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How fast does a raindrop travel?
Depending on the size of the raindrop and the wind speed, updrafts, downdrafts a raindrop can fall at the speed of light. The previous answer was obviously written by an idiot. A raindrop will fall at usually 3 to 8 metres/second. A raindrop will never ever be able to travel at the speed of light.
What term is used to describe powerful downdrafts that originate in thunderstorms?
microbursts
Why does it hail during a tornado?
Not just during tornadoes, but some thunderstorms, as well, there can be a combination of updrafts and downdrafts. Raindrops get caught in the updraft, swept up in a towering cumulonimbus cloud where it freezes and it caught in a downdraft. It may pick up more rain, and be caught in another updraft, refreezing and growing in size, with this cycle repeating until it's to heavy to be carried up again, or until it simply falls to the ground as hail.
What causes air to rise in stage 1?
it's because of the characterized mainly by updrafts.
Is a lifting force part of a thunderstorm?
Yes. Thunderstorms develop when warm, moist air rises from the lower atmosphere. They are powered by these updrafts.
What disaster is a combo of downdrafts and updrafts?
Tornado
Why are there often updrafts and downdrafts in supercells?
All thunderstorms contain updrafts and downdrafts, and in fact no thunderstorm could exist without updrafts. A thunderstorm forms when it a mass moist of air is lifted to a point where it is warmer than its surroundings and so rises on its own. This is the updraft and is the storm's source of power. As a storm matures, rain cools the air within it, causing it to sink and form downdrafts.
What is caused by heavy snowfall combined with strong updrafts and downdrafts?
whiteout
When the movements of air are vertical either updrafts or downdrafts they are called?
IT is called CONVECTION
A circular pattern of updrafts downdrafts and winds is a?
convection cell
The stage in a thunderstorm's development in which the updrafts roughly equal the downdrafts is the?
mature stage
Is it true that hurricanes are classified by three stages in which updrafts of air billow up updrafts and downdrafts swirl the wind up and down then downdrafts cause clouds to come apart?
No. These stages define the life cycle of a thunderstorm, not a hurricane.
Planes often encounter churning updrafts and downdrafts when they pass through storm clouds?
True.
How can updrafts and downdrafts exist in the same thundercloud?
the updraft wind goes up and the down draft wind goes down
Do mostly tornadoes form in updrafts?
Entirely in updrafts. Tornadoes form in the updraft portion of a thunderstorm.
What are two characteristics of a thunderstorm that lead to hail formation?
First water droplets exist in the liquid state in the parts cumulonimbus cloud.second is strong updrafts and downdrafts exist side by side with in a cloud
What is a circular pattern of updraft downdraft and winds called?
convection cell
