Talk:Cumulonimbus cloud

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[edit] Energy

When the warm air rises above the typically cooler air above it, it starts to cool and the water vapor condenses into water droplets. This adds more energy to the cloud …

How does it add more energy to the cloud? Should "This" be "The heat released as a result"? -- Mpt 14:56 16 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Also, when distilling this article, I removed the following.

  • The method of calculating how close lightning is by listening to the thunder. That makes far more sense in thunder, where it is already.
  • The advisory text about safety in thunderstorms. IMO it's straining credibility to suggest that such text should be anywhere except in lightning (where it is already) and in thunderstorm. As an analogy, there isn't (and shouldn't be) advisory text in plate tectonics about safety in earthquakes. -- Mpt

From the beginning: "involved in thunderstorms and other bad weather"

I don't think it should say "bad" weather, as that is rather subjective.

-wanderingOne

[edit] Incus

The body of this article (maybe under "Appearance" section) should link to Cumulonimbus incus. Not quite sure what the relationship is, so won't do it myself. Stevage 08:41, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cloud 9?

The business about "Cloud #9" sounds like folk etymology. Unless someone comes up with a rock-solid reference, I recommend that this discussion be eliminated.

[edit] NPOV

"Thunderstorms and other bad weather..." Calling thunderstorms "bad" – POV? In an article about clouds? Am I being ridiculous? Or just a little cumulonimbus... Morganfitzp 02:10, 13 September 2006 (UTC)