what steps of the water cycle cause rainy weather?
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The two steps in the water cycle that cause rainy weather conditions are condensation and precipitation. Condensation is when water vapor changes phase to become liquid water. One of the results of condensation can be clouds containing liquid water
Water evaporates all the time on earth. Even clouds evaporate! And snow and ice evaporate, but then, it is called, sublimation. It evaporates until the air is fully saturated. The warmer the air, the more moisture it can contain.
As the sun heats the earth, in turn, it heats a layer of air above it that rises because warmer air is less dense. As it does, it cools down by the adiabatic effect of a lesser pressure aloft. As it reaches the dew point temperature, some of the moisture must condense into tiny drops of water that we call, the clouds.
But clouds evaporate and the only way they stay the same or even, increase in size, is when they keep rising, thus cooling even more. If that happens, it comes a moment when the drops are so big that they overcome the rising by gravitation and come down as precipitations of snow or rain. If the still keep rising, they may reach the top of the troposphere where they freeze into pellets of ice. When they finally come down, it is as hail, often combined with a thunderstorm.