#38 A Thorough Review of Every Type of Cloud

Episode thirty-eight of The World's Most Boring Podcast - Bore Me to Sleep is a thorough, slow, and deeply unhurried review of every type of cloud. If you are looking for something to help you fall asleep, something calm and monotone to drift off to, something that will fill your head with gentle, meaningless information until your thoughts quietly dissolve, this is the episode for you. We cover all ten cloud genera recognised by the World Meteorological Organization: cirrus, cirrocumulus, cirrostratus, altocumulus, altostratus, nimbostratus, stratocumulus, stratus, cumulus, and cumulonimbus. We also wander into lenticular clouds, nacreous clouds, noctilucent clouds, virga, mammatus clouds, and fog, because we had the time and frankly so do you. Along the way we meet Luke Howard, the English pharmacist who invented cloud classification in eighteen oh two, discuss mackerel skies and mare's tails, consider the role of stratocumulus in regulating the Earth's climate, and spend a surprising amount of time in a supermarket cereal aisle. The episode ends in a long, dreamlike sequence where all the clouds gradually merge and drift together in a direction that does not have a name. It is ideal for people who struggle to fall asleep and need something slow and undemanding to quiet a busy mind. It is equally ideal for people who simply enjoy falling asleep to soft, monotone talking and do not mind missing most of it. Nothing important happens. Nothing is resolved. The clouds keep moving. If you have a topic suggestion, a question, or something you would like to contribute to the world's most boring conversation, please write to us at [email protected]. We are always looking for new ways to be thoroughly, soothingly, magnificently dull. Head in the clouds? Good. That is exactly where we want you.