Scientists have studied cloud types and have realized that rain clouds are formed and shaped according to definite systems and certain steps connected with certain types of wind and clouds. One kind of rain cloud is the cumulonimbus cloud.  Meteorologists have studied how cumulonimbus clouds are formed and how they produce rain, hail, and lightning. They have found that cumulonimbus clouds go through the following steps to produce rain:

1)  The clouds are pushed by the wind: Cumulonimbus clouds begin to form when wind pushes some small pieces of clouds (cumulus clouds) to an area where these clouds

2)   Joining: Then the small clouds join together forming a larger cloud.

3)  Stacking:  When  the  small  clouds  join  together,  updrafts within the larger cloud increase. The updrafts near the center of the cloud are stronger than those near the edges. These updrafts cause the cloud body to grow vertically, so the cloud is stacked up. This vertical growth causes the cloud body to stretch into cooler regions of the atmosphere, where drops of water and hail formulate and begin to grow larger and larger.  When these drops of water and hail become too heavy for the updrafts to support them, they begin to fall from the cloud as rain, hail, etc.

God has said in the Qur�an:

        Have you not seen how God makes the clouds move gently, then joins them together, then makes them into a stack, and then you see the rain come out of it... . (Qur�an, 24:43)

Meteorologists have only recently come to know these details of cloud formation, structure, and function by using advanced equipment like planes, satellite, computers, balloons, and other.

Meteorologists have only recently come to know these details of cloud formation, structure, and function by using advanced equipment like planes, satellite, computers, balloons, and other.

I'd like you to prove this

The Quran were revealed to the prophet 1400 or so years ago and technology and advances were only been known few years after the revelation of the Quran to the Prophet.

The first (artificial) satellite to be invented by the Russian which were called Sputnik 1 was on October 4, 1957

I love clouds too sis Martha, it has many forms and sometimes it amazes me looking at it, How Mighty Allah is, sobhanallah. He created all this for us to enjoy and benefit from.

I love to walk in the rain too� like what most kids do.. 

clouds move gently...
Ooh, now there's a revelation!

clouds join together...
No they don't.  Clouds form, and clouds disperse.  To join together, at least one of them would have to be moving against the wind.

clouds "stack"...
Well, they can change altitude, and they can grow vertically, but what exactly does "stack" mean?

rain comes from clouds...
Yeah, science is only now beginning to recognize the relationship between clouds and rain.

Ronn, check this out

According to the scientists today:

"Water vaporizes from the oceans and rivers forming tiny clouds. The small clouds join together and the updrafts within the larger cloud increase. The updrafts closer to the center are stronger, because they are protected from the cooling effects by the outer portion of the cloud.

These updrafts cause the cloud body to grow vertically, so they could is stacked up. This vertical growth causes the cloud body to stretch into cooler regions of the atmosphere where drops of water and hail formulate and begin to grow larger and larger. When these drops of water and hail become too heavy for the updrafts to support them, they begin to fall from the cloud as rain, hail, etc." (from "The Atmosphere" p. 269 and "Elements of Meteorology" pp. 141-142)

{"Have you not seen how God makes the clouds move gently, then joins them together, then makes them into a stack, and then you see the rain come out of it..."} (Qur'an 24:43)

Meteorologists have only recently come to know these details of cloud formation, structure, and function by using advanced equipment like planes, satellites, computers, balloons, and other equipment to study wind and its direction, to measure humidity and its variations, and to determine the levels and variations of atmospheric pressure.

{"... And He sends down hail from mountains (clouds) in the sky, and He strikes with it whomever He wills, and turns it from whomever He wills. The vivid flash of its lightning nearly blinds the sight."} (Qur'an 24:43)

Meteorologists have found that these cumlonimbus clouds, that shower hail, reach a height of 25,000 to 30,000 ft. (4.7 to 5.7 miles) like mountains, as the Qur'an says;

{"...And He sends down hail from mountains (clouds) in the sky..."}

This discovery were just found out recently after advance equipment were invented such as satellite, computers and all apparatus the scientist used to prove their theories. And all this facilities being used for their discoveries were invented after the revelation of the Quran.

Theory of Aristotle (1600 AD) :

The atmosphere contains two kinds of exhalation, moist and dry. He also said that thunder is the sound of the collision of the dry exhalation with the neighboring clouds, and lightning is the inflaming and burning of the dry exhalation with a thin and faint fire. (Works of Aristotle Translated into English pp. 369 a&b)

STACKED UP means PILED UP or HEAPED UP

It means that the Quran have said it long before the scientist have discovered it! Do I need to spell out the obvious?? Why in the world would I compare what the science says about the formation of cloud and that of what Allah said in the Quran??

I'm speaking in the context you are using. Ok it is mentioned in the Quran long before scientist, and your point? Scientist have never said they discovered cloud formation today or has made some revelation about clouds.

Well, I am not astounded if you all act this way, no matter what the Quran says you wont believe in it and keep on disbelieving, rejecting and mocking it..it�s not news to me. Quran is the only authentic word of Allah whether you believe it or not and it does talk about everything, present and past  and it�s not surprising for He is the Creator of all that exists.

I will try to post here all the scientific miracles in the Quran I could find and if you believe it or not�that�s your choice�your challenges for me to �prove it� will just be ignored..the proof is there, what proof you want me to show?? Am not a scientist in the first place, I read the article, believe in it and share it the MUSLIMS.. About the description of clouds, its how your scientist explained it Ronn, they use it to prove their theory, but their theory on how the rain, hail, thunder and lightening were formed are RIGHT or TRUE- thats what Allah says in the Quran..