Noctilucent Clouds are Intensifying

” The clouds form when summertime wisps of water vapor rise up to the mesosphere, allowing water to crystallize around specks of meteor smoke. ” ~ This is such a nonsense theory. How does water vapor rise in a temperature that goes from 0*C at the Stratopause to -180*C at the mesopause? How is water vapor even existing in those temperatures in this vacuum?

“Noctilucent clouds have been likened to a great “geophysical light bulb” because they turn on abruptly, reaching almost full intensity over a period of ~10 days. ” ~ This is a significant clue. They intensify as the maximum hours of sunlight is approaching and then shutting down as the equinox approaches and the hours of sunlight decreases. In other words, as solar insolation increases these clouds appear. This to me seems more like an ionizing event.

Since nitrogen is just as common in the mesosphere as it is in the troposphere at 78%, I am more inclined to think these noctilucent clouds are not water vapour but perhaps nitrogen vapour. Temperature present isn’t quite low enough to liquify nitrogen, but might be low enough to produce a vapour. Ionized nitrogen in a low pressure environment will glow with a blue hue.

I propose these noctilucent clouds are actually the product of slightly ionized liquid nitrogen in a low pressure environment.