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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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