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Q: What is the in a towering cloud is slowly spreading across the sky?
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What is the name given to a towering cloud that has not fully developed into a thunderstorm?

cumulus humilis


How would one describe a cumulus cloud?

A cumulus cloud looks like a big piece of floating cotton. They are mostly flat in the bottom and the top has rounded towers. They are also called towering cumulus.


What conditions lead to the formation of a thunder cloud?

Warm moist air rising rapidly meeting cooler airabove. This leads to water vapor condesing andthe beginning of a cloud. This build-up continuesas more warm air rises until a towering cloudexists reaching 10 km above the surface. The topof this cloud consists of ice crystals.


What causes a funnel cloud?

Afunnel cloud is a funnel-shaped cloud of condensed water droplets, associated with a rotating column of wind and extending from the base of a cloud (usually a cumulonimbus or towering cumulus cloud) but not reaching the ground or a water surface. A funnel cloud is usually visible as a cone-shaped or needle like protuberance from the main cloud base. Funnel clouds form most frequently in association with supercell thunderstorms.If a funnel cloud touches the ground it becomes a tornado. Most tornadoes begin as funnel clouds, but many funnel clouds do not make ground contact and so do not become tornadoes. Also, a tornado does not necessarily need to have an associated condensation funnel---if strong cyclonic winds are occurring at the surface (and connected to a cloud base, regardless of condensation), then the feature is a tornado. Some tornadoes may appear only as a debris swirl, with no obvious funnel cloud extending below the rotating cloud base.A funnel cloud that touches down on, or moves over water is a waterspout.


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