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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