Cloudburst

A cloudburst is an enormous amount of precipitation in a short period of time,[1] sometimes accompanied by hail and thunder, which is capable of creating flood conditions.

At times, a large amount of runoff from higher elevations is mistakenly conflated with a cloudburst.

The term "cloudburst" arose from the notion that clouds were akin to water balloons and could burst, resulting in rapid precipitation.

[5] Weather forecast models also face a similar challenge in simulating the clouds at a high resolution.

[5] In the Indian subcontinent, a cloudburst usually occurs when a monsoon cloud drifts northwards, from the Bay of Bengal or Arabian Sea across the plains, then onto the Himalayas and bursts, bringing rainfall as high as 75 millimetres per hour.