.159 up as big enough so that it as that droplet 0:19:38.320 --> 0:19:43.160 is passing through, it refreezes and then take it away. Hale. Well, 0:19:43.280 --> 0:19:49.480 hail is particularly interesting because it's associated with um severe 0:19:49.520 --> 0:19:53.160 storms that have a lot of updrafts and gusts within it. Right, 0:19:53.560 --> 0:19:57.879 So this the the ice crystals or the rain droplets 0:19:57.920 --> 0:20:00.560 are being kicked up and around, and you know it's 0:20:00.600 --> 0:20:04.600 freezing in in thawing and refreezing and more water vapors 0:20:04.640 --> 0:20:08.560 being attracted to it, and the gusts are strong enough 0:20:09.000 --> 0:20:13.480 that this can be prolonged so that it turns into 0:20:13.600 --> 0:20:17.480 ice chunks the size of like Evolvo. It collects more stuff. Basically, 0:20:17.640 --> 0:20:19.600 is it's going down than the wind says no, no no, no, 0:20:19.640 --> 0:20:21.399 you're going back up, And it goes back down. Then 0:20:21.400 --> 0:20:23.919 it goes back up, and then do you have, like 0:20:23.960 --> 0:20:27.800 you said, damage damaging hail. Right, Uh, it just can't 0:20:27.800 --> 0:20:30.640 be sustained any longer. It's just too heavy. Which that's 0:20:30.680 --> 0:20:33.959 the story with all precipitation, right, Yeah, it's the stuff 0:20:34.000 --> 0:20:36.240 forming up in the atmosphere out of water and it's 0:20:36.240 --> 0:20:38.800 either cold enough to freeze, or it's not so it's 0:20:38.880 --> 0:20:41.840 rain or it's snow, and then it becomes so fat 0:20:41.880 --> 0:20:44.240 that gravity can't support it any longer. The wonders of 0:20:44.400 --> 0:20:49.119 the earth. Chunks of ice can form out of invisible 0:20:49.359 --> 0:20:52.480 nothing's in the air and fall on your car. Isn't 0:20:52.480 --> 0:20:55.680 that awesome? It is pretty awesome, like this kind of stuff. 0:20:55.680 --> 0:20:57.640 I used to sit on the my roof in college 0:20:57.640 --> 0:20:59.920 and talk about, you know, with my friends endlessly. Really 0:21:00.800 --> 0:21:03.840 I used to talk about the Illuminati. Oh yeah, well 0:21:03.880 --> 0:21:08.760 that too. My friend Jason actually that lives in Japan. Now, 0:21:08.800 --> 0:21:11.040 he was my first friend to turn me onto all 0:21:11.080 --> 0:21:14.200 these like stuff they don't want you to know type stuff. 0:21:14.520 --> 0:21:16.919 He was everyone had that first friend. I was like, 0:21:17.080 --> 0:21:20.960 what secret societies? Tell me more? And I was like, 0:21:21.000 --> 0:21:24.399 clouds are cool. Yeah. I have to say I was 0:21:24.440 --> 0:21:27.160 a little disappointed. I thought this was gonna be. This 0:21:27.280 --> 0:21:29.880 ended up being more of like, well, we gotta understand 0:21:29.920 --> 0:21:32.880 this to understand everything, and I see I was blown away. 0:21:32.960 --> 0:21:35.200 Where are you really? I'm glad, Yeah, I'm glad. Man 0:21:36.000 --> 0:21:39.720 childlike wonder, Josh. Let's talk about why clouds. What they do. 0:21:42.840 --> 0:21:45.800 One of the things they do is move dust. Yeah, 0:21:45.960 --> 0:21:50.440 and is mind blowing. I think it is. What is 0:21:50.480 --> 0:21:53.320 it thirteen million tons? Well that's just between Africa and 0:21:53.359 --> 0:21:57.080 a certain spot of the Amazon basin. It is kind 0:21:57.119 --> 0:22:01.280 of at least to desertification. Well can One of the 0:22:01.359 --> 0:22:05.600 cool things about clouds is that if you have particular matter, 0:22:05.800 --> 0:22:09.440 as we saw, whether it's plant bacteria or from wildfires, um, 0:22:09.480 --> 0:22:13.440 it's going to cause precipitation a lot more easily, which 0:22:13.480 --> 0:22:17.040 is the idea behind cloud seating, right, like the disaster 0:22:17.200 --> 0:22:21.040 by the Royal Air Force in where they seated clouds 0:22:21.040 --> 0:22:24.000 and like ninety million tons of rain hit in a 0:22:24.119 --> 0:22:27.639 day and killed a lot of people in Great Britain, 0:22:28.080 --> 0:22:30.119 and the Royal Air Force is like, whoops is going 0:22:30.160 --> 0:22:32.359 to be classified till two thousand one. And when I 0:22:32.359 --> 0:22:34.760 say it worked, I don't mean I mean it worked 0:22:34.920 --> 0:22:37.399 like it rained so much or not? It worked awesome. 0:22:37.400 --> 0:22:41.040 They killed people China. UM did their bid to control 0:22:41.119 --> 0:22:46.439 the weather by dissipating clouds by impregnating them with silver 0:22:46.520 --> 0:22:50.080 eyedie cloud seating, and apparently we're doing it. We're using 0:22:50.080 --> 0:22:53.600 this to UM to control climate change as well. The 0:22:53.680 --> 0:22:57.199 problem is if you have too much particulate matter, uh, 0:22:57.280 --> 0:23:00.359 it's going to spread out and the water droplets that 0:23:00.359 --> 0:23:02.359 are going to be attracted to it are going to 0:23:02.400 --> 0:23:06.440 be very small because there's maybe one piece of particular 0:23:06.520 --> 0:23:09.119 matter for every water droplet, rather than one piece for 0:23:09.680 --> 0:23:12.600 every million water droplets, which are going to form big 0:23:12.640 --> 0:23:16.919 fat rain drops. Right. So therefore that leads to desertification. 0:23:18.280 --> 0:23:22.520 Did that make sense? Okay? I wonder since bacteria can 0:23:22.560 --> 0:23:27.720 serve as a particulate I wonder if potentially you could 0:23:27.720 --> 0:23:31.560 have disease rained down upon a nation. I would imagine, 0:23:31.560 --> 0:23:34.520 So there's a movie platform you right there, buddy, Hey, 0:23:34.560 --> 0:23:37.520 it's going on all around us right now, is it? Sure. 0:23:38.000 --> 0:23:39.760 All right, so let's talk about what else they do 0:23:39.800 --> 0:23:41.840 to the Earth. They serve as a bar area for 0:23:42.040 --> 0:23:46.560 heat both coming in and out. They absorb about of 0:23:46.600 --> 0:23:50.120