Everything You Want to Know About Clouds 

Chuck Nice is such a hero for playing the listening ear in all of these discussions. He obviously knows more than he lets on but he plays "the audience" in a gracious and effective way.

You guys have a great infographics person.

This kind of thing is my jam. I'm a glider pilot. And everything in this video are things we glider pilots constantly think about. A big puffy cumulus cloud signifies the top of a a rising air mass called a thermal. So if we circle beneath the cloud we can ride the rising air mass up to the cloud base. "If you watch it for five minutes...no one does this." Glider pilots do. We spend a lot of time (both when we are on the ground and in the air) trying to see where a cloud is starting to form or alternatively if a cloud is already there is it stable or is it starting to dissipate. We are trying to determine If I aim for that spot over there will there be a thermal beneath it by the time I get there? We also love cloud streets. If we get a day with nice streeting we can just hang out under a street and fly along without stopping to circle. Lenticular clouds (or lennies as we call them) also signify an area of strong lift that we can ride. A cirrus layer is typically a bad sign for us. That will normally reflect the sun preventing the sun from being able to heat the ground and the thermals will shut down. Or if the cumulus clouds start to overdevelop and start to form a sheet and the sky becomes overcast (known as a stratus layer) that will also shut down the thermals. If we are up and a cirrus layer or stratus layer starts forming we know we need to be looking for an airport so we don't end up landing in a farmer's field somewhere.

I love how you bring up subjects I'd never care about on my own, and still get me hooked! Thank you, Neil

i never thought clouds could be cool and yet here we are

1. Good ol’ Fog: Simple, grounded and down to Earth 2. Those other Clouds: All high up in the sky, highfalutin, rainin’ on our parade

We all wish we had teachers like him in schools!

As a pilot (often doing bush piloting with no weather stations around), clouds are a thesaurus for decoding weather. A large portion of my time goes into reading them and getting familiar with local weather watching clouds. Cool video.

There is a whole sub field of meteorology called Cloud Physics that studies the dynamics and microphysics of different types of clouds and precipitation. I’m a meteorologist and appreciates this video.

I’m probably just being nit-picky but on the weather map you had both the high pressure and low pressure system spinning clockwise. I’m the northern hemisphere, high pressure systems (anticyclones) spin clockwise and low pressure systems (cyclones) spin counterclockwise due to Earth’s rotation via the Coriolis effect. They both spin opposite directions in the southern hemisphere.

Neil and Chuck, y'all rock! Peace

Thanks guys. Always a good education in a way that makes you smile. Happy 4th from Wisconsin.

So, my very first plane ride, back in 2000, I was flying from NY to FL. I had a window seat and I saw the most beautiful cloud pillars on the top side of the clouds in what looked like an ocean of clouds, once we reached cruising altitude. The whole flight all I did was look at the clouds because I had never been in a flight before.

Clouds have saved so many lives!

Best explanation about clouds, ever

This is one of your best "explainers"!!! I have always had questions about clouds and you explained them simply and clearly! I've always wondered why clouds seem to have an "edge". Great video!

I live in the South Central region of the Appalachian Mountains of PA and I see some of the coolest clouds because of where I am, it's so cool and it's unlike anywhere else that I've been.... The noctilucent clouds are plentiful as is the "Cotton Candy" skies, as I've come to call it because it gets a hot pink color and a baby blue color at a specific time before sunset. It's just beautiful and I wish everyone could see it at least once in their lifetime.... It's like going to a far away beach and watching the sunset except it's through the mountains and you don't really see the sun, just its crazy effects shining through the mountains and valleys. It's probably my favorite sky screensaver and I could watch it for days and never get sick of it..... 🌤️❤😁👍

Educational Entertainment to the MAX!!!!!!! GREAT Video ❤ I Love StarTalk

One of my favourite podcasts.

Thank you for the smiles you two guys are wonderful

Neil and chuck really make star talk so amazingly awesome! Love the channel and content, always looking up!!👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸❤️❤️❤️🇵🇷

I used to live in the mountains and I’d see lenticulars fairly often. The coolest though is when they get blown off the top of the mountain and just float on by. Sometimes you’d see a few all in a row.

Love your podcast, Dr. Tyson! I have always been interested in clouds. Please continue this conversation for clouds on other planets!

Imagine hailstones bigger than a cricket ball coming down. I experienced this the first time in 1990, where the region I live in here in South Africa, is prone to freak tornadoes every couple of decades. Then, there was one day, where it hailed for most of the day, the size of marbles. 😊

I love clouds ☁️. I really wish I could remember all the types and their names! Thanks, gentlemen for this overview.

I live in the Reno / Tahoe area and constantly enjoy our Lenticular Clouds!

I'm always captivated by clouds, which is why I clicked on this video. It was absolutely worth spending 11 minutes and 14 seconds of my day watching it.

I loved this video. Very informative, thanks!

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="244">4:04</a> words I never thought I'd hear from Dr Tyson

Awesome explainer! You literally answered all my cloud questions.

