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As fast as the wind, right? So the low ones must max out at about 100 kph or something?
The ones higher up that we don’t often see maybe are a bit faster. Up where we fly planes the air moves super-fast, but there are no clouds. Partly because the air’s moving super-fast and it’s too cold.
Clouds caught up in tornadoes and things – must be faster as they twist around. The “clouds” near the centre of cyclones must be moving faster still, but that’s pretty rare.
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Clouds form at around 2-6 kms above sea level. The wind speed up at this level can be anywhere from basically zero to a couple of hundred kilometres per hour, but tends to be faster the higher up you go. The wind pushes the clouds along, so the speed of the cloud depends on the wind.
Clouds which are at different heights can move in different directions and at different speeds, depending on what the wind is doing at that level.
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As Matt and Aimee have written: clouds go as fast as the wind. Clouds consist of lots of tiny water droplets, which are pushed around by moving air. So they go about the same speed as the moving air — perhaps a little slower.
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