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What is a large dark cumulus cloud with lightning rain and gusty winds known as?
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This is called a cumulonimbus cloud.
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Can you name clouds?
Yes. The highest clouds are the cirrus clouds, which are thin, wispy, and white, and there are cirro-cumulus clouds, which are puffy clouds. The middle clouds are the altostratus clouds which blanket the sky. There is also the altocumulus clouds which is also a puffy cloud. Lastly, there is the cumulus cloud which is as well puffy. Finally, we have the lowest clouds. the first one is the stratocumulus cloud which is ALSO puffy. there is the nimbostratus cloud which produces rain. then there is the stratus cloud, also know as fog. Finally there is the cumulonibus cloud, also known as a thunderhead. it has not either a high, middle, or low cloud. it stretches from the high clouds to the low clouds. as you can guess by its name, it produces heavy rain and thunderstorms. There are many clouds with the same features but an easy way to remember them is by the parts of its name: cirro/cirrus- high alto- middle cumulus/cumulo- puffy nimbo/nimbus- produces rain stratus/strato- low
What cloud has gray rain clouds and it is low?
I believe that would be a cummulonimbus cloud, more commonly known as a storm cloud.
A type of a cloud that forms in flat layers and often covers much of the sky?
This type of cloud would be known as a stratus cloud
The beginnings of a tornado are known as a funnel cloud?
Yes. A tornado is often visible as a funnel cloud as it develops.
What is a cloud of gas that is known as the birthplace of stars?
A nebula
What cloud produces drizzle?
The type of cloud that is known to produce drizzle is called a Stratus cloud. Cumulus clouds are also able to produce drizzle.
What are white puffy clouds with flat bottoms called?
The clouds that are puffy masses formed by vertically rising air are commonly known as thunderheads. These clouds, with the scientific name of cumulonimbus, may produce severe weather such as lightning, hail, and even tornadoes.
How can you have thunderstorms without lightning?
Thunderstorms typically include lightning as a result of electrical discharge between clouds or between a cloud and the ground. However, in some cases, thunderstorms can occur without visible lightning due to certain weather conditions, such as the absence of sufficient charge separation or the lightning occurring within the cloud itself, known as "intra-cloud" lightning.
How do you identify a cumulus cloud?
Cumulus clouds are puffy, billowing clouds rather than stratified, and can exist as well-defined within a mass of otherwise clear air. Rapid heating can cause towering cumulus clouds or may create the related forms known as cumulonimbus (thunderstorm) clouds.
What are cirrus status and cumulus clouds?
I'm guessing that you meant to type "stratus". Stratus clouds are the lowest forming cloud in the atmosphere (even fog is a type of stratus). They can produce light precipitation. Also those little "pieces" of cloud that you see sometimes are a type of stratus known as stratus fractus. Cumulus form mid-troposphere. And the cumulus family consists of cumulus humilis, mediocris, and congestus. Cumulonimbus are in the cumulus family and consist of such formations as cumulonimbus calvus, cumulonimbus with pileus, cumulonimbus capillitus, and cumulonimbus incus. Cirrus clouds are those "thin and wispy" looking clouds way up in the troposphere. They are the highest cloud formation.
How often do planes get struck by lightning?
Quite frequently, especially cloud to cloud lightning. This was rarely a problem with metal planes, but with modern composites which don't conduct electricity well, severe damage has been known to occur.
Describe the formation of a thunderstorm?
When the cumulus cloud becomes very large, the water in it become large and heavy. Raindrops start to fall through the cloud when the rising air can no longer hold them up. Meanwhile, cool dry air starts to enter the cloud. Because cool air is heavier than warm air, it starts to descend in the cloud (known as a downdraft). The downdraft pulls the heavy water downward, making rain. This cloud has become a cumulonimbus cloud because it has an updraft, a downdraft, and rain. Lightning and thunder start to occur, as well as heavy rain. The cumulonimbus is now a thunderstorm cell.
Electricity released which has built up in thunder clouds by evening?
The discharge of electricity built up during a storm can be dangerous. It is a static discharge that is generated by positive an negatively charged clouds. When these clouds come in close contact with each other there is an electrical static discharge. This is known as lightning.
Can you name clouds?
Yes. The highest clouds are the cirrus clouds, which are thin, wispy, and white, and there are cirro-cumulus clouds, which are puffy clouds. The middle clouds are the altostratus clouds which blanket the sky. There is also the altocumulus clouds which is also a puffy cloud. Lastly, there is the cumulus cloud which is as well puffy. Finally, we have the lowest clouds. the first one is the stratocumulus cloud which is ALSO puffy. there is the nimbostratus cloud which produces rain. then there is the stratus cloud, also know as fog. Finally there is the cumulonibus cloud, also known as a thunderhead. it has not either a high, middle, or low cloud. it stretches from the high clouds to the low clouds. as you can guess by its name, it produces heavy rain and thunderstorms. There are many clouds with the same features but an easy way to remember them is by the parts of its name: cirro/cirrus- high alto- middle cumulus/cumulo- puffy nimbo/nimbus- produces rain stratus/strato- low
Describe cumulus clouds?
A large, white, fluffy cloud that generally appears during fair weather, although they also form thunderheads on hot days, and some can carry rain. (These are what children always draw when asked to draw a cloud.) Appear at roughly 6500 to 20000 feet. Composed mainly of water droplets. I read it goodly
What causes the atmospheric air to be heated rapidly?
The positive charge fixes near the top of the cloud and the negative charge at the base. A positive shadow charge builds up on the ground beneath. An electric current is then discharged in a blinding flash as lightning zig zags between ground and cloud. A weak spark known as the stepped leader reaches down from the cloud and a positive leader rises to meet it. The main discharge called the return stroke takes place from ground to cloud along the channel created by the two leaders. We also see intra-cloud lightning within the cloud and inter-cloud lightning between clouds. When the lightning is hidden or diffused by clouds we call it sheet lightning. Air around the discharge channel is heated to about 30,000 C (55,000 F). The sound of thunder is made by heated air expanding very rapidly and causing soundwaves.
What is lighthning?
lightning occurs because of a sudden gain of electrostatic discharge by clouds. It is uncertain how exactly the electrical charge forms but it is known that it is caused when clouds crash into each other. Heavier molecules in the cloud carry the charge to the bottom of the cloud. A lot of people think lightning travels either from the ground up or from the sky to ground. Both are true depending on the charge (whether is + or -). There is also cloud to cloud lightning which acts the same way. When the charge is great enough to move through air resistance, it moves or "strikes" it is still sort of one of those 'mysteries'
