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Re: Rain bombs... is this a new term?
      Tue Jul 24 2007 08:26 PM

"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.

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* Rain bombs... is this a new term? ShanaTX Tue Jul 24 2007 08:26 PM
. * * Things to watch Beach   Fri Jul 27 2007 12:33 PM
. * * Re: Rain bombs... is this a new term? cieldumort   Tue Jul 24 2007 08:26 PM
. * * Re: Rain bombs... is this a new term? ShanaTX   Tue Jul 24 2007 10:28 PM

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