FACT:AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORM DRENCHES MORE THAN A NEWLY BORN EVENING THUNDERSTORM!!

If we are concerned with thunderstorm then we are used to understand a term 'convection'.Atmospheric convection is a condition when warm air rises above cold air sustains at surface.Convection is a only way for release of heat.Due to convection,special type of clouds appear namely Cumulus and if Convection is strong then these cumulus clouds posses a vertical development that changes it to cumulonimbus clouds.

Here is one commonly heard fact or a saying of elders that afternoon thunderstorm drenches an area more than a newly born evening thunderstorm.

As,moisture and instability is a common need of thunderstorms.If a thundercloud is developed during afternoon then during evening instability further increases that causes clouds to further intensify and it can reach at highest peaks.

Higher the altitude more the risk of severe thunderstorm.Severe thunderstorm can cause heavy rain,thunder,lightning, and strong gusty winds.Tornadoes can also develop but an additional ingredient is required for a tornadic thunderstorm or supercell thunderstorm that is highest windshear which causes rising air parcel to rotate causing a formation of cloud known as funnel cloud.

In rare cases,this fact has gone wrong that afternoon thunderstorm drenches more than a newly born evening thunderstorm.

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