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Depending on many different conditions the temperature on the ground during a thunderstorm can be well below freezing (<32F) to over 100F. Inside the thunderhead clouds themselves the temperature at the bottom is above freezing but at the top the temperature is often well below freezing.
The fluffy frozen water that falls from clouds is snowflakes.
usually rain, but sleet, hail, or snow are also possible depending on the temperature profile in the clouds and strength of updrafts.
Cumulonimbus.
During precipitation, a water particle is released from the clouds. This particle can be in the form of a water droplet of rain, sleet, snow, freezing rain or even hail.
The stage of a thunderstorm that rain begins to fall is when the clouds begin to turn black and during and after the lightning strikes.
Depending on many different conditions the temperature on the ground during a thunderstorm can be well below freezing (<32F) to over 100F. Inside the thunderhead clouds themselves the temperature at the bottom is above freezing but at the top the temperature is often well below freezing.
The fluffy frozen water that falls from clouds is snowflakes.
usually rain, but sleet, hail, or snow are also possible depending on the temperature profile in the clouds and strength of updrafts.
Cumulonimbus.
During precipitation, a water particle is released from the clouds. This particle can be in the form of a water droplet of rain, sleet, snow, freezing rain or even hail.
Clouds
Water evaporates from the surface of the earth. It then condenses into clouds. When the water particles get too big to be held in the clouds, they fall to earth in rain. If its cold enough, they form ice crystals and it turns into snow. If they get held aloft in high winds during a thunderstorm, they might freeze into larger ice chunks called hail. Precipitation is water falling from a cloud to the earth.
This step comes after condensation (after the formation of clouds. During this step, clouds release water through precipitation. Examples are rain and snow. Basically, precipitation is water falling from the clouds to the earth.
cumulonimbus
cumulonimbus
During the thrid and final stage of a thunderstorm, all the currents move down. The clouds get smaller as the rain falls from them.(: