| cieldumort |
| (Moderator) |
| Tue Jul 24 2007 08:26 PM |
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Re: Rain bombs... is this a new term?
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"Bomb" is a description that is used fairly often in colloquial meteospeak. It can get applied to just about anything that could be loosely described as, well, a "bomb," with a "rain bomb" being one application of the word.
More formally, when discussing very heavy rain events, mets may describe them as "QPF Bombs" - or Quantitative Precipitation Forecast *Bombs*, when the models forecast and/or verify such events.