DAUGHTER CELL

As the precipitation downdraught associated with a marked Cumulonimbus event meets the ground, it will spread out in all directions. Where this cold outflow current meets the low level inflow (relative to the cloud motion) 'head-on', then this is a point of maximum convergence, leading to forced lifting of the air at that point, and provided the air is unstable enough, and convection is not otherwise inhibited (e.g. widescale descent), then a new convective cloud event will be initiated - a daughter cell.