It's simply a matter of scale.
As a matter of fact I addressed this very subject two years ago. This is Hurricane Delores off the coast of Baja California in this Aug. 2015 version (the earliest).
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddar...nasa-camera-shows-moon-crossing-face-of-earth
These clouds are moving.
Problems not taken into account:
- The image of Hurricane Dolores is small and hard to see.
- Scale: The Earth is big and the storm is big. The speed at which it is moving and spinning and changing isn't all that great compared to the scale of hundreds and thousands of miles. So even though this is time lapse, there is less movement than they intuitively think.
- The Earth is rotating, so it's very hard to track the movement of the storm. You're trying to keep track of two independent movements. It's really hard to do that.
- Clouds don't simply blow across the sky like boats on a pond. They are very protean. They boil up and dissipate.
- The very large cloud patterns you see in images from space look very much like the much smaller local patterns we see when looking up at the sky; so people feel that the large patterns should act like the small patterns they are used to seeing.
They are relying on purely intuitive concepts about speed, scale and the accuracy of their own perception.
and it's beautiful:
