Precipitation Cloud particles are so small that they are easily kept afloat by even the weakest updrafts. This is why most clouds do not produce rain.
Lake-Effect over Lakes Smaller than the Great Lakes Image:18 Jan. 2003 Burlington, VT Neil Laird Associate Professor Department of Geoscience, Hobart &
“New Mesoscale Modeling by Raw Output Statistics (ROS) ”
AOSC 200 Lesson 9. Fig. 9.2 Clear area in middle of the image is a hot, cloud-free air mass – resulting heat wave caused 200 deaths in the Midwest.
“New Mesoscale Modeling by Raw Output Statistics (ROS)”