RAIN Clouds that make rain are billions of tiny drops of water floating around in the air. When the tiny water droplets bump into each other, they grow bigger and heavier until they fall to the ground as rain. In less than an half an hour, a single thunderstorm can drop over 100 million gallons of water and give off more electricity than is used in a large city in an entire week. The booming sound of thunder we hear in these storms is caused by very hot lightning exploding the air. In the same way that magnets attract metal, lightning is attracted to the ground.
Lightning is created inside thunderstorms and can become very hot.
Just one lightning bolt can be 50,000 Fahrenheit . . . Winds in a tornado rotate violently, spinning at speeds of 100 to 300 miles per hour. Tornadoes occur all over the world, but most tornadoes strike the United States. About one-thousand tornadoes hit the United States each year, most of which happens in April, May, and June. A hurricane is a giant, powerful storm with very high winds.