11-07-2022 Woodland Park, CO - Amazing Cloud Inversion Via Drone

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Fog or Clouds. Yes! In the winter, Colorado is prone to cloud or temperature inversions due to mountains. Today a inversion formed over Colorado Springs but just 15 miles west in Woodland Park CO where the elevation is 3000ft higher, it was possible to be higher than the clouds via drone!

Warm air is lighter than cold air. Hot air balloons rise because the warm air inside the balloon is lighter than the cold air surrounding it. In the wintertime, the sun warms the surface of the earth during daylight hours. This warm air rises and mixes with other atmospheric gases. When the sun goes down, the surface area cools and the air gets colder. The less dense warm air high up in the atmosphere often blankets the colder air that rests closer to the surface of the earth. Because the colder air is more dense than the warm air, the colder air is trapped close to the earth and the atmospheric gases do not mix. This is a temperature inversion.

[seshenofthenile]

I was raised there and that is why they call it the city above the clouds. We get those quite often there.

[ellaabraham]

It was something just like this seen somewhere else just before 19 Hit