SSC MTS EXAM

Detailed explanation-1: -Like many clouds, the cumulonimbus develops when warm air rises from the surface of the earth. As the warm air rises, it cools, and water vapor condenses into minute cloud droplets. In a thunderstorm, the updraft of warm air is rapid, and the cloud builds up quickly.

Detailed explanation-2: -If enough atmospheric instability, moisture, and lift are present, then strong updrafts can develop in the cumulus cloud leading to a mature, deep cumulonimbus cloud, i.e., a thunderstorm producing heavy rain.

Detailed explanation-3: -Peaks typically reach to as much as 12, 000 m (39, 000 ft), with extreme instances as high as 21, 000 m (69, 000 ft) or more. Well-developed cumulonimbus clouds are characterized by a flat, anvil-like top (anvil dome), caused by wind shear or inversion at the equilibrium level near the tropopause.