Now snow begins to fall from the cloud, and whistling winds begin to blow.
Rain begins to fall from the cloud, splashing down in great drops.
Because of their large size, precipitation particles have significant falling speeds and are able to survive the fall from the cloud to the ground.
Many clouds at mid-latitudes make rain by freezing water into ice crystals (which fall from the cloud then melt before they hit the ground), rather than by coalescing warm water droplets together.
Cirrus clouds often produce hair-like filaments—similar to the virga produced in liquid water clouds called fall streaks, and they are made of heavier ice crystals that fall from the cloud.
On the other side the bright sky sucks up the surrounding conurbation while on the front, a man with a massive spliff falls from the clouds.
In a natural water cycle, rainwater falls from the clouds on to the land, nourishes life, returns through rivers to the salty sea and evaporates as fresh water back into the clouds.
Samaras is squeezed between the demagoguery of this rampant right and the populism of the left-wing anti-austerity Syriza party, which is promising to restore most if not all of what has been lost since Greece, in the local phrase, fell from the clouds.
Indeed, no sooner had Carr grasped the significance of Mt. Gorongosa than he discovered that the rain forest that covered the mountain — simultaneously capturing the water that fell from the clouds and, through evaporation, replenishing it — was being destroyed, piecemeal but steadily, by local practitioners of slash-and-burn agriculture.
A young pop star eager for fame and money makes a deal for a few promising beans with a grizzled music manager-publisher he meets on the road to town; the youngster climbs the beanstalk that grows up, and fights the giant at the top, only to find, on his descent, that the grizzled vet has made off with most of the fortune that fell from the clouds.
