Is rain always accompanied bythunder and lightning?If not, in which season do you get more of thunder and lightning with rain?
2007-01-19 06:00:59 · 15 answers · asked by mehul_dan 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
durin monsoon season.
2007-01-19 06:07:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rain, Thunder and Lightning
What makes rain?
Clouds are made up of millions of droplets of water and ice which are very small and very light. They are so small and light that they can float on air. But these small droplets collide with each other and join together. They get larger and heavier until they get too heavy to float and they fall to the ground as raindrops.
Sometimes in very cold climates the temperature in the cloud falls to below zero and the tiny water droplets freeze. When this happens any water vapour around them condenses onto the frozen droplets and they also get larger and heavier until they fall. When they fall they get warmer and melt, and reach the ground as raindrops.
What makes thunder and lightning?
There are violent air currents inside cumulonimbus clouds that cause ice crystals in the clouds to crash into each other. These collisions create friction and splitting, which creates static electricity. Positive charges build up at the top of a cloud and negative ones build up at the bottom. The ground underneath is positively charged. The difference between charges gets bigger until lightning sparks across the gap. The amount of energy stored by a cumulonimbus cloud is so huge that is it of the same scale as a small atomic bomb.
Lightning heats the air in its path to around 30,000 Celsius, which causes the air to expand very fast (like popcorn). Thunder is the sound of the hot air expanding. Thunder is loud but harmless. We usually hear thunder after we see the flash of lightning because sound travels through the air more slowly than light.
2007-01-19 14:07:30 · answer #2 · answered by Kevin 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Rain can come without lightning and thunder and has many times. It occurs mostly in the months that have the most changing of temperature because the mixture of warm and cold air causes it.
2007-01-19 14:04:37 · answer #3 · answered by capnemo 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
rain isnt always with thunder and lightning. But where theres thunder theres lightning. Spring has the most of the weather.
2007-01-19 14:04:16 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The most thunder and lightning occurs in the summer. It is intensified by the hotter temperatures although you can have thunder and lightning during a snow storm. The most activity, however, occurs in hot, moist temperature areas. That is why Florida has the most storms in the country.
2007-01-19 14:06:56 · answer #5 · answered by diogenese_97 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
lightning and thunder are the reactions of clouds passing by and through eachother causing friction. so it just depends on all the circumstances causing the clouds movement if there will be lightning or thunder in the storm.
i see more durring the spring then any other time in texas.
2007-01-19 14:04:33 · answer #6 · answered by colera667 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why do you provide a verbatim, nonsensical response to any issue regarding climate change? What are your qualifications other than a piehole. I am more likely to defer to the National Academies of Science for direction on this matter than Captain Nemo. Once a fool always a fool.
2007-01-19 15:05:49 · answer #7 · answered by Toku 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no you most likely are to get thunder and lighting during the rainy season like the end of march the month of April and may
2007-01-23 08:25:44 · answer #8 · answered by jay_jay013 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is not so.
its usually only heavy rain that accompanies thunder.
end of june to mid august is usualy the time depending on the place you live
2007-01-20 01:28:43 · answer #9 · answered by Divya 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
IT BOTH SPRING AND SUMMER AND YOU DON'T HAVE TO HAVE IT THUNDER OR LIGHTNING WHEN IT RAINS.
2007-01-19 14:04:48 · answer #10 · answered by misty blue 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lightning is complicated.
2007-01-19 14:04:39 · answer #11 · answered by Sammy D 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