Why does it thunder, rain, lightning and hail?
On the charged principle of thunderstorm clouds, an interpretation theory abroad;
/kloc-proposed by J. elster and H. Geitel at the end of 0/9. He believes that precipitation particles such as raindrops or hail are polarized under the action of atmospheric electric field pointing downward (such as sunny electric field), resulting in negative charge on the upper part and positive charge on the lower part, so the cloud drops or ice crystals bouncing back from the lower part of precipitation particles will take away part of the positive charge on the lower part.
Because precipitation particles fall fast, cloud droplets and ice crystals fall slowly, resulting in gravity separation. At this time, the upper part of the cloud is cloud droplets and ice crystals (or only one), forming a positive charge center, and the lower part of the cloud is precipitation particles, forming a negative charge center. According to the calculation, it is found that the process of ice crystal rebound caused by polarized hail collision or the process of cloud droplet rebound caused by polarized raindrop collision can generate electricity in thunderstorm clouds. Since 1970s, many researchers have developed this theory.