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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
+ | {{incomplete|Created by a CUMULONIMBOCUNIMBULONIMBUS CLOUD. Please mention here why this explanation isn't complete: Cold slippery air from title text not mentioned yet! Translating the cloud names from Latin would give more information and possibly intended entertainment. Maybe someone who can do better than translate.google.com could do it? Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}} | ||
This comic follows the naming of clouds. As with other lists (like in [[2022: Sports Champions]]), it starts off as normal but then gets more unusual until it is unrealistic. | This comic follows the naming of clouds. As with other lists (like in [[2022: Sports Champions]]), it starts off as normal but then gets more unusual until it is unrealistic. | ||
;Cumulus | ;Cumulus | ||
− | : The first panel shows a {{w|cumulus cloud}}, | + | : The first panel shows a {{w|cumulus cloud}}, Latin for "heap cloud". These are common clouds and are relatively small. Cumulus clouds form when warm (and thus rising) moist air condenses when it hits the {{w|dew point}}, the temperature at which relative humidity hits 100%. Cumulus clouds with sharp, defined borders are still growing. When they stop growing (because the rising moist air is exhausted), they get fuzzy and fluffy, and eventually dissolve. |
;Cumulo<wbr>nimbus | ;Cumulo<wbr>nimbus | ||
− | : The second panel shows a {{w|cumulonimbus cloud}}, | + | : The second panel shows a {{w|cumulonimbus cloud}}, Latin for "heaping thundercloud", with the upper part about the same size as the lower part. Though somewhat like the cumulus cloud, it is more prone to causing rain and lightning. Cumulonimbus clouds, like cumulus clouds, grow vertically because of their moist warm air, but they have enough energy to reach the top of the {{w|troposphere}}, giving them the distinctive anvil shape shown in the comic and their tendency to produce nasty weather. |
;Cumulo<wbr>nimbulo<wbr>nimbus | ;Cumulo<wbr>nimbulo<wbr>nimbus | ||
− | : The third panel shows an even bigger cloud and names it cumulonimbulonimbus (Latin for "heaping | + | : The third panel shows an even bigger cloud and names it cumulonimbulonimbus (Latin for "heaping thundery thundercloud"). Here the scientific fact ends and the humor begins. The cloud has the upper part about twice as large as the lower part. The humor here comes from building up an even bigger name by adding another "nimbus" element for the cloud as its size increases, suggesting that its growth as compared to the second cloud shown has made it even more "thundery". |
;Cumulo<wbr>nimbulo<wbr>nimbulo<wbr>cumulo<wbr>nimbus | ;Cumulo<wbr>nimbulo<wbr>nimbulo<wbr>cumulo<wbr>nimbus | ||
− | : The fourth panel shows an absurdly large cloud with three major layers and gives it the name cumulonimbulonimbulocumulonimbus (Latin for "heaping | + | : The fourth panel shows an absurdly large cloud with three major layers and gives it the name cumulonimbulonimbulocumulonimbus (Latin for "heaping thundery thundering heaping thundercloud"). This is a combination of the third an the second cloud name in this comic, and indeed the fourth cloud looks a lot like the second one emerging out of the top of the third. This cloud may look like a [[220: Philosophy|super soaker]], ready to spray water on everyone. |
;Alto<wbr>cumu<wbr>lenticulo<wbr>strato<wbr>nimbulo<wbr>cirrus<wbr>lenticulo<wbr>mamma<wbr>noctilucent | ;Alto<wbr>cumu<wbr>lenticulo<wbr>strato<wbr>nimbulo<wbr>cirrus<wbr>lenticulo<wbr>mamma<wbr>noctilucent | ||
− | : The title text | + | : The title text continues this list by naming a new cloud that is also supposedly the rarest. It requires {{w|Curse|cursed air}} and {{w|nanobots}} to make, which is impossible since neither of those exist.{{Citation needed}} |
− | :The name of this cloud | + | :The name of this cloud can be explained with: |
− | : | + | :altocumulus: "heap up high." |
− | : | + | :lenticularis = lens-shaped |
− | : | + | :stratus = layered |
− | : | + | :nimbus = dark cloud |
− | : | + | :cirrus = "curling lock of hair" |
− | + | :mammatus = breast-like (some thunderstorm clouds form breast-like extrusions, which signify sinking air) | |
− | : | + | :noctilucent = "bright at night" (a cloud-like structure formed from ice crystals, often formed after volcano eruptions and other cataclysmic events and illuminated by a just-set sun) |
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− | The {{w|International Cloud Atlas}} defines the cloud types that are recognized by the WMO, the {{w|World Meteorological Organization}}. It was first published in 1896. Similarly, {{w|IUPAC}} publishes a manual that allows chemists to name chemical compounds in a consistent manner. The Altocumulenticulostratonimbulocirruslenticulomammanoctilucent may thus be a pun on IUPAC, which (theoretically) offers a unique name for each possible strand of DNA and other complex molecules | + | The {{w|International Cloud Atlas}} defines the cloud types that are recognized by the WMO, the {{w|World Meteorological Organization}}. It was first published in 1896. Similarly, {{w|IUPAC}} publishes a manual that allows chemists to name chemical compounds in a consistent manner. The Altocumulenticulostratonimbulocirruslenticulomammanoctilucent may thus be a pun on IUPAC, which (theoretically) offers a unique name for each possible strand of DNA and other complex molecules. |
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+ | The title text also mentions a common joke in weather communities, making fun of the common trope that thunderstorms form when "warm moist air", meets "cold dry air", which is an extreme oversimplification. An example of this trope is [https://youtu.be/WMtAaETOVSY?t=448 here]. | ||
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
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{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
+ | [[Category:Science]] | ||
[[Category:Weather]] | [[Category:Weather]] | ||
[[Category:Robots]] <!-- Nanobots in title text --> | [[Category:Robots]] <!-- Nanobots in title text --> | ||
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