Ok, today I looked up in the sky and saw lots of clouds. I started wondering - what exactly was making the clouds move? Was it the winds in sky pushing them along or are the clouds in a high or low air mass and the whole air mass is moving along carrying the clouds with them? Or a combination of both?
Be nice please! I’m just learning this weather stuff! So what makes clouds move?
Most people are right… Clouds are carried by the winds. Sometimes clouds at different levels of the atmosphere will move slower or opposite direction form each other. So that is another way to figure out how clouds move. Believe it or not, the best way I learned how clouds moved by winds by overlaying an upper level wind map on satellite and animate how the clouds would move. I found that clouds take the same direction as the wind, depending on what level are the clouds located.