Pulling one cloud into another sounded like something out of a fantasy, yet it could be done with ease in the world of One Piece.
For example, Doflamingo's String-String Fruit could easily grab one cloud and swing to another. It could even grab clouds and fly.
And as the Logia Devil Fruit closest in form to clouds, Smoker's Smoke-Smoke Fruit could naturally push clouds around.
When he transformed into smoke and rose high into the sky, pushing one cloud gradually toward another, Nami, Koza, and the others on the ground held their breath.
Enel stood nearby with his arms crossed, sneering coldly at these country bumpkins who had never seen the world. Clearly, this was nothing to him; he could do it easily as well.
But when the two clouds gradually merged and massive thunderclaps, crackling with static electricity, began to erupt, his eyes widened in surprise. He clearly had not expected the clouds to start bursting with lightning the moment they drew close.
"They're cumulonimbus clouds," Nami said, hands on her hips, smiling proudly.
Cumulus clouds formed when air underwent adiabatic cooling through convection, causing water vapor to reach saturation and condense.
They included fair-weather cumulus, towering cumulus, cumulonimbus, and fractus cumulus.
Normally, rain clouds like these could be created through air convection. But with ready-made material available, all they needed to do was pile natural clouds together, make them collide, and blend them slightly to form cumulonimbus clouds naturally.
Cumulonimbus clouds were often accompanied by thunderstorms, showers, or occasional tornadoes.
And this time, when Smoker brought the two clouds together, thunder rolled overhead one after another, like the prelude to a raging storm.
Thunderstorms in the desert were terrifying, because there were few shelters or lightning rods and not many buildings to help people evade lightning strikes. People