Heat creates the transfer from water to vapor...which then rises.
And the cold upper atmosphere causes the vapor to become solid water...and then rain.
“I think you have it backwards.
Heat creates the transfer from water to vapor...”
That is what I said. REREAD my post.
He has it right. The water evaporation process absorbs heat, cooling the waters surface. The gaseous water vapor rises til it cools, then condenses, giving off the heat it absorbed when it evaporated
In a major system, the volume of water being evaporated then condensed can be very, very large and the amount of heat being transferred from the water to the atmosphere is huge enough to make hurricanes.