Why does it thunder and rain?

After the water on the earth is irradiated by sunlight, it becomes steam and is evaporated into the air. Water vapor condenses into small water droplets when it meets cold air at high altitude. These small water droplets are very small, with a diameter of only 0.0 1 ~ 0.02 mm and a maximum of only 0.2 mm ... They are small and light, and are held up in the air by the updraft in the air. It is these small water droplets that gather in the air to form clouds. These small water droplets will become raindrops and fall to the ground, and the volume will increase by about 1 10,000 times. How did these small water droplets increase their volume to more than 654.38+00,000 times? It mainly relies on two means, one is condensation and sublimation. The second is to rely on the collision and increase of cloud droplets. In the initial stage of raindrop formation, cloud droplets mainly condense and condense themselves by constantly absorbing water vapor around the cloud. If the water vapor in the cloud can be constantly replenished and replenished, so that the surface of the cloud droplets is often in a state of supersaturation, then this condensation process will continue, making the cloud droplets grow and become raindrops. However, sometimes the water vapor content in the cloud is limited, and in the same cloud, the water vapor is often in short supply, so it is impossible to make every cloud droplet grow into a larger raindrop, and some smaller cloud droplets have to be merged into a larger cloud droplet. If there are water droplets and ice crystals in the cloud, the process of condensation and sublimation will be greatly accelerated. When the cloud drops increase to a certain extent, due to the increasing volume and weight of large cloud drops, they can not only catch up with the slower small cloud drops, but also "swallow" more small cloud drops, making themselves stronger. When the big cloud drops get bigger and bigger until the air can no longer hold them, they fall straight from the clouds to the ground and become our common rain.

Why does it thunder?

Lightning is a spectacular and somewhat frightening natural phenomenon, accompanied by lightning and thunder. Lightning is usually produced in cumulonimbus clouds with strong convection, so it is often accompanied by strong gusts and heavy rains, and sometimes accompanied by hail and tornadoes. The top of cumulonimbus clouds is generally very high, up to 20 kilometers, and there are often ice crystals on the top of the clouds. The attachment of ice crystals, the breaking of water droplets and air convection make clouds generate charges. The distribution of charge in the cloud is complicated, but generally speaking, the upper part of the cloud is dominated by positive charges and the lower part is dominated by negative charges. Therefore, a potential difference is formed between the upper and lower parts of the cloud. When the potential difference reaches a certain level, discharge will occur, which is our common lightning phenomenon. The average current of lightning is 30,000 amps, and the maximum current can reach 300,000 amps. The voltage of lightning is very high, about 1 billion to 1 billion volts. The power of medium-intensity thunderstorm can reach10 million watts, which is equivalent to the output power of a small nuclear power plant. In the process of discharge, due to the sudden increase of temperature during flashover, the air volume expands rapidly, resulting in shock waves and strong lightning.