How does a cloud just disappear from the sky without it raining or wind blowing it away?

Question

So there was [this post](https://reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/s/a7A0IHKHPJ) in r/all of a 5 minute timelapse showing a cloud literally disappear. How does this happen? Was there just a suddenly dry wind? Does this happen often?

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Answer 1

Clouds are also just the places in the sky where the water droplets are above a certain size (above that size, [Mie scattering](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mie_scattering) happens, and you see the droplets as opaque; below it, it doesn’t) . If that water spreads out (by contact with dryer air, for example), the average droplet size will fall, and you’ll stop being able to see them. It doesn’t necessarily mean that the water has somehow vanished.

Edit: Realised I’d misspelled “Mie”