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⛈️ Cloud Lab: How Clouds and Thunderstorms Form

Launch an air bubble from a field, a forest or a lake and watch it cool 9.8 °C per kilometre, turn into a flat-based cloud at the dew-point height, and, if the air is warm, moist and cold enough above, explode into a thundercloud with an anvil, rain and lightning. Ray-marched volumetric clouds, a live bubble-versus-air graph, CAPE battery, flash-to-bang counter and real equations with honest simplifications.

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Launch an air bubble from a field, a forest or a lake and watch it cool 9.8 °C per kilometre, turn into a flat-based cloud at the dew-point height, and, if the air is warm, moist and cold enough above, explode into a thundercloud with an anvil, rain and lightning. Ray-marched volumetric clouds, a live bubble-versus-air graph, CAPE battery, flash-to-bang counter and real equations with honest simplifications.

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