7 and air soft facts about the clouds

Autumn - time motley cirrus clouds and gray low clouds, and more recently, in the summer, the sky took vigorous herd of cumulus clouds ... The site offers little rise above the ground, to look into the heavenly blue and learn more about the clouds. < Although people call the clouds the air and light, it is not so. It's really a cloud of medium size can weigh up to 10 tons. Despite this, they are moved smoothly in the sky because their weight is distributed between multiple droplets or ice crystals.





Clouds not only difficult, but also very large. The droplets or crystals scattered airspace for many kilometers. So, the storm clouds away from their bottom to the top can reach 10 km.

Interestingly, the cloud can not be formed without any dust
In the cloud has a duration of "life». It depends on the humidity in the atmosphere. If the humidity is low, clouds begin to evaporate. Sometimes the "life" of the cloud may last no more than 15 minutes. When the humidity is relatively high, increases the likelihood of precipitation and cloud will remain over the land for a long time yet.

Any person associated with the sky clouds, but one artist is still Failed to create them in the room
The clouds have not only on Earth. They have been well documented on Mars and Venus, Titan (Saturn) and Triton (a satellite of Neptune). Here, however, the clouds have quite a different nature, which explains the conditions on these planets and satellites. For example, on the basis of Venus becomes sulfuric acid.

There is a Society of Friends of clouds - an international organization founded in 2004. This society brings together amateur meteorologists, physicists, photographers, artists and people who are not indifferent to the beauty of the clouds. They even have their own manifesto sounded very poetic:

We believe that cloud unfairly blackened, that without them, life would be much poorer. We think that the clouds - the very poetry of Nature , that of all it forms a cloud are the brightest exponents of the idea of ​​equality: they admire the fantastic views and everyone can. We commit ourselves to fight against the idea of ​​"cloudless sky" in all its manifestations. Life would be boring if we every day to watch the sky without clouds. We want to remind people that the clouds - spokesmen atmospheric mood, that it can be read the same way in the face of man. We believe that clouds are created for dreamers and that the contemplation of the clouds a beneficial effect on the soul. Those who are in the outlines of clouds some whimsical shapes do not have to pay the bill shrink. So, we appeal to all who hear us: Look up, admire the ephemeral beauty and live; soaring in the clouds.

via anydaylife.com/fact/post/2185

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