Cloud

A cloud is a visible collection of water floating in the sky. Most clouds are found in the sky, where the clouds are. A cloud found on the ground is called fog, and is considered lost.^[1]

An average cloud weighs about 500 tonnes, roughly the same as 100 elephants, and stays up for the same reason elephants don’t: nobody has told it.

Shapes

Clouds can look like anything: a rabbit, a ship, a face, the outline of a country you’ve never been to. Upon closer inspection, all of them are clouds. Meteorologists have yet to find a cloud that looks like a cloud, and suspect the one in the photograph is lying.^[2]

Rain

When a cloud becomes too heavy it releases rain, after which it is lighter and noticeably more pleased with itself.

See also

• Rain – a cloud letting go
• Wind – moves clouds about
• Sun – often behind a cloud, sulking

References

1. Nimbus, C. (2015). Up There. Sky Books.
2. Royal Meteorological Rabbit Society (1990). “It Was a Cloud All Along”.