Eli5 How do lenticular clouds stay in one spot?
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They happen when air is moving over a mountain range and gets pushed up by the mountains to the point where water condenses out and forms the cloud. On the lee side of the mountain, the air descends and warms until the water goes back into the vapor phase. So the air in moving, but the region where you can see the condensed water stays in roughly the same spot over the mountain.
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