Rain-Bearing Clouds Forming Over L'Aquila, Italy

A timelapse video shows rain-bearing clouds forming over L'Aquila, Italy, on May 28th, 2024. Rain-bearing clouds form when warm, moist air rises, cools, and condenses into droplets or ice crystals, creating clouds like nimbostratus and cumulonimbus. These clouds develop through processes such as convection, orographic lift, and frontal lift, leading to precipitation when the droplets become too heavy to remain suspended.