Author: Fathima Cherichi Purayil

Janna, I have often interviewed you for Mia's climate diary. Could you please introduce yourself briefly? Sure! I am Janna Rückert and I am a physicist in Bremen. I enjoy climbing (even though there are few mountains here in the north) and my favourite ice cream flavours are cinnamon (to eat) and sea ice (for research).

I recently learned that there are different types of clouds at different altitudes. Now I want to know more about how clouds are formed.

In our atmosphere, clouds are mainly found at altitudes of up to 12 km.

It’s been raining all day today. I’m sitting with Mika on my favorite yellow couch, pondering how rain actually forms. I decided to call Johannes Quaas. He said, “If we look at weather patterns, rain comes about when moist air converges and the water is squeezed out as rain, so to speak.”