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Show Know The Weather What is a cloudburst? Is a cloudburst a weather phenomenon or rather an ordinary or-dinary occurrence? A CLOUDBURST is merely terminology used to describe a very heavy rain. In some areas of the country a cloudburst cloud-burst is said to have occurred during the heaviest downpour in a thunderstorm. What is called a cloudburst usually takes place in summer, when high thun-derheads thun-derheads build up and release torrents of water in very large drops (especially at the beginning of the downpour). BUT THERE is actually no difference in what people call a cloudburst and the unusually heavy rain. The term, cloudburst, then is mostly folklore. |