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Do clouds have inertial movement?

Bodhan · 2011-04-02 19:27:55

Random thought. If the winds aloft are 50kph the clouds are moving at the same speed. If the wind speed drops to 10kph do the clouds take time to change speed or just suddenly stop as the wind does?

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02-04-2011 8:27pm

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Bodhan

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Random thought.

If the winds aloft are 50kph the clouds are moving at the same speed.
If the wind speed drops to 10kph do the clouds take time to change speed or just suddenly stop as the wind does?

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#2 02-04-2011 10:14pm
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It's highly unlikely that you would get steering winds slow down so abruptly in the first place, so it's kind of a hypothetical situation. But as clouds are not solid bodies, but a collection of small droplets, each carried independently by the steering wind, then as this wind slows, the droplets will slow too.

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