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They may look comfy to sit on but you’d plummet through and hit the ground. Sam Schooler/Unsplash

What would it feel like to touch a cloud?

Katja Friedrich, University of Colorado Boulder

You might have already felt what it would be like inside a cloud made of condensed water vapor.
Sometimes air goes up past the condensation level then falls back below the condensation level, then up, then below, again and again. This creates clouds that are stripy, often with lines between the clouds. Robert Lawry/Author provided

Curious Kids: where do clouds come from and why do they have different shapes?

Robert Lawry, Australian Bureau of Meteorology

Clouds formed by rising warm air currents are called ‘convection clouds’. Because of all the rising air coming up, these clouds can be bumpy on top, sometimes looking like cotton wool or cauliflower.

Thèmes connexes

  1. Clouds
  2. Curious Kids
  3. Curious Kids US
  4. Global warming
  5. Greenhouse gas emissions (GHG)
  6. Respiratory illness
  7. Snow
  8. Water cycle
  9. Weather

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