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Last Updated on October 25, 2021
Learn new Hebrew words for rain and rainy days.
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Did you know that the highest annual rainfall ever recorded, in Israel, was at Meron (Upper Galilee) – 1673mm during the rainfall season of 1968/1969? The highest monthly rainfall ever recorded was also at Meron – 744mm in January 1969 – source Israel Meteorological Service.
| English | Transliteration | Hebrew |
| Acid rain | Geshem Humtzi | גשם חומצי |
| Average rainfall | Kamuyot geshamin memutza’ot | כמויות גשמים ממוצעות |
| Cloudburst | Shever anan | שֶׁבֶר עָנָן |
| Cloudy | Me’unan | מְעֻנָּן |
| Condensation | Ibui | עִבּוּי |
| Drizzle | Tiftoof | טִפְטוּף |
| Flood | Shitafon | שִׁטָּפוֹן |
| Hail | Barad | ברד |
| Lightning | Barak | ברק |
| Partly cloudy | Me’unan helkit | מעונן חלקית |
| Rain | Geshem | גשם |
| Rainbow | Keshet | קשת |
| Rain gauge | Mud geshem | מַד-גֶּשֶׁם |
| Stormy | So’er | סוֹעֵר |
| Struck/electrocuted by lightning | Hitchashmel al yedai barak | התחשמל על ידי ברק |
| Thunder | Ra’am | רַעַם |
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