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Noun: cloudburst  'klawd,burst
  1. A heavy rain
    "The clouds broke after the heavy cloudburst";
    - downpour, deluge, waterspout, torrent, pelter, soaker, gullywasher [US, informal]

Derived forms: cloudbursts

Type of: rain, rainfall

Encyclopedia: Cloudburst

Nearest

cloud base
cloud chamber
cloud computing
cloud cover
cloud grass
cloud nine
cloud over
cloud seeder
cloud up
cloudberry
cloudburst
cloud-covered
cloud-cuckoo-land
clouded
cloudiness
clouding
clouding up
cloudless
cloudlessness
cloudlike
cloudscape