How does rain intensity work?

Question

I understand how rain works, but how does rainfall become slow or fast? How is it possible that during the same rain shower the pace with which the drops fall varies? So basically the difference between pouring and drizzling from the same cloud.

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Answer 1

Clouds move, and the rain in the middle of the cloud is much heavier (as there is more water there to collect into drops). So depending on which part of a cloud is moving overhead, the rain intensity changes.