Why are the clouds white? Why not purple?

Answer 1

white light from the sun consists of all the colors of the rainbow. Since light travels as waves of different lengths, each color has its very own unique wavelength.
In much the same way as why skies are blue, clouds are white because their water droplets or ice crystals are large enough to scatter the light of the seven wavelengths (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet), which combine to produce white light.

Answer 2

A cloud's colour depends chiefly on the cloud's relationship to the sunlight.In some cases, it depends on the colour of the surrounding sky.
If a cloud covers the whole visible area of the sky, the depth of the cloud determines the colour of the cloud;the deeper it is ,the darker it is.
As a ray of sunlight impinges on the cloud,the water in the cloud can either reflect the light back towards space or absorb the light.
If the wavelength of all the colours in the sunlight are not blocked ,but scattered equally,the result is white light.
So,if the sun is shining and the cloud is not covering the sun,the cloud is white in general.

Answer 3

The simple part of the answer is that they are made of water (ice crystals), which you already know is clear. If water was colored by nature's design, we would see the clouds as whatever color the water was, the same way we would see purple snow if water was purple.

Answer 4

T Junior has the right answer, but boy I would just love it if the clouds were in different colors.

Answer 5

Something to do with the suns rays and whatnot.

Answer 6

Why do asians have dark eyes? Why not blue eyes?

Answer 7

because condensed water vapor is white... like steam