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.
yeah, came here to say, Chuck was edited well in this piece... making his "ooh's" and "ahh's" so much more expressive. Great editing, but also great job to chuck
He definitely knows more than he lets on. Neil has said this himself multiple times and has thanked him for representing the person at home watching. I've seen every single Star Talk episode. He knows way more than the average person. @fishingstix610
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.
Wonderfully stated. Yes, gliders (or sailplanes) are a lot like sailboats up in the air. You have to know the weather. Except instead of the weather on the water, it's the weather up 5000 feet or so above the ground.
this is an awesome response. Skateboarders, do this same thing, except our elevating factors are mass and momentum combined with a fixed, and sometimes fluid elevator. You know, the cat out of the hat thing, when the observer does not realize you are so familiar with nature, you make it seem like magic.
thats interesting to know about. im a GA pilot (currently training for commercial), and we spend all our time avoiding clouds - especially lenticular! we dont ever want to be experiencing turbulence right above a mountain. we generally steer completely clear of mountains by 5-10 miles if possible. if we have no choice but to fly over them, we want to be at least 2000 ft. agl. so its surprising to hear that gliders utilize lenticulars in that way.
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.
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'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.
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.
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..... 🌤️❤😁👍
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!!!
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 😌
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.
Neil has such a great way of making any topic interesting. I'm infected by his enthusiasm every time and I ended up learning something. Dammit Neil! You're ruining my ignorance! (joking)
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.
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 ^^
Some of my favorites are mammatus, pryocumulus and noctilucent clouds. I've been obsessed with clouds and storms since I was a teen, especially as I am from Texas :)
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'm a satellite analyst and meteorologist. It was actually the Low Pressure system that was incorrectly displayed. In the Northern Hemisphere, Highs (ridges) are clockwise, and Lows (troughs) are anti-clockwise.
@@alexanderthegreat4103 Yes, my bad, I let the cyclone lingo get to me. We would always expect colder air digging down the Western flank of a LP/Trough crossing the Atlantic.
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!
Don't you think the clouds need a little help from the magical mystery man? "...all things were created by him and for him. He is before all things and in him all things hold together (Colossians 1:16-17)." 🌦️
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.
5:38 I came to associate the Cumulonimbus clouds with the deserts in the US. And it's possibly my favorite type of cloud, because they're just so IMMENSE. I rarely get to see anything like them in Central Europe, so I can only marvel at images of them. Great and informative video. Definitely useful...even for world-building for fiction.
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.
Few weeks ago I was watching the clouds and wondered about cloud formation and things like that but even the wikipedia page was too much for me so this video answered my questions in a simple way , I love this channel!
I didn’t know that there are clouds that don’t move! I like to film clouds on time lapse and I never got stable cloud! Gonna film them more now 😊 I need to witness that 🔥
We lived in Colorado for a time. We would play "cloud tag." The clouds were so close, they would cast shadows that were easy to run from one to another. If you got tagged outside the shadow, you were "it." If you were in the shadow, you were safe. Good times.
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
Excellent presentation, only critisism is that the animation of the low and high pressure system show them rotating the same direction otherwise, bravo gentlemen.
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. 😊
Noctilucent clouds. Tale I heard in Sweden. When large shoals of herring turn at the same time, the moonlight is reflected via the herring to the clouds.
When I was little, I always thought how fun it would be to walk on a cloud and look down and see all the continents, oceans, islands, and so on. Now I know that if I tried to set foot on a cloud that gravity would take care of the rest.
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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.
and you know this because how?
yeah, came here to say, Chuck was edited well in this piece... making his "ooh's" and "ahh's" so much more expressive. Great editing, but also great job to chuck
They're an awesome pair. Chuck drops some good ones at times
@@fishingstix610 because they about how Chuck was chosen for the show, sure to his inner nerd and Neil was amazed with his knowledge
He definitely knows more than he lets on. Neil has said this himself multiple times and has thanked him for representing the person at home watching. I've seen every single Star Talk episode. He knows way more than the average person. @fishingstix610
I love how you bring up subjects I'd never care about on my own, and still get me hooked! Thank you, Neil
Facts
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.
Wonderfully stated.
Yes, gliders (or sailplanes) are a lot like sailboats up in the air. You have to know the weather. Except instead of the weather on the water, it's the weather up 5000 feet or so above the ground.
this is an awesome response. Skateboarders, do this same thing, except our elevating factors are mass and momentum combined with a fixed, and sometimes fluid elevator. You know, the cat out of the hat thing, when the observer does not realize you are so familiar with nature, you make it seem like magic.
