Blog #3: Describe How Weather Works in Regards to Clouds, Thunder, Lightning Etc

First of all there are three stages of how a thunderstorm is develop. These three stages is called Cumulus stage, the Mature stage, and the Dissipating stage. The Cumulus Stages is when warm air rise from the earth surface.

There are different ways that upward current or draft of warm air form. Air can be forced upward at weather fronts, a boundary separating two air with different densities. This is where warm and cool air collide.

Another way is when air from the ground heats up from the energy from the sun. which heats the air. The air will then rise to the atmosphere.

If this warm air is moist or humid then it will condense into a cumulus cloud. This cloud will constantly grow as long as the warm air from the surface continue to rise. The second stage is the Mature Stage.

When the cumulus continues to grow. it will eventually becomes very large. The water inside it , will become large and heavy.

Tiny water droplets will start to fall , as more water from the rising is added to the droplets. The droplets will become heavy as it is no longer able to hold them up. The cloud will then starts to look dark and grey as more water is added.

Simultaneously the cool air will enter the cloud and flow downward. The cool air will pull the heavy water downward because cool is heavier than warm air. Now that the cloud have a cycle of air coming up and down which is called a thunderstorm cell, the cloud is now called a cumulonimbus cloud.

Thunder and lightning will start to take place as well as heavy rain. The cycle of air within the clouds will gradual accumulate electric charge as it will past by other air. This growth of electric charge will create lightning to form.

Third and Final stage is the Dissipating Stage. The cool air going downward will become stronger than the warm air coming upward which the storm will break and starts to weaken. Now that the warm air could no longer rise, water droplets will no longer form.

The storm will eventually die out and cloud will disappear. This whole process takes an hour for a normal thunderstorm, however a much more powerful thunderstorm will take several hours. RELATED QUESTION Why is the speed of the centrifugal compressor is kept higher than that of centrifugal pump?

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