Earth & Space

How Clouds Form

Name: How Clouds Form
Duration: 78 s
Description: Warm wet air goes up, cools, and water condenses into trillions of tiny droplets. That's a cloud.

Warm wet air goes up, cools, and water condenses into trillions of tiny droplets. That's a cloud.

Look up. Those puffy white things up there look like cotton — but they're WATER. So why don't they fall? Why don't they look wet? How did they even get up there?

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Water VaporCondensationCumulus / Stratus / Cirrus