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How thunderstorms are made?
Thunderstorms result from the rapid upward movement of warm, moist air into cooler regions of the atmosphere. This warm air becomes cooler, which causes the moisture (water vapor) to condense into small water droplets. This cooled air with small water droplets become heavy and goes downwards in the atmosphere, and it together forms towering cumulonimbus clouds. Columns of cold air then sink earthward, causing strong downdrafts and horizontal winds to strike the ground. At the same time, electrical charges accumulate on cloud particles (water droplets and ice), then lightning discharges occur when this accumulated electric charge becomes sufficiently large. Lightning heats the air it passes through so intensely and rapidly that shock waves are produced; these shock waves are heard as claps and thunder rolls.
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