Why a Storm Always Seems to Follow a Hot Day | RainViewer Blog

TL;DR: A very hot day does not just happen to precede the evening storm. It is the storm’s fuel. Warm, humid air rises off the heated ground, cools and condenses into cumulus clouds With enough moisture the cloud grows into a cumulonimbus, the storm cloud itself Lightning comes from charge separation between ice crystals and water droplets inside the cloud Large hail only forms in supercells, where the updraft is strong enough to hold stones aloft A hot day tells you a storm is likely, not where it will actually form It is no coincidence that an extremely hot day often ends with an evening sto