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answ2. A cumulus cloud that reaches to great heights will eventually encounter air cold enough to freeze the moisture.
[Some of the energy is absorbed by the 'latent heat of fusion' which is when the vapour condenses as liquid water. A smaller quantum of energy is similarly stored as 'latent heat of freezing'.]
This temperature gradient will cause vigorous vertical circulation, and will create and store electric charge on some regions.
Sometimes the upper layers of the cloud reach a strong cross wind, and in this case, the cloud top will assume the shape of an anvil, and are so called.
Cumulus clouds tend to have well defined edges, and have fluffy shapes.
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