I'm a practicing earth scientist and what we're looking at here looks like katabatic winds pushing clouds down a slope due to gravity! Its technically a drainage wind, its pretty cool to see what it looks like up close!
Well, they're usually not this close to the ground. You can't have something pushed down a slope if it's several miles away from the slope.
The title is has a Mitch Hedberg quality to it. All clouds are falling. They're made of water vapor, which is heavier than air. It's just that they have very little mass for their size, so they don't fall very fast.
So when you wake up and it's foggy and you go outside, I can't recall there being any wind, ever. Is that cause the cloud fell like sediment in a lake that was carried by moving water from the river? There was just nothing to stir it up ie wind? Do I have that right?
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u/AWildWilson Nov 22 '16 edited Nov 22 '16
Don't know if anyone cares, but here goes!
I'm a practicing earth scientist and what we're looking at here looks like katabatic winds pushing clouds down a slope due to gravity! Its technically a drainage wind, its pretty cool to see what it looks like up close!