Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110529:22:14:00
Like a hot-air baa log. the sun comes out to warm the ground and the air wants to rise. as the air rises into space it goes up higher and higher and gets into colder and colder air. so all the particles start to congeal down here. all the humidity comes in and then it goes straight up in the air. you can see the towering cumulus clouds, a lot like everything in the northern hemisphere that spins to the right and everything in the southern hemisphere that spins to the left. eventually if you move this stuff long enough on the way up, literally 60,000 feet in the sky, 12 miles from the surface t...