how does rain form
Rain develops from cloud droplets or ice crystals; if it starts as crystals, the rain first takes the form of snowflakes, but they melt when they enter warmer layers of air, changing into raindrops. In thunderstorms that have a central updraft capable of hosting both rain and snow, snowflakes fall, but the liquid water freezes together with them, making ice pellets that keep growing as they add more water droplets.