Friday, 8 July 2022

Cloudburst

A cloudburst is short-term extreme precipitation that takes place over a small area.

Rainfall of 10 cm or more in an hour over a roughly 10 kmx10 km area is classified as a cloudburst event.
  • a cloudburst that hit a camp near the Amarnath cave shrine in J&K
  • flash flood
Updates
22/08/2022:
  • destruction caused by cloudbursts and flash floods in different parts of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand.

Source: The Indian Express

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