What would happen if clouds caught up to the spin of the Earth?
94572
What do you mean "caught up with"? All clouds rotate at the same rate as the Earth. If that weren't the case the clouds would rise and set once a day just like the sun or the stars.
431091
It is because of the Earth's rotation.
182304
great question - I wish I knew more but tides would be different. Also - the day would be shorter. The equatorial regions would be hotter, and the regions further away would be colder. The earth's rotation would be more stable with less wobble.
122865
The gravitational pull of the earth pulls the waves up and down while the earth is rotating.
481150
the earth spins at 1500 mph.  If you take a ball and spin it extreemly fast you will find that the center of the ball will grow and the poles will flatten.  It is like driving a car very fast.  The higher up ion speed you go the lower to the ground it will become.  I has to do with Volocity.
854216
Since a cloud is made up of lots of small droplets of condensed water (or, in the case of some clouds, the condensed water freezes into ice crystals), if you were able to "shake" the cloud (get the water droplets moving around randomly) they would collide and form larger water drops.  These drops should then eventually become heavy enough to drop from the sky as rain.\n\nWikipedia has a pretty good article on clouds.
420125
obviously the effects will be huge, depending on the number of atomic bombs that is used at the worst case scenario the spin of the earth will change because the atomic bombs release so much energy. so earth could fall out of its orbit. 2 things could happen either  an Ice age or everything is going to be melted!\nin this case i don't think anyone would survive, not even president Bush
830124
Nothin would happen.\nIf you consider two bodies the earth (name it E) and a large mass (m). \ninitially M rests on E. and you lift mass M. the force used to lift it will also act on E.\nAlso if you consider the mass M and E. as a system force exerted on dropping M would be internal and since internal forces do not cause acc. the Earth will not get unbalanced.\n\nThats good for us isn't it...
131841
The seasons would be far milder. There probably still would be some seasonal variations because the earth is not always the same distance from the sun.\n\nAlso, it should be noted that even if the axis of rotation was oriented to be normal to the ecliptic, there is still a 435 day period Chandler Wobble to the earth's axis, caused by redistribution of mass on the earth's surface (and presumably within the earth as well) and the conservation of angular momentum.
308954
After the Earth formed and all the component asteroids and other proto-planetary debris coalesced the residual spin from the collisions left us spinning counter-clockwise.  Were there to be another collision, a series of collisions, or close interaction with some super-massive object (i.e. black hole, brown dwarf, etc.) with enough momentum or gravity to retard, stop or reverse our rotation, it could definitely do so.  Venus is an example of a planet in a retrograde rotation (probably because some massive impact reversed its spin), so it is definitely possible...hell, Uranus spins almost 90 degrees out of alignment with the orbital plane.  Most planets in our solar system spin in relatively the same direction, and that is likely to be the case in most systems in the universe, but it is by no means set in stone.
1106404
TV signals can bounce off clouds.  Clouds can prevent signals from exiting Earth's atmosphere.
833749
Clouds are water vapor. Think of it like a pocket of fog in the sky.
535923
um...There wouldn't be anything, there would be no earth, the sun will increase in diameter causing the temp. on earth to rise VERY high, and people will finally build a powerful rocket to go to another planet that's similar to earth or mars...
1182139
If you're talking about some magical reversal without physical consequences, you already have several answers. But if you're talking about physical reality... the earth's mass is about 6.6 sextillion tons and its tangential velocity due to rotation is over 800mph at the equator. You can't just stop an object that massive, moving that fast without equally huge effects. The biggest effect would be friction. Energy is conserved and stopping the rotation of earth would convert the planet's entire momentum into heat. If the reverse happened quickly enough, the heat generated would probably boil the atmosphere and the oceans off into space. Everything on the surface would burn or melt. All life on the surface would end - everything would go up in smoke. \n\nIf the reverse happened slowly, we would lose the angular momentum of our orbit around the sun. Earth would leave its orbit and either fly off into interstellar space or plunge into the sun - either way would be pretty final.
1105296
Earth is rotating at a speed of about 1100 miles per hour. If our planet suddenly stopped rotating, the atmosphere would still be in motion at that speed. The atmosphere would be moving so fast it would literally sweep the land masses clear of anything not anchored to bedrock, this would mean rocks, soil, trees, buildings, people and animals. All would be swept up into the atmosphere.\n\nIf the Earth's rotation slowed down gradually over millions of years, and this is the most likely scenario, it would be a very different story. If the Earth slowed down to one rotation every year, called synchronous rotation, every area on Earth would be in either sunlight or darkness for one year. This would be similar to what the Moon goes through where for two weeks the front side of the Moon is illuminated by the Sun followed by the front side being in darkness for two weeks.\n\nBut what if the Earth stopped rotating completely? In that case, one half the Earth would be in daylight for half the year while the other side would be in darkness. The second half of the year it would be reversed. Temperature variations would be far more extreme then they are now. The temperature gradient would affect the wind circulation also. Air would move from the equator to the poles rather then in wind systems parallel to the equator as they are now.
280359
I suppose you know the air moves from high pressure to low pressure. The more difference in pressure the faster the wind.\nHowever the rotating earth gives complications. On the Northern hemisphere wind gets a deviation to the right (looking in the direction of the wind). This is the law of Buys - Ballot.
901606
It spins roughly at the speed it orbits earth. I believe there is a slight "wobble" in the spin which enables astronomers to see about 3/4 of the moon over time. \nIf it spun at the same speed as the earth, the spin would have no effect on earth, but it would cause the moon to get hot inside because of the tidal effect. \nThe tidal effect acts like a brake.