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What causes clouds and precipitation?

Updated: 8/17/2019
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Evaporation. When ground water evaporates it turns in to water molecules. the molecules condense and form a cloud when the water in the cloud becomes too heavy the water fall in some form of precipitation. (i.e. rain, snow, sleet, hale...)

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