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When hail is formed, it is not instanteous nor fall immediately. Storms have a peculiarosity of up and down flowing winds. When a droplet of water in the clouds began to fall, the very low temperatures present cause the droplet so form a skin of ice. This droplet then goes thru a series of upward and downward journeys until enough ice is formed to the weight that it can escape the forming arena and thus falls to earth. It is well known, for instance, within each piece of hail, no matter the size, the original droplet still exists.
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What kind of clouds were out yesterday?
status clouds or cumulonimbus clouds
What clouds are dark and so full of water that sunlight cant pass through them?
Cumulonimbus clouds are dark and heavily laden with water that sunlight cannot easily penetrate through them. These clouds are associated with thunderstorms and can produce heavy rainfall, lightning, and strong winds.
Do Stratus clouds produce the most rain?
Stratus clouds can produce a steady drizzle or light rain over a wide area, but they typically don't produce heavy rainfall. They are more known for creating overcast conditions and persistent but generally light precipitation. Heavier rainfall is more commonly associated with cumulonimbus clouds.
What is another name for a snow pellet?
Ice pellets are commonly referred to as sleet. Hail is similar, but is larger (5mm or more) and is formed from small pieces of ice. Ice pellets and Hail have different meteorological designations.
What kind of cloud forms in horizontal layers?
They are usually called vertical drapery clouds and are unusual looking and do look like rolled draperies vertically stacked in the air- usually dark clouds- Nimbus type associated with precipitation. They are very rare and strange looking but occur in the normal parts of the atmosphere (not stratospheric or anything like that) may have been responsible for some early UFO reports.
What is a name that form hail besides cumulonimbus clouds?
Hail can form in thunderstorms associated with other types of clouds, such as supercell clouds or multicell storms. These types of storms have strong updrafts and downdrafts that can support the development of hailstones.
How is a cumulonimbus cloud different from other clouds?
Cumulonimbus is the largest type of cloud. It is the only cloud that is tall enough to occupy low, medium and high heights. It is also the only (weather related) cloud that can form hail and lightning. Lightning can also be created in volcanic ash clouds, but they are not a weather related cloud.
What kind of clouds were out yesterday?
status clouds or cumulonimbus clouds
What type of cloud does a hailstone come from?
Hail requires strong updrafts to keep the hydrometeors suspended to accumulate ice. The only clouds that can normally support these updrafts are cumulus or cumulonimbus (thunderstorm) clouds. Hail requires TWO elements. One is an updraft and the other is that the water inside the cloud reaches the freezing level. This normally occurs only in cumulus or cumulonimbus clouds that extend to fairly high altitudes. Fair weather cumulus, for example, do not obtain the needed height to reach the freezing level.
What cloud does hail fall from?
Hail forms in thunderstorms (cumulonimbus clouds) when large updrafts carry water droplets high into the atmosphere where the air is much colder. The water freezes into ice and falls, only to be carried back up again by another updraft, where another layer of ice accumulates on the outside. After numerous trips, gaining more and more layers, the hailstone is too heavy to be lifted aloft by the updrafts, and falls to the ground.
Why does a cumulonimbus indicate a tornado?
It doesn't. Cumulonimbus clouds are the clouds of thunderstorms, as they are formed by towering convective cells. Tornadoes are a product of thunderstorms, but only a small percentage of thunderstorms are tornadic.
True or false hail is only observed directly under the cumulonimbus cloud in which its formed?
False. Hail can fall outside the area directly below the cumulonimbus cloud in which it formed, especially in cases of strong winds that can carry hail for some distance from the storm.
What type of clouds produce lightning?
Cumulonimbus clouds, also known as thunderclouds, are the type of clouds that produce lightning. These clouds are tall, dense, and capable of generating extreme vertical atmospheric motions that result in the buildup of electrical charges and subsequent lightning strikes.
Is cumulonimbus clouds located in the ozone layer?
No, cumulonimbus clouds are located in the troposphere, the lowest layer of Earth's atmosphere. The ozone layer is found in the stratosphere, which is higher up in the atmosphere.
What clouds are dark and so full of water that sunlight cant pass through them?
Cumulonimbus clouds are dark and heavily laden with water that sunlight cannot easily penetrate through them. These clouds are associated with thunderstorms and can produce heavy rainfall, lightning, and strong winds.
Do low cumulonimbus clouds bring both tornadoes and thunderstorms?
Thunderstorms form from cumulonimbus clouds, but they don't have to be low. Some of these thunderstorms can produce tornadoes, but not all. A thunderstorm is the only thing that can produce a tornado. Tornadoes form best from low-based thunderstorms.
What clouds are inside a tornado?
The only cloud you will actually find inside a tornado is the condensation funnel. Other clouds, such as the wall cloud and cumulonimbus are outside the tornado itself.