Thanks for sharing, very cool
thats interesting to know about. im a GA pilot (currently training for commercial), and we spend all our time avoiding clouds - especially lenticular! we dont ever want to be experiencing turbulence right above a mountain. we generally steer completely clear of mountains by 5-10 miles if possible. if we have no choice but to fly over them, we want to be at least 2000 ft. agl. so its surprising to hear that gliders utilize lenticulars in that way.
an interesting idea for flight sim next update
You guys have a great infographics person.
except they have the air rotation around the Low going the wrong way. Should e counter-clockwise.
@@ThePapadixon Was waiting for this comment as I caught that as well. Small detail in an otherwise great explainer as usual.
@@ThePapadixon rip graphics guy fired
Fancy seeing you here. I love your channel game sack. Keep it up!
i never thought clouds could be cool and yet here we are
And apparently they have to, otherwise humidity goes down and it wouldn't be a cloud anymore
They are quite interesting once you start to learn more about them
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
GOBBLESS BRUDDER
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.
Neil even touched on cloud condensation nuclei in this vid! I thought it was cool, even though he didn't use the specific term.
Neil and Chuck, y'all rock! Peace
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.
Right.
@@purrple.shadows Or in the southern hemisphere, left.
@@jasonbhunt 😄
Oh Janet stop being right all the time. No one likes a smartypants.
Best explanation about clouds, ever
4:04 words I never thought I'd hear from Dr Tyson
Right. Came outa nowhere
Thanks guys. Always a good education in a way that makes you smile. Happy 4th from Wisconsin.
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!
You guys should go read Quran 28:43
Thank you for the smiles you two guys are wonderful
Clouds have saved so many lives!
Like, all of them? :)
@@Sonnell Clouds do not identify
🤣🤣🤣
@@FrozenLabRat they should, or germany is gonna identity themselves as clouds now, and they why not if I wear white?
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.
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.
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..... 🌤️❤😁👍
Huh I've lived around the Smokies in Tennessee for all my life and have seen what your speaking of....I think lol....the weather here is nuts.
I love clouds ☁️. I really wish I could remember all the types and their names! Thanks, gentlemen for this overview.
As a former weather observer in the usaf clouds have always interested me. Seeing the title put a smile on my face.
One of my favourite podcasts.
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!!!
If Chuck Ever Finds Himself Unable To Go To Work, I Will Gladly Come In And Cover For Him On Star Talk!
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 😌
Love your podcast, Dr. Tyson! I have always been interested in clouds. Please continue this conversation for clouds on other planets!
Educational Entertainment to the MAX!!!!!!! GREAT Video ❤
I Love StarTalk
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.
Awesome explainer! You literally answered all my cloud questions.
Science rules! Thanks, Professor Tyson and Mr. Nice!! Keep the knowledge flowing!✌️
I live in the Reno / Tahoe area and constantly enjoy our Lenticular Clouds!
Neil and chuck really make star talk so amazingly awesome! Love the channel and content, always looking up!!👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸❤️❤️❤️🇵🇷
I literally searched two days ago this topic on your channel and couldn't find what I was looking for. Thank you for this.
Neil, This was so informing and entertaining it's just like Saturday morning cartoons as a kid again!
Neil has such a great way of making any topic interesting. I'm infected by his enthusiasm every time and I ended up learning something. Dammit Neil! You're ruining my ignorance! (joking)
WOW i learned something new every time. Love you guys, i feel like Chuck i know just enough at 55 yrs old to be close.
As someone working towards his commercial pilot license I've learned more about clouds and weather than I ever cared to
I do wish i could take a chem class taught by dr. Tyson hes a great teacher from my perspective
Excellent discussion. The weather channel should run this. Neil: you should have touched on the super cool Mammatus clouds.
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.
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 ^^
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❤️
Some of my favorites are mammatus, pryocumulus and noctilucent clouds. I've been obsessed with clouds and storms since I was a teen, especially as I am from Texas :)
I love clouds and take pictures almost daily. ❣️❤️
you guys should teach a whole school curriculum, love your show you guys are the best!!
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. :)
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I'm a satellite analyst and meteorologist. It was actually the Low Pressure system that was incorrectly displayed. In the Northern Hemisphere, Highs (ridges) are clockwise, and Lows (troughs) are anti-clockwise.
