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Yes. Intense thunderstorms have high cloud tops, and they higher they go the colder they get.
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What is the difference in height between an ordinary thunderstorm and a severe thunderstorm?
Generally, the stronger the storm, the taller it is. Severe storms often have tops over 50,000 feet.
What cloud is fluffy towering with flat tops that often produce thunderstorms?
cumulonimbus, sometimes called a thunderhead.
What will an alien look like on Jupiter and why it will look like that?
Science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke wrote the story "A Meeting With Medeusa" in which a human explorer parachuted into Jupiter's cloud tops and inflated a hot air balloon - excuse me, a hot-HYDROGEN balloon - in order to observe the cloud layers of Jupiter's atmosphere. In the story, Jupiter was teeming with life, all suspended within the cloud tops. The story is worth reading.
Where can you find glaciers?
Glaciers are found in colder places like Alaska and Antartica. Wherever it's cold enough: mountain tops, Antarctica, Greenland, Iceland, the Alps. how many glaciers are on earth?
What do you see instead of a solid surface when you look at an image of giant planet?
cloud tops The four largest planets in our solar system are gas giants. They have no solid surface.
How do colors in a satellite help forecasters determine how much rain is falling from the cloud bands?
In this case you would be referring to infrared satellite. You cannot directly determine rainfall rates from infrared imagery. But they can be useful to determine how how the clouds extend into the atmosphere, since higher cloud tops will show up as colder. Higher cloud tops indicate the possibility of intense rainfall associated with deep convection, which is usually an intense thunderstorm.
What is Dark rain clouds called?
A Thunderstorm cloud is called cumulonimbus cloud. They can range in height from 30,000 feet to 70,000 feet into the atmosphere. The taller the cloud, the more power that has built up within it.
Can you have a thunderstorm in the stratosphere?
The majority of the volume of a thunderstorm will always be in the troposphere, however, the tops of some very severe thunderstorms can penetrate into the stratosphere.
What is the difference in height between an ordinary thunderstorm and a severe thunderstorm?
Generally, the stronger the storm, the taller it is. Severe storms often have tops over 50,000 feet.
What height does a thunderstorm cloud reach?
It's common for many cloud tops in a thunderstorm to be higher than 55,000 feet above sea level, says Brent McRoberts of Texas A&M University. Clouds over that range belong in a special category. "That may be as high as they get over the U.S., but in other parts of the world, thunderstorm clouds can be even higher," he says. "In 1990 in the Coral Sea off eastern Australia, some nearby weather balloons measured a thunderstorm cloud to be at least 63,000 feet high. And in the northern Australia and Indonesia area, sometimes called the 'maritime or oceanic continent,' some of the highest clouds known have been reported, several measuring from 65,000 to 72,000 feet by astronauts in the space shuttle. It can happen, but it's rare to see thunderstorms reach more than 65,000 feet."
What do you see instead of a solid surface when you look at an image of a giant planet?
well yahoo says cloud tops and a core of either liquid or metalic gas. but i would go with cloud tops because its the top contributor
Is cumulonimbus cloud flat?
No. Cumulonimbus clouds have flat bottoms and tops, but are very tall.
What is an example of an artificial sattelite that measures temperature?
Almost every satellite aside from communications satellites measures temperature. Weather satellites geostationary and polar orbiters measure infrared radiation and the temperature can be inferred when the emissivity of the radiation surface is known. While not always knowing this emissivity may seem to be a weakness it is actually use to determine characteristics of the radiation surface. A common example of a use of measuring temperature is that of thunderstorm cloud tops. The storms with the coldest cloud tops are either the heaviest rain producers or may even be severe (large hail and damaging winds).
What cloud is fluffy towering with flat tops that often produce thunderstorms?
cumulonimbus, sometimes called a thunderhead.
Why are clouds not flat on top?
Some can be, for instance stratocumulus cloud trapped beneath a temperature inversion. As the inversion breaks down through the day from heating, the tops of the cloud become more ragged.
What is the purpose of a compression top?
You might find that people believe that these tops promote healing help you lose weight, and are recommended in a wide variety of sports. The use of these tops also promote endurance during intense workout.
Why do clouds and snowfall happen at the tops of mountains?
Because it's facking cold mate!
