Show EXPERT EXPLAINS IEA I-IEA HEAVY VY RAINFALL IN CLOUDBURST Why a n cloudburst may moy yield many mony times as ns much rain as all the water In n the cloud when the rain be begins Ins Is explained by Charles F. F Talman lalman well known meteorologist of f the United States weather bureau bu bu- bu- bu reau In un an account for tor the tho Ameri Amen American AmerIan an can Nature association of ot Washing Washington ton lOn says the Baltimore Sun Even the densest clouds never contain con con- tame tain more than about one part of or water ater to parts of ot air which Is ts far much less than the water In Inmany Inmany inmany many so called cloudbursts which have ha been observed and measured sven even If It every bit of cloud condensed and end fell as os rain at nt the same Instant It t Is a usual eq experience also that the clouds do not vanish during n a cloudburst but are ore apparently just justas as ss s thick and ond dense afterward as ns be before before fore Mr Talman explains that a 0 cloudburst cloudburst cloudburst cloud cloud- burst really reany Is an on especially sudden and md violent thunder storm In which great ent currents of ot warm moist air from from close to the ground rush rapIdly rapIdly rapIdly rap- rap Idly a 0 mile or more up Into the at at- f I are cooled Gt suddenly by by this rise and give gho up their thel- load of ot moisture In tho the form of raindrops The rapid up currents of air may keep most of ot these raindrops aloft for a n while but presently the tho upward up ward air currents slacken nn and billions bil bU lions Mons of the tho suspended droplets fallas fall fallas fallas as a 0 violent ram rain The water In ono one of ot these sudden falls may have been drawn from thelow thelow the tho tholow low air for many square miles aroun around the spot where the cloudburst cloudburst cloud cloud- burst happens What may have been the worlds world's record cloudburst Is described described described de de- scribed as os 24 Inch Inches s of ot rain tailing falling In less than five fire minutes s but Mr Dir Talman Is skeptical The maximum acceptable record Is one of ot about an nn Inch of ot rain In a minute which fell feU In California In 1920 |