For the past four years, we have been tracking the British, French and Italian press for the
genesis and establishment of a new weather term: the 'water bomb'. The term has, today, become
established in Italy to qualify a cloudburst that is newsworthy. That is, it bursts over a populated
area within the newspaper catchment to cause localized damage. The term became well-established
during the stormy and damaging summer of 2014 in Italy, being used 54 times across 64 Italian
newspapers analyzed between 13 July and 16 August 2014. The establishment of the term is
interesting, and shows how terminology can be introduced by the media down, without regard for
existing terms that are already appropriate, such as cloudburst. It can also cause confusion due to
conflict with similar terms, such as ‘weather bomb’, which are used for entirely different
phenomena.
HARRIS Andrew;
LANFRANCO Massimo;
2018-02-09
WILEY-BLACKWELL
JRC100856
0043-1656,
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wea.2923/abstract,
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC100856,
10.1002/wea.2923,
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