How is it possible that a cloud

Question

can hold so much water, when there is nothing to a cloud really. I mean I've flown threw them many times ans it's like driving threw fog on the ground.

What gives a cloud the ability to retain water?

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Answer 1

Pilots often describe clouds as having rocks in them, turbulance.  Usually the turbulence is on the edges of the cloud, I am excluding storm cells.

The real answer of course is volume.  Another pilot's expresssion to explain why there are so few in flight collsions applies here;  "God sure did put a lot of volume into three dimensions."

And heat.  The higher the temperature the greater the air's capacity to hold water (as vapor).

Answer 2

It's all about the impure substances. Clouds are made out of water vapors  that concentrate around salt crystals (tiny crystals that the wind lifts from oceans' surface), dust particles, pollen etc. Actually, that's the way clouds form. Hope I could help.