Why are clouds white and fluffy?
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Well, God is a wonderful creator, \nhe created it beautifually. I agree
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A cirrus cloud is a type of cloud comprised of ice crystals and characterized by thin, wisplike strands, often accompanied by tufts. Sometimes these wispy clouds are so extensive that they are virtually indistinguishable from one another, forming a veil or sheet called "cirrostratus". Sometimes convection at high altitudes produces another form of cirrus called "cirrocumulus" a pattern of small cloud tufts. The name "cirrus" is derived from a Latin word meaning "wisp of hair."\n\nMany cirrus clouds produce hairlike filaments made of snowflakes or heavier ice crystals that precipitate from them. These "fall streaks", a form of virga, often indicate the difference in the motion of air (wind shear) between the upper part of the cirrus cloud and the air below it. Sometimes the top of the cirrus cloud is moving rapidly above a slower layer of air, or the streak is falling into a faster moving lower layer. The directions of these winds can also vary.\n\nCirrus usually form at altitudes above 5000 meters (16,000 feet). The fall streaks may appear straight when wind shear is absent, giving the clouds the appearance of a comma (cirrus uncinus), or tangled, an indication of high-level turbulence. The snowflakes or ice crystals evaporate before reaching the ground.
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Because the clouds act as our big fluffy warm blankey, silly.
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Thunderstorms clouds appear dark because the light from the sun is not making it through the clouds and to our eyes. The millions of tiny water droplets in the cloud help scatter, reflect, and absorb the sun's light as it travels down to earth. From space these clouds look very bright because they are reflecting and scattering lots of light, but from the ground it will appear very very dark.
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It gets cooler as you go higher in the atmosphere. The water vapour in the air condenses on the dust particles forming tiny water droplets. These droplet float in the air. Such clusters of droplets is what we call clouds.
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sud is composed of very tiny bubbles of soap, which diffract light in all different directions, the light rays interfere and give rise to all colours, which produces white light. for the same reason snow is white, not by tiny bubbles, but by tiny crystals.
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because the foam is white
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Losing yourself in the skies and clouds are natures gift to us. I've seen objects, faces and "calming" designs. Cloud formations are majestic, serene, power and forces you to daydream and go to places only in your heart and mind. Clouds bring out the best in ones mind and with its changing of texture and color warn us of danger. A great "present" given to all by Mother nature.Give thanks, enjoy it and protect it.
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Well you see, not all clouds are the same: Here are some different types of clouds, that don't rain at all.\n\nCirrus Clouds\nCirrus clouds are the most common of the high clouds. They are composed of ice and are thin, wispy clouds blown in high winds into long streamers. Cirrus clouds are usually white and predict fair to pleasant weather. By watching the movement of cirrus clouds you can tell from which direction weather is approaching. When you see cirrus clouds, it usually indicates that a change in the weather will occur within 24 hours.\n\n\nCirrostratus clouds are thin, sheetlike high clouds that often cover the entire sky. They are so thin that the sun and moon can be seen through them. Cirrostratus clouds usually come 12-24 hours before a rain or snow storm.\n\n\nCirrocumulus clouds appear as small, rounded white puffs that appear in long rows. The small ripples in the cirrocumulus clouds sometime resemble the scales of a fish. Cirrocumulus clouds are usually seen in the winter and indicate fair, but cold weather. In tropical regions, they may indicate an approaching hurricane.\n\n\n"Alto" Clouds\nAltostratus clouds are gray or blue-gray mid level clouds composed of ice crystals and water droplets. The clouds usually cover the entire sky. In the thinner areas of the clouds, the sun may be dimly visible as a round disk. Altostratus clouds often form ahead of storms with continuous rain or snow.\n \n\nAltocumulus clouds are mid level clouds that are made of water droplets and appear as gray puffy masses. They usually form in groups. If you see altocumulus clouds on a warm, sticky morning, be prepared to see thunderstorms late in the afternoon.\n\n\nStratus Clouds\nStratus clouds are uniform grayish clouds that often cover the entire sky. They resemble fog that doesn't reach the ground. Light mist or drizzle sometimes falls out of these clouds.\n \n\nStratocumulus clouds are low, puffy and gray. Most form in rows with blue sky visible in between them. Rain rarely occurs with stratocumulus clouds, however, they can turn into nimbostratus clouds.\n\n\nNimbostratus clouds form a dark gray, wet looking cloudy layer associated with continuously falling rain or snow. They often produce precipitation that is usually light to moderate.\n\n\nCumulus Clouds\nCumulus clouds are white, puffy clouds that look like pieces of floating cotton. Cumulus clouds are often called "fair-weather clouds". The base of each cloud it flat and the top of each cloud has rounded towers. When the top of the cumulus clouds resemble the head of a cauliflower, it is called cumulus congestus or towering cumulus. These clouds grow upward and they can develop into giant cumulonimbus clouds, which are thunderstorm clouds.\n\n\nCumulonimbus clouds are thunderstorm clouds. High winds can flatten the top of the cloud into an anvil-like shape. Cumulonimbus clouds are associated with heavy rain, snow, hail, lightning and even tornadoes. The anvil usually points in the direction the storm is moving.\n \n\nSpecial Clouds\nMammatus clouds are low hanging bulges that droop from cumulonimbus clouds. Mammatus clouds are usually associated with severe weather.\n\n\nLenticular clouds are caused by a wave wind pattern created by the mountains. They look like discs or flying saucers that form near mountains.\n\n\nFog is a cloud on the ground. It is composed of billions of tiny water droplets floating in the air. Fog exists if the atmospheric visibility near the Earth's surface is reduced to 1 kilometer or less.\n\nContrails are condensation trails left behind jet aircrafts. Contrails form when hot humid air from jet exhaust mixes with environmental air of low vapor pressure and low temperature. The mixing is a result of turbulence generated by the engine exhaust.\n\nhope this helps :-).
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Clouds are water vapor. Think of it like a pocket of fog in the sky.
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When water falls, it becomes a mist. Then light refraction occurs and the wave length changes. It looks white because it scatters the light. I also creates rainbows because of the light refraction.
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probably partly because white reflects heat\n\nthey probably also help keep sand and dust in the air out
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Clouds are actually millions of water vapor particles that are condensed and very close together.  Because the molecules are so close together, light cannot pass through and is therefore reflected and appears white.  \n\nTo my knowledge, it has nothing to do with frequecy waves.\n\nI hope this helps!  Good luck.
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foam will always be white or a light shade of colors because when light enters the foam structure it deffuses through all the little windows which makes it to appear whitish as for water the light passes through and none of the light gets reflected to you so it seems colorless
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For the same reason the sky looks blue. If the air were perfectly transparent and without dust or water vapor etc, you would see the distant greeny hill look green(y).\n\nBut due to the presence of microscopic dust in the air, the distant objects take on a very slightly bluish hue.
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Cirrus clouds. The puffy ones are cumulus, and dark ones nimbocumulus. The cirrus clouds are really high up.
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Clouds are formed when warm moisture laden air is forced upwards either by a physical obstruction such as a hill/mountain or by being heated by the ground/sun.\nAs it rises it cools, and cold air can hold less moisture than warm air, so the vapour condenses out into droplets that form our clouds.\n\nFog is caused when moisture laden air is cooled by contact with the ground or water, it gets colder and colder until any moisture condenses out.  Fog forms as a layer as the air above it tends to be warmer due to rflected heat from the sun and also becauseof the lack of wind to stir the two layers together.  This is often referred to as an inversion.