• Question: why do we have clouds ?

    Asked by diva303 to Gopal on 20 Jun 2013.
    • Photo: Gopal Ramchurn

      Gopal Ramchurn answered on 20 Jun 2013:


      The simple answer is: because of water and dust. Clouds is simply dust particles on which small droplets of water have condensed. Water evaporates from water bodies (rivers/seas/reservoirs) and cools down as it goes up and condenses onto these small particles of dust.

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