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"Weather" is caused when water vapor, evaporated by a warm front, hits a cold front, which causes it to condense into rain. A storm is formed when when a thermal, an area (such as a city) that reflects a large amount of the sun's heat back into the atmosphere, creating a column of warm air. Since, warm air has a lower pressure than cool air, a "low pressure area" is created. This area, literally, sucks in surrounding water vapor creating a dense system of multi-layered clouds, and when it is hit by a cold front, you have a storm.

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