{"id":73275,"date":"2025-08-06T13:10:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T04:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/06\/cloudburst-what-is-it-weather-event-explainer-india-flash-flood"},"modified":"2025-08-06T13:10:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T04:10:22","slug":"what-is-a-cloudburst-the-rare-and-intense-weather-event-blamed-for-deadly-india-flash-flood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73275","title":{"rendered":"What is a cloudburst? The rare and intense weather event blamed for deadly India flash flood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meteorologists say that complex processes combine to create cloudbursts, which can have life-threatening consequences<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/05\/flash-flood-mudslide-hits-indian-town-dharali-deaths\">About 100 people missing as flash flood tears through town in northern India<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A so-called \u201ccloudburst\u201d has been identified as a potential cause of a river of sludge that swamped a village in northwest India, killing at least four people and leaving 100 more missing.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/mausam.imd.gov.in\/Forecast\/marquee_data\/Press%20Release%2005-08-2025%20-.pdf\">Indian Meteorological Department said on Wednesday<\/a> that over the previous 24 hours extreme rainfall of 210 mm or more had been recorded in parts of northwest India, including the state of Uttarakhand where the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2025\/may\/22\/rain-reprieve-expected-for-north-nsw-after-deadly-flooding-smashed-communities\">disaster happened<\/a>. Uttarakhand state chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami said the area had been hit by a \u201ccloudburst\u201d before the deluge of water and debris swamped the village at Dharali.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/06\/cloudburst-what-is-it-weather-event-explainer-india-flash-flood\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meteorologists say that complex processes combine to create cloudbursts, which can have life-threatening consequencesAbout 100 people missing as flash flood tears through town in northern IndiaA so-called \u201ccloudburst\u201d has been identified as a potential&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1200,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[65,455,62,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-extreme-weather","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73276,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73275\/revisions\/73276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}