Cumulus Clouds, are one of the most common of clouds. The name Cumulus means "heap", and there are three types of species of Cumulus:
- Cumulus Humilis
- Cumulus Medicocris
- Cumulus Congestus
Low and detached Cumulus clouds look like big cauliflowers.These clouds have a fairly short lifespan that's why most Cumulus don't produce rain. Only Cumulus Congestus bring rain out of the three, and when they do rain its usually in short spurts. If they don't rain, then continue to build up until becoming the storm cloud, Cumulonimbus.
Cumulus Clouds form when cool liquids heat up and evaporate, this process is called thermals or atmospheric convection. Which is the process of carrying moist up into the atmosphere, this is a caused by solar heat.
When the moist air has risen to a point in the atmosphere, and solidify into a liquid again, -and visible- then condenses during the day to form a Cumulus cloud. Inside the cloud water droplets condense causing the cloud to grow larger, which eventually the Cumulus can produce rain.
