Why don't clouds fall out the sky when they are full of water?

Answer 1

Rising warm air and high wind speeds.

Answer 2

Do you know about the water cycle?

Water evaporates when it's warm and rises. The higher it gets the cooler it becomes. Eventually it is cool enough to become water again at which point we get clouds. Thus clouds form above columns of warm air which are bringing up a lot of evaporated water particles. The water would like to fall back to the earth but as soon as it hits the warm air again it evaporates again. Eventually the cloud becomes big and heavy enough that the amount of falling water cools the warm air enough so that the water can reach the ground and we have rain. That's your cloud falling!

Answer 3

Actually, they do. Clouds are made up of water vapor. Once the cloud gets "heavy" enough, the vapors condense, forming raindrops. Then the drops fall to the ground.

Answer 4

They do, that's what rain is. Clouds are just water vapor. When the water vapor gets too much, too dense, it condenses into liquid water and falls out of the sky.

Answer 5

The droplets of water that make up a cloud are very tiny and it only takes the smallest current of air to keep the floating around in the air. In fact in still air it would take them many hours to hit the ground. Think of the specks of dust you see floating in a beam of sunlight coming through your bedroom window and how easily they manage to float around in the air. It is only when the tiny drops of water in a cloud crash into each other enough to form bigger drops that they eventually get heavy enough to fall to the earth as raindrops.

Answer 6

The drops are very tiny and have an electric charge causing them to repel each other. As the cloud cools, however, the drops get bigger and then do fall as rain.

Answer 7

In usual conditions, on a rainy day, ever look up and see any clouds? You can't. Thanks because you're IN the cloud, so to speak. As others have pointed out, the clouds descend, condensed, in the form of rain, snow, &c.

Answer 8

They are made of water vapor that is blown around by the wind. It does fall if enough water vapor droplets collects together in the form of rain.

Answer 9

most people dont konw but clouds are extremely heavy! they stay uyp by realeasing some of the water (rain) but they mostly stay up because of high wind speeds in the atmostphere =)

Answer 10

Clouds are gas I believe and gas don't fall down.The dictionary says clouds are vapor.

Answer 11

They do. Truly, rain falls when clouds become saturated and cannot contain any more moisture.