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- Dictionarycloudburst/ˈklaʊdbəːst/
noun
- 1. a sudden violent rainstorm.
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A cloudburst is a enormous amount of precipitation in a short period of time, sometimes accompanied by hail and thunder, which is capable of creating flood conditions. Cloudbursts can quickly dump large amounts of water, e.g. 25 mm of the precipitation corresponds to 25,000 metric tons per square kilometre (1 inch corresponds to 72,300 short tons over one square mile). However, cloudbursts are inf... Wikipedia