Sunset Over Reno

by Donna Kennedy

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Sunset Over Reno

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Donna Kennedy

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Photograph - Photographs

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Original Fine Art Photography by Donna Kennedy
A dramatic summer sky over the "Biggest Little City" in Reno Nevada

Thunderstorms form on warm sunny days when warm air currents rise above the Earth’s surface producing towering thunderstorm clouds that produce rain, lightning, hail and occasionally tornadoes. NOAA estimates that each year there are over fourteen million thunderstorms on our planet that means approximately 40,000 thunderstorms occur somewhere on Earth each day.

Summertime often produces cumulus clouds as the warm surface of the Earth heats the air above land. The air expands as it heats up creating an updraft because the expanding air is lighter than the cooler denser that surrounds the rising currents of warm air. The rising air creates updrafts that move upward in the atmosphere where it first forms cumulus clouds.

The updrafts of warm air soon create towering thunderstorm clouds that typically reach 20,000 feet or more on warm sunny days. The air cools as it rises forming water droplets as the air condenses. The water in the clouds as it moves upwards begins to form tiny ice crystals. The water droplets and ice crystals are caught in the turbulent air rising and falling in the clouds.

Thank you to the Administrators that Featured this photo in the following Groups:
-Light Marvels
-Just Perfect
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September 19th, 2019

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