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Cloudburst

British pronunciation/klˈa‍ʊdbɜːst/
American pronunciation/ˈkɫaʊdˌbɝst/
Cloudburst
[NOUN]
1

a sudden and heavy rainfall

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1Once in a decade, there may be a cloudburst.
2[Narrator] That brilliant cloudburst seems to appear when the jet breaks the sound barrier, and many people have been led to believe that this is a sonic boom, but it's not.
3Odd or quickly immobilized, we understood at last that rain is language, the cloudburst a conversation between atmosphere and earth.
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