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freeloading water that floats by weighing as much as a hundred elephants
means Visible masses of water droplets or ice crystals suspended high in the atmosphere, the things that drift across the sky and decide whether you need an umbrella.
from From Old English 'clud,' which originally meant a mass of rock or a hill — a clod, basically. The leap from earthbound boulders to floating sky-puffs came because a dense, dark cloud looked like a great rocky mass hanging overhead. The older word for sky-cloud was 'sky' itself (related to a word meaning 'cloud cover'), but 'cloud' muscled in by around the 13th century, and the rock sense quietly drifted away.
- true mass
- average cloud weighs about a million pounds
- how they float
- droplets so tiny gravity barely cares
- naming
- a pharmacist named the main types in 1802
- speed
- some race overhead at 100 mph
- color
- gray means light can't punch through the density
mammatus clouds over oklahoma — pouch-like formations that appear after severe thunderstorms, particularly common in the great plains during spring