Love the joni Mitchell reference

This is one of my favorite topics ...the thing which fascinates about the cloud is , how this massive structures be up this high in the sky ? I feel relaxed seeing them 😌

Nobody knows clouds like I do....as a meteorologist from the cloudiest place on earth...Ireland. I loved this topic, not because it was new information to me, but because you and chuck always bring good fun to uncommon knowledge and make it interesting. I will say however, some information was a little off. Both cold fronts AND warm fronts produce rain, it is mainly called so because of the air that is replacing/pushing into the other. For example, as warm air pushes into colder air the warm air rises over the top of it, causing clouds/rain. Vice versa, as cold air pushes into/replaces warm air it forces the warmer air upwards. The greater the difference in temperature between the two airmasses usually the more vigorous the front becomes. Also, that infographic of a High Pressure system going clockwise on the West Coast of the states.....tut tut....should be anti-cyclonic. :P Good fun all the same though. Always enjoy the shows. :)

I love clouds and take photos of clouds on my iPhone.

Neil, This was so informing and entertaining it's just like Saturday morning cartoons as a kid again!

🌤️ Seattleite lovin this convo! 😂 Thank you for keepin us all lifted! 🌬️💞🌤️

I literally searched two days ago this topic on your channel and couldn't find what I was looking for. Thank you for this.

Chuck's reaction when he thought he was learning an all new science word was great! Such genuine excitement thinking something new was discovered and named. Lol.

As a former weather observer in the usaf clouds have always interested me. Seeing the title put a smile on my face.

Your information on hail definitely explains why I have experienced hail in both Phoenix and Tucson, in Arizona during the monsoon season. This was a fantastic video, awesome work to all of you!

I always wondered about this topic. Thank you so much Neil.

Science rules! Thanks, Professor Tyson and Mr. Nice!! Keep the knowledge flowing!✌️

I like the new intro graphics

Explainer. Bestes Format auf RU-vid! Danke Star Talk! 👍😁👋 Und Chuck ist sowieso der Beste 🤣

My favorite explainer so far well done!

I do wish i could take a chem class taught by dr. Tyson hes a great teacher from my perspective

love it... Keep em coming. Thank you

Fascinating

Cool clips 👍

This is perfect! I've always had interest in "random" or most would think, "useless", things but i've always put my curiosity aside so now that i've found this channel, i'm gonna check it out often ^^

The hurricanes part was explained effortlessly! So cool.

Another educational and fun video. Thank you!

I love clouds and take pictures almost daily. ❣️❤️

You guys are the best, I didn't think much of clouds once I understood the basics but wow

great episode

Excellent discussion. The weather channel should run this. Neil: you should have touched on the super cool Mammatus clouds.

Very informative.

Awesome explainer😮

Thanks guys, salute as always from Holland 😊❤

Clouds in astrophysics offer a fascinating glimpse into the cosmos! Whether it’s the clouds of gas and dust forming stars or the cosmic clouds influencing galaxy dynamics, they play a crucial role in shaping our universe. Always intriguing to study their impact on celestial evolution!!!

I wonder every time I look up. And now I have the answers. Tqsm

Amazing!!

This is so awesome 😊

thnks for this valuable content mister

I remember seeing one of the noctilucent clouds at a music festival a few summers ago from a space x launch and it was so mesmerizing. It really looked like a multicolored space cloud

I’m liking Neil doing weather !!

Thank you!

This is amazing

really good thankyou very much 🙂

Very neat and beautiful explainer ❤ love that Neil 🫶🏾

Make more and more and more please , you delighting my day and make me love life more… please make more of this, humanity need you❤️

Table Mountain in Cape Town is known for its iconic table cloth of clouds. This makes so much more sense now that I know that those clouds are only there because of the mountain.

Love you both !!! Thank you!

I learned more about clouds in 11 minutes than I did in many years of schooling. Thanks Neil!

I heard about the influence of gravitational waves in the formation of special types of clouds, like those roll clouds and some cirrus clouds

you continue to educate me, and I am here happily waiting, eta, after the finish....first, I feel so dumb even commenting, but second.....ty, Sir, for these videos.

Interesting, I was even thinking about the clouds in the morning!

I love to look at clouds thanks for making me love them more 💜

it always amazes me to see the outstanding comedian Chuck Nice on display! and this guy Neil is also cool

Temperatures are also relative. A cold front can still be pretty warm but also cause turbulent weather.

Cold front = Drunk uncle at the cookout

Love the show man

I would live to see follow-ups of this exploring other aspects of dynamic weather, like lightning, tornadoes and dust storms, and compare how they seem to work on Earth with our best models of how they might work on other worlds, like Mars, Jupiter and Titan.

Another great explainer! Might have been good to also include lighting.

it is feeling great to watch Dr tyson explain all those sci. facts with such way make you asking for more.

I love clouds. We get a lot of them in Singapore and good too - otherwise it would become so hot.

Wow i love this

I love the new word noctilucent.

you guys should teach a whole school curriculum, love your show you guys are the best!!

Ok, so last year I was in San Francisco, and there's a part of SF where you can see clouds float right in front of you. Normally, I would call it fog, but these were cloud formations and they floated right by us like in cartoons. I know what fog is, but I have never seen fog form like clouds at eye level until then.

This is a great video the cram so showing off all your cloud knowledge to your kid cousins, thank you!

I was just wondering all about clouds this is perfect lol 🎉❤

Thanks for so many simple but funny and exiting facts!

I love clouds!

I didn't expect to enjoy this topic but I recently moved to Eastern CO and hail happens.

What a coincidence, I just got back from a talk about noctilucent clouds at the Norman Lockyer observatory

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="389">6:29</a> I like how Neil just forgot the word "rows"

an very interresting them and i learn more english as a german guy thanks for talking about those theme

Cosmic Shiplets... Always a pleasure!

Noctilucent clouds got my attention!