CLOUDBURSTS
Sir, —Your correspondent, Mr. Frank Reed, in Saturday's issue of your paper, makes the following statement: —"A cloudburst is an expression tmknown to science and contained in no English dictionary to my knowledge." The undersigned has consulted five different dictionaries in the Auckland Public Library and also the Encyclopaedia Britannica and Hanngworth Kncylopoedia and finds that the word "cloudburst" is defined in all of them as torrential rainfall over a small area of land, in a short space of time. Cloudbursts are electro-static phenomena, that inevitably follow forest denudation. Thomas A. F. Stoxk, 8.K., A.M.I.M.E.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22976, 2 March 1938, Page 17
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96CLOUDBURSTS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22976, 2 March 1938, Page 17
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