Clouds Communicate ?

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According to a recent article written by FOX News, clouds communicate with each other in the sky. Clouds organize themselves in such a way that they are able to organize and come together to produce rainfall events.

A research scientist from NOAA, Graham Feingold, found clear evidence of self-organization in the regular patterns of rainfall and repeating cloud growth. When rain falls to the ground, it cools the air. This creates downward air currents. The downdrafts hit the surface of the earth, flow outward, and form updrafts by colliding with one another. The updrafts create new clouds in the open sky as the other clouds break up. Rain falls from these new clouds and the pattern repeats itself.

The clouds are basically communicating with each other as they push one another toward the ground. The physics behind the theory of cloud communication dates all the way back to 1933 by a French scientist named Graham. He was looking through a telescope and noticed convection patterns while looking at the sun. However, Feingold thinks that the theory of cloud communication may date back even further than that.

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