Other forms: cloudbursts
A cloudburst is a violent fall of rain over a small area. A sudden cloudburst, caught in a cloudburst, the cloudburst passed.
It is short, local and intense, which is why one street can be flooded while the next stays dry. Drains are designed for a rate of rainfall, and a cloudburst is what happens when that rate is exceeded.
1nouncloudburstA violent fall of rain over a small area.
“A sudden cloudburst soaked us before we could get back to the car.”
cloudburst is a rain.
Cloud plus burst, from the old idea that a cloud had split open.
From cloud + burst.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA