which type of cloud would you expect the heaviest precipitation?
Chemistry · Middle School · Mon Jan 18 2021
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The type of cloud that typically produces the heaviest precipitation is a cumulonimbus cloud.
Cumulonimbus clouds are large, towering clouds associated with thunderstorms.
These clouds can reach high into the atmosphere and have a distinctive anvil-shaped top.
Cumulonimbus clouds are capable of producing intense and severe weather conditions, including heavy rainfall, thunder, lightning, hail, and even tornadoes.
The updrafts within cumulonimbus clouds can carry water droplets to high altitudes where they freeze, creating ice particles.
These particles then collide and merge, forming larger precipitation particles that can fall to the ground as rain, hail, or other forms of precipitation.