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Hail forms from clouds when ice crystals in clouds become too large.

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Do cirrus clouds produce thunderstorms?

Cirrus clouds are high-altitude clouds made up of ice crystals and are not typically associated with thunderstorms. Thunderstorms are usually produced by cumulonimbus clouds, which are large, puffy clouds that form at lower altitudes and are associated with strong updrafts and severe weather.


What causes clouds to precipitate?

Clouds precipitate when water droplets or ice crystals within the cloud grow large enough to overcome the forces keeping them aloft, such as updrafts. Once the droplets or crystals become too heavy, they fall out of the cloud as precipitation, such as rain or snow.


How is rain associated with clouds?

Rain is associated with clouds because precipitation occurs when water droplets or ice crystals in clouds become large enough to fall to the ground. Clouds are formed by water vapor in the air condensing into tiny water droplets or ice crystals, which then gather together to form clouds. When these droplets or crystals grow too heavy to stay aloft, they fall as rain.


Drops of water or ice that become too large to be suspended in clouds are called?

yes there are ice crystals in some certain types of cloud, like irrus, because it is so high up the water freezes.


What are cumulonimbus clouds composed of?

Cumulonimbus clouds are high clouds. The contain a large amount of moisture throughout and ice crystals at the top of the clouds. Strong convection currents and heavy winds are found in these clouds. Cumulonimbus clouds produce lightening and hail.


What type of clouds might become extremely large black and ominous looking?

Nimbostratus clouds.


What is the large masses of water vapor called?

Large masses of water vapor are called clouds. Clouds are formed when warm air rises and cools, causing the water vapor to condense into tiny water droplets or ice crystals.


What kind of cloud brings snow?

Cirrostratus clouds can bring snow. These thin, high clouds typically indicate upcoming precipitation, such as snowfall, as they consist of ice crystals and cover a large area of the sky.


How do thunder clouds that contain large pieces of ice crystals become elecrically charged?

Good question. And the experts disagree. There are three major competing theories and I suggest you "Google" "electric charge cloud" to get a bunch of answers and theories.


What accounts for the large spaces of blue sky between cumulus clouds?

the weight of the rain in the clouds stretch them so the become spacy


By which process does water vapor change into clouds?

Water vapor changes into clouds through a process called condensation. As warm, moist air rises in the atmosphere, it cools and the water vapor condenses into tiny water droplets or ice crystals, forming clouds. These clouds can further develop into precipitation when the droplets or crystals grow large enough to fall back to the Earth as rain or snow.


How does rain stay in the clouds?

Rain is able to stay in the clouds for a couple of reasons. First, rain begins as vapor, which is lighter than air. It has to condense to become precipitation. Second, the large up-drifts of wind help the vapor stay in the air for a long time.