Show contents content of clouds cloud A cloud cannot burst because it Is not as the learned authorities of long ago supposed a sort of bag or bladder distended with wind declares a writer in the boston herald it Is a mist of exceedingly minute almost water droplets or in some cases tiny ice fee crystals cr and even if it lid did for some reason discharge all its moisture suddenly the result would not as a rule be a pa particularly r ticul arly heavy downpour clouds contain far less moisture than most people imagine the densest clouds probably are not more than one part water to parts air and it a huge cloud several mlle miles in vertical extent were by a miracle suddenly precipitated en ell masse to the gi ground aund at the maximum speed of falling rain the result would be decidedly less intense than often occurs in so called cloudbursts |