@@alexanderthegreat4103 Yes, my bad, I let the cyclone lingo get to me. We would always expect colder air digging down the Western flank of a LP/Trough crossing the Atlantic.
I’m a flight instructor. This the PERFECT explanation of these specific weather products. DEFINITELY going to start sending them this video!!
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!
Don't you think the clouds need a little help from the magical mystery man? "...all things were created by him and for him. He is before all things and in him all things hold together (Colossians 1:16-17)." 🌦️
I learned more about clouds in 11 minutes than I did in many years of schooling. Thanks Neil!
Love the joni Mitchell reference
Most people don't know it.
This is so awesome 😊
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.
I wonder every time I look up. And now I have the answers. Tqsm
I always wondered about this topic. Thank you so much Neil.
The rocket fact was such a nice bonus to learn👍🏻
5:38 I came to associate the Cumulonimbus clouds with the deserts in the US. And it's possibly my favorite type of cloud, because they're just so IMMENSE. I rarely get to see anything like them in Central Europe, so I can only marvel at images of them. Great and informative video. Definitely useful...even for world-building for fiction.
My favorite explainer so far well done!
Explainer. Bestes Format auf RUclips! Danke Star Talk! 👍😁👋
Und Chuck ist sowieso der Beste 🤣
Thank you Niel and Chuck.
You guys are the best, I didn't think much of clouds once I understood the basics but wow
I love clouds and take photos of clouds on my iPhone.
I do the same
it always amazes me to see the outstanding comedian Chuck Nice on display! and this guy Neil is also cool
The hurricanes part was explained effortlessly! So cool.
🤯 💪🏾 Man, you got me wanting to take notes and do a test. You’re brilliant! 🤓📝
I like the new intro graphics
🌤️ Seattleite lovin this convo! 😂 Thank you for keepin us all lifted! 🌬️💞🌤️
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.
Few weeks ago I was watching the clouds and wondered about cloud formation and things like that but even the wikipedia page was too much for me so this video answered my questions in a simple way , I love this channel!
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I love clouds. We get a lot of them in Singapore and good too - otherwise it would become so hot.
I didn’t know that there are clouds that don’t move!
I like to film clouds on time lapse and I never got stable cloud! Gonna film them more now 😊 I need to witness that 🔥
it is feeling great to watch Dr tyson explain all those sci. facts with such way make you asking for more.
Can't spell "science."
@@AndrewBlacker-t1d just focus on the point.
I’m liking Neil doing weather !!
We lived in Colorado for a time. We would play "cloud tag." The clouds were so close, they would cast shadows that were easy to run from one to another. If you got tagged outside the shadow, you were "it." If you were in the shadow, you were safe. Good times.
Cosmic Shiplets... Always a pleasure!
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
Clouds are pretty magical.
One day Chuck will be able to give a talk.
Yes, he’s getting weekly personal tutoring from Niel😂
Yes how he lose his bestfriend our favorite personal astrophysicist. Rest in Peace Neil 😢🕯️
@@chriswilfridwhat are you on about
I love to look at clouds thanks for making me love them more 💜
Excellent presentation, only critisism is that the animation of the low and high pressure system show them rotating the same direction otherwise, bravo gentlemen.
thnks for this valuable content mister
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. 😊
Slightly related, please explain “Ball Lighting” sometime.
This video is for every student pilot. Great.
Temperatures are also relative. A cold front can still be pretty warm but also cause turbulent weather.
God Bless the clouds.
Thank you for the scientific information. I like making clouds with my vaporizer ☁️☁️☁️🎉
This was my favorite thing in school when I was a kid 😃
What a coincidence, I just got back from a talk about noctilucent clouds at the Norman Lockyer observatory
I loved this video. Very informative, thanks!
I used to fly gliders. Those cirrus streets were to die for. Just cruising along those constant updrafts
Cloud formation is the earliest physics lesson I can remember.
Noctilucent clouds. Tale I heard in Sweden. When large shoals of herring turn at the same time, the moonlight is reflected via the herring to the clouds.
Noctilucent clouds got my attention!
Very neat and beautiful explainer ❤ love that Neil 🫶🏾
Amazing!!
When I was little, I always thought how fun it would be to walk on a cloud and look down and see all the continents, oceans, islands, and so on. Now I know that if I tried to set foot on a cloud that gravity would take care of the rest.
At 7:55, your L pressure graphic is turning the wrong direction - it should be counter-clockwise.
Chuck you honestly make this very informative podcast hard to watch.
So Nice