Originally Posted by
itsnotthatbloodyhard
Be thankful it was just a Weather Event and not another Rain Bomb.
(Part of the problem with the English syllabus seems to be that pretty much everything is now a text, and has to be deconstructed. The poor kids are so busy deconstructing Simpsons episodes and the backs of chip packets that they don’t get much of a chance to learn about spelling and punctuation.)
Weather event is the general technical term for something exceptional happening. Like an event happening to a plane in flight.
A train bombs is a colloquialism used to convey the idea that an exceptional, damaging rain event is happening.
Another term in use is "aerial river'.
More exceptional precipitation events are predicted as a result of global warming because a warmer atmosphere carries more energy and water vapour.