"Clouds Can Communicate, Scientists Say"

Source Clouds Can Communicate

"A new study has found that clouds "communicate" with each other, much like chirping crickets or flashing fireflies on a summer night. The surprising findings, published online in the journal Nature, may have significant implications for our understanding of the Earth's climate."

"How does such synchronization come about? Falling rain cools the air as it descends. This creates downward air currents. These downdrafts hit the surface of the planet, flow outward, and collide with each other, forming updrafts. The air flowing up creates new clouds in previously open sky as older clouds dissipate. Then the new clouds rain, and the oscillating pattern repeats itself."

 Well...I am surprised. Who would of thought that clouds could communicate? However I don't really think that the clouds are literally transferring data to each other. Apparently they follow some sort of hexagonal pattern, but I think it may just be a coincidence, or it might just be a part of nature. There are natural patterns all over the world.

I think that the clouds effect each other more than they communicate with each other, because clouds have no brains, they cant die, they aren't living things, so I think communicate was the wrong word to use to describe what's happening.