Micro-climates produced by urban heat make rain clouds dump their loads in inconvenient locations.
Smoke still rose from tree stumps, and even the blessed rain clouds delivered new bolts of lightning.
This left Pakistan with too much to do and as rain clouds gathered in the East, they slipped further and further behind on Duckworth-Lewis.
Meanwhile a team of Swiss researchers are harnessing rays of light for an entirely different purpose -- they've figured out a way to create rain clouds by shooting laser beams into the sky.
Investigators will try to figure out why the plane made such a steep descent into the home and whether the weather conditions -- light rain and low clouds -- played any role, he said.
Computer special effects were used to combine sequences and add water, fire, clouds and rain.
But on launch day it all comes down to the uncontrollable forces of nature: clouds, rain, lighting and vultures.
Ice can form on airplanes when temperatures are near freezing and there is visible moisture, such as clouds or rain.
Perhaps most exciting of all are the rain (nimbo) clouds, suggests Pretor-Pinney.
This information has been provided by Radarsat, a Canadian satellite capable of detecting detailed water and land features through thick clouds, fog and rain using synthetic-aperture radar equipment.
Springwater is trapped by the terraces, and then evaporates, forms clouds and falls again as rain higher up the mountain.
By firing particle beams through it, they would then recreate the rain of cosmic rays and see whether clouds formed.
But clouds quickly gathered, bringing rain and small hailstones, forcing people to take shelter under the massive colonnades lining the square for much of the Mass.
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The crown was lighted in a way "to create the vision of the moment after the clouds open up and the rain comes through, " said Mr. McKenzie.
When Thomas Jefferson described the view from Monticello in 1786, he wrote, "How sublime to look down into the workhouse of nature, to see her clouds, hail, snow, rain, thunder, all fabricated at our feet!"
Back home, they had to deal with an utterly flat landscape laced by rivers and canals much of it below sea level, reclaimed by dikes forever loomed over by dark gray clouds, damp mists, and rain or snow.
Unable to climb through the clouds, they threaded narrow gorges in lashing rain.
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This wire draws down "electrical fire" from the clouds, the charge being conducted earthward along the kite's rain-soaked string.
The set will feature real grass, an oak tree and "clouds" suspended from wires above the stadium - one of which will produce rain, provided the British weather does not provide its own on the night.
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In China, they use artillery shells, rockets and airplanes to spray existing cloud systems with silver iodide, a compound that triggers moisture in the clouds to form ice crystals, which then fall to earth as snow or rain.
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