Why do clouds float?

Question

like how they go up in the air...when they have all that water in them.

Answer 1

If they didn't, we'd get squished.

Answer 2

its vapor... or gas and is a little lighter than air or about the same and stays then until its drops back to earth as liquid or ice...

Answer 3

its aliens holding them up .idk

Answer 4

They don't go up in the air, they are formed there. When there is enough moisture, it falls as rain, snow, sleet etc. With less moisture, clouds are very light.

Like when you exhale smoke from a cigarette, it floats very easily. Or when you exhale outside on a cold day. The condensation just floats.

Answer 5

I think because of density of steam is lower then air and  hot air is rise and cold air is descent to the ground.

Can I explain it clearly with my bad English?

Answer 6

"Clouds are made of water droplets and ice crystals. Together, these droplets and crystals weigh many tons. So if the typical cloud actually weighs as much as an elephant, why doesn't it plummet to the ground?

Because unlike an elephant, a cloud's weight is spread out over a very large area. Plus, the cloud's droplets and crystals are very small--about one micron, or one-hundred-thousandth of an inch across. A cloud's individual particles are so small, in fact, that warm air rising from the earth's surface is able to keep them floating in the air. It's similar to how dust motes swirl in a shaft of sunlight. Although the bits of dust are affected by gravity, even the gentlest air currents are enough to keep them dancing around in the air.

But clouds don't stay up in the air forever, of course. When the warm air keeping clouds afloat cools, its water vapor condenses and adds to the cloud's droplets. At a certain point the droplets become heavy enough to overwhelm the force of the rising air, and all that water falls to the ground."