Not all clouds, but it's quite common and definitely not just luck. There is some steamy science behind those flat-bottomed clouds.
If the conditions are just right, the little cumulus clouds grow into big cumulonimbus storm clouds, towering up through the troposphere.– lowest layer of the atmosphere, where our day-to-day weather happens– marks the boundary between the two layers
Usually, the atmosphere gets cooler and less dense as you get away from the surface, but at the tropopause there is an inversion, where the air gets warmer with height. Sometimes the cloud gets pushed out to the side, causing an anvil at the top of the cloud, named after the blacksmith tool of trade.
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