stewpid question can you feel clouds!
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If I can remember...
(Im on the red too!)Back when I was a nipper I was under the firm illusion that you could.
I believed that clouds were alot more solid than they actually are. Sadly my parents put an end to my experiments to try and make it rain...
...I stood on the top of my climbing frame and threw knives into the air in the hope that I could puncture the clouds and make it rain.
The neighbors must have been laughing their arses off.
I believed that clouds were alot more solid than they actually are. Sadly my parents put an end to my experiments to try and make it rain...
...I stood on the top of my climbing frame and threw knives into the air in the hope that I could puncture the clouds and make it rain.
The neighbors must have been laughing their arses off.
Having several hundred skydives, many of which involved going through clouds, yes, you can feel them.
Simply put, a lone cloud (think of the clouds on The Simpsons) is probably colder than it's surrounding air, in order for it to have reached it's dew point (the temperature at which it turns into cloud).
When you fall through them, it feels cold, and wet, unsurprisingly. Skydiving videos in cloud clearly show water droplets on the camera lens itself.
You see yourself approaching your shadow on a cloud rather quickly, and when you're inexperienced, it can put the s
ts up you. When you enter it, you do feel a sudden burst of cold. And sometimes damp, depending on the cloud density.
Simply put, a lone cloud (think of the clouds on The Simpsons) is probably colder than it's surrounding air, in order for it to have reached it's dew point (the temperature at which it turns into cloud).
When you fall through them, it feels cold, and wet, unsurprisingly. Skydiving videos in cloud clearly show water droplets on the camera lens itself.
You see yourself approaching your shadow on a cloud rather quickly, and when you're inexperienced, it can put the s
ts up you. When you enter it, you do feel a sudden burst of cold. And sometimes damp, depending on the cloud density. As the OP.
This is what I was thinking whilst I was pished last night!
Do Jetoplane™ pilots feel clouds when coming into land?
As a passenger when the plane descends and the wings hit the clouds, it feels like the plane is hitting buffers and actually slows down a bit.
Would a pilot of such Jetoplanes™ notice a slow down mph/knots on there instrument panel readings?
Do pilots of commercial sized planes still feel 'seat of the pants' type driving sensation, I guess you would if you jumped from one model to another make, but would you feel a difference between two identical models, ie 2006-2007 model, but built identical.
my sober reply looks even more nonsensical that my pished OP post
This is what I was thinking whilst I was pished last night!
Do Jetoplane™ pilots feel clouds when coming into land?
As a passenger when the plane descends and the wings hit the clouds, it feels like the plane is hitting buffers and actually slows down a bit.
Would a pilot of such Jetoplanes™ notice a slow down mph/knots on there instrument panel readings?
Do pilots of commercial sized planes still feel 'seat of the pants' type driving sensation, I guess you would if you jumped from one model to another make, but would you feel a difference between two identical models, ie 2006-2007 model, but built identical.
my sober reply looks even more nonsensical that my pished OP post
The clouds are formed, in part, by rising columns of air that get to a level then cool enough for the water vapour to condensate.
Big big clouds (thunderstorms) have very strong rising currents inside which can throw even big planes off course, so passenger jets will try to go around them.
Where you have rising currents of air you also get descending currents and so overall things can be "turbulent" within clouds.
Fog is pretty much cloud that hasn't got off the ground, so I'd imagine that's what a cloud feels like!
Big big clouds (thunderstorms) have very strong rising currents inside which can throw even big planes off course, so passenger jets will try to go around them.
Where you have rising currents of air you also get descending currents and so overall things can be "turbulent" within clouds.
Fog is pretty much cloud that hasn't got off the ground, so I'd imagine that's what a cloud feels like!
Edited by john_p on Tuesday 14th October 10:55
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