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What keeps clouds rain and snow restricted to the troposphere?
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∙ 12y ago
The higher you get in the troposphere, the colder it gets. However, when you reach the stratosphere the temperature starts to increase. A warm parcel of air rising creates a cumulus cloud, and eventually turns into a cumulonimbus cloud, which is a rain/snow cloud. As the warm updraft relies on colder surrounding air for it to be buoyant, as it gets warmer again it is no longer buoyant and begins to flatten out at the base of the stratosphere, unable to rise any further. Evidence of this is shown at the top of the cloud, which appears flattened like a pancake or appearing like an anvil.
So it is this increase of temperature in the stratosphere which keeps rain and snow restricted to the troposphere.
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Do produce rain or snowcumulonimbus and nimbostratus clouds?
Nimbostratus clouds cannot produce rain.
Why are sometimes clouds in the sky that don't rain or snow?
Clouds just collect water, they precipitate (rain) when there is a large amount of water in the clouds, so the clouds that you don't see rain are clouds that have collected water but not enough to precipitate.
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Nevermind, it's the troposphere...
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Precipitation is occurring when the clouds release rain.
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no you need rain clouds
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the clouds are the rain
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Water on the land evaporates and the droplets go up into the sky. When the droplets all crowd together once they're up there, they form clouds. Then the clouds rain the water down and the cycle keeps going and going on again.
What clouds are rain clouds?
Rain clouds are are rain clouds so stop being dumb...that wasn't the right answer u dumbo.
How are clouds and rain related?
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What atmosphere has rain?
The troposphere is the only layer of atmosphere that has rain.
What creates vapor clouds?
When it is hot out and the sun is shining above the water evaporates is called water vapor. So then this keeps happening it keeps making water vapor it makes clouds. And later on it will rain, snow, hale, or have sleet.Thanks for reading!
What is dark rain?
Dark rain Clouds are clouds that are black when it rains
Does Jupiter have clouds and acid rain?
Jupiter has clouds, but not acid rain.
