cloudburst

It had also been a cloudburst to end all escape plans, at least for the time being.

No light shower this: it was a cloudburst or nothing.

The cloudburst ended abruptly and out came the sun again.

She had been on horseback just prior to the cloudburst.

During a cloudburst, more than 20 mm of rain may fall in a few minutes.

Outside, more rain threatened, and at about ten came another cloudburst like the day before.

Sometimes a cloudburst will be followed by days of crisp, clear sunshine.

The cold rain turned into a cloudburst and soaked us to the skin.

It had probably been made by runoff water over centuries of cloudbursts.

When there are instances of cloudbursts, the results can be disastrous.

In 1882, again after a heavy cloudburst, a new fault was formed.

Then the wood gave under their hands in a cloudburst of sawdust.

When it slowed back down to mere cloudburst, we set off together.

For more than an hour the rain came in a veritable cloudburst.

She looked out of the windows at the enveloping cloudburst.

A girl makes valentines for her friends after a strange cloudburst.

It was as though several tiny cloudbursts were traversing the water.

I scanned the skies, looking for signs of a cloudburst.

And then yesterday afternoon it had rained, a real cloudburst.

Cloudbursts are very hard to predict, but devastating to the places that they hit.

A cloudburst that delivered hail in the form of metal.

A proper summer cloudburst: the streets looked as if they might be washed away.

Never mind if that gutter is streaming from a cloudburst.

Insomnia may yet arrive, but at the moment I can sleep through cloudbursts.

Dinner was about half finished when a cloudburst started.