Cloud formation (please read the description)

Описание: I am not close to any college or university, where I'm at. An hour away from any one. School is starting soon, and I kind of enjoy the shift in rhythm the school season brings on. I don't have higher learning students to speak to about this topic, so I'm putting this here on my channel.

As I'm sure you know, water has "states". Water can be liquid, or solid, or gas, or possibly a number of other states according to a paper I found a couple years ago.

In recent years, there have been cloud formations so unusual that new categories or classifications have been made in addition to the ones we already know and use (i.e. stratus, nimbus, cumulonimbus, etc). Being as far away as I am from the academic hot spots as I am, I'm not up•to•date on the cutting edge of cloud study, so I don't know if this thought is pertinent or not, but I pose it now in case it is. Perhaps it's relevant to some research somewhere that someone is doing.

The state of water is relative to the conditions it is in. If it's in a cold environment, it might be ice. A very hot one, steam. In between, water. The state of water is tied to the conditions.

In general, our view of conditions is limited to our "lens", our sense of time and space. How much time and how much space. But the spectrum of time and space can vary much more than what we commonly use in our day to day life.

What I got wondering about is, what if these new cloud types are forming because of conditions we don't normally experience? What occurs to me is water about to boil.

Water heating up turns from liquid to gas. In between, there is a point when bubbles start to form on the bottom of the pan without rising, exhibiting a property similar to a meniscus, perhaps. Air is lighter than water, right? So why does a bubble stick to the bottom and not immediately rise?

Is it possible that the cloud formations we are seeing now are displaying a set of factors we don't normally see based on the conditions we've been experiencing most of our lives? I wonder. In a way, I'd love to be near a hotbed of study on this subject in order to compare notes with others' findings on the subject.

So, the video I've shown here is of water in its transitional moment, starting to boil. The thumbnail for the video, though, is a type of cloud formation I've seen a few times in the last several years, in other words not very often. But I saw this, the thumbnail, a couple days ago, and took the picture. I might not have seen it had I not been out in the field.

If you happen to know anyone who studies clouds or states of water, I'd be glad if they got to explore this topic presented here.

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