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A cloudburst is an extreme rainfall, which can be mixed with hail, and luckily does normally not last longer than a few minutes. It can "set everything under water" within a few moments and is very often accompanied by thunder. Cloudbursts come out of very high clouds, sometimes even with tops above 15 kilometers. The term describes the imagination of a cloud as a water container which bursts.
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Cloudburst is also a 1951 movie directed by Francis Searle. See [1] (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043418/)
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