COMPUTER FUNDAMENTALS

Detailed explanation-1: -Strong cumulonimbus storm cells can produce thunder, lightning, hail, torrential rains, strong winds, and tornadoes. Cumulus congestus clouds, having more vertical development than fair-weather cumulus clouds, can also produce light rain, though not significant enough to warrant a name change to nimbus.

Detailed explanation-2: -Cumulonimbus clouds are associated with extreme weather such as heavy torrential downpours, hail storms, lightning and even tornadoes. Individual cumulonimbus cells will usually dissipate within an hour once showers start falling, making for short-lived, heavy rain.

Detailed explanation-3: -Thick, dense stratus or stratocumulus clouds producing steady rain or snow often are referred to as nimbostratus clouds.

Detailed explanation-4: -Do all clouds make rain? Not all clouds produce rain or other types of precipitation (snow, sleet, freezing rain). The latin word “nimbus” means rain and is added as a prefix or suffix to the two clouds that produce precipitation: nimbostratus clouds or cumulonimbus clouds.