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Firenze
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ken - what part of 'this is a tangent' do you not understand?
If you want - any of you - to discuss the Inuit, bloody well start a thread on it.
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Chorister
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Meanwhile, returning you to where it's teeming down....
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Nicolemr
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Did someone say "spitting"? How about "misting"?
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WhateverTheySay
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Normal weather.
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Chorister
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plutting (I think a variant of the French word for raining)
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jedijudy
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quote: Originally posted by Deputy Verger: In South Africa, when it rains while the sun is shining they call it a Monkey's Wedding.
We've always called it the devil beating his wife! Love those sunshowers!
Saturday I drove through a torrential downpour. Could only see about ten feet in front of my car. I needed one of you to give me a better word for that dousing I got.
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Lynn MagdalenCollege
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quote: Originally posted by EtymologicalEvangelical: Rain is sadly known as bad weather in my neck of the woods. I say "sadly", because when I was in Uganda some years ago and I and my Ugandan friends were caught in a torrential downpour, I was told that this was good weather (admittedly we were in the car at the time).
Ever since that time I have tried not to call rain "bad weather" (except in times of flooding, of course). "Never curse the rain" is my little bit of superstition now.
The Rabbis in Jerusalem ask God not to listen to the prayers of the tourists...! Because, of course, tourists want "good weather", meaning dry and sunny, but Israel relies on rainfall, therefore - please don't listen to the weather-prayers of tourists!
Growing up in Los Angeles, sufficiently distant from natural sources of water that I never thought about where the water pouring out of my faucet came from, I heard the scripture, "He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust," and didn't realize rain is one of God's great passive blessings and not some punishment He sent that sloughed off onto the good guys, too.
All that to say - what about "spitting," or has it already been mentioned? I've heard it in person and also read it in books and it describes a very specific kind of rainfall.
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Banner Lady
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After 10 years of drought, (which broke two years ago), rain is very definitely considered a blessing around here.
And that scripture just posted always reminds me of a former shipmate saying:
The rain, it falls on the just and unjust fella; But more on the just I fear Coz the unjust pinched the just's umbrella
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Chorister
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God's having a shower. Or even God's crying.
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LeRoc
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In Dutch, when it's pouring we say something that literally translates as "It's raining pipe stems." I never understood where they got that from.
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Angloid
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quote: Originally posted by LeRoc: In Dutch, when it's pouring we say something that literally translates as "It's raining pipe stems." I never understood where they got that from.
Whereas in (francophone) Belgium it must have been raining pipe-smokers.
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LeRoc
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quote: Angloid: Whereas in (francophone) Belgium it must have been raining pipe-smokers.
Nice one!
I found this site, listing the equivalent of 'It's raining cats and dogs' in different languages. I found that the Scandinavians are especially creative. The Norwegians have 'It's raining female trolls' and the Danish 'It's raining shoemakers' apprentices' ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Angloid
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Possibly significant that English appears to have most variations. Though cats and dogs type rain is comparatively rare here... drizzle and its variations are much more common.
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Sir Kevin
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Excessive heat is what they called "bad weather" where our daughter lived. Elsewhere, often when I am on the job, it's called pissing down.
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Firenze
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'dreich' includes rain, but it is so much more (cold, wet, throw-yourself-under-a-bus miserable). Enough of it can render you droukit.
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Lynn MagdalenCollege
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LeRoc and Angloid, do you think "raining pipe-smokers" was an advance upon "raining pipe-stems"? You know, one of those dueling "see you and raise you" descriptive battles?
"Misting", sometimes, when it's not really falling-- when you're inside the cloud (either because you're up in the mountains or because the cloud cover has just dropped a whole lot! I guess it would be like "fog with teeth"...
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WhateverTheySay
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quote: Originally posted by Chorister: God's having a shower. Or even God's crying.
I used 'God's having a shower' a lot when I was in high school. The other that comes to mind is 'God is on the toilet'.
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Banner Lady
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And the angels are watering God's garden (the Earth).
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Zacchaeus
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quote: Originally posted by Lynn MagdalenCollege: LeRoc and Angloid, do you think "raining pipe-smokers" was an advance upon "raining pipe-stems"? You know, one of those dueling "see you and raise you" descriptive battles?
I have come across raining stair rods.. And raining cats and dogs is very common in my part of middle england.
Also chucking it down, and the heavens opened for a sudden downpour.
I have heard on the weather forcast, and it has always got my imagination wondering, 'organised rain' - what is disorganised rain then?
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Beethoven
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Disorganised rain? That must be what we have here this morning when it's not quite sure if it's actually raining, or if the moisture's just supposed to be hanging around in the air. Every so often there are a few drops, but mostly it's just grey and misty.
(No idea if that's what the Met Office have in mind, but it works for me! )
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LeRoc
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quote: Lynn MagdalenCollege: LeRoc and Angloid, do you think "raining pipe-smokers" was an advance upon "raining pipe-stems"? You know, one of those dueling "see you and raise you" descriptive battles?
That would be fun, but I'm afraid the raining men on the Golconde painting aren't actually smoking pipes.
BTW, it's lovely weather here in Mozambique today! ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Angloid
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quote: Originally posted by LeRoc: I'm afraid the raining men on the Golconde painting aren't actually smoking pipes.
No, but they are the sort that would be if they weren't preoccupied with making an upright landing.
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LeRoc
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quote: Angloid: No, but they are the sort that would be if they weren't preoccupied with making an upright landing.
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Moo
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quote: Originally posted by Beethoven: Disorganised rain? That must be what we have here this morning when it's not quite sure if it's actually raining, or if the moisture's just supposed to be hanging around in the air. Every so often there are a few drops, but mostly it's just grey and misty.
I had never encountered that kind of rain until I moved to Belfast.
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Aelred of Riveaux
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quote: Originally posted by Smudgie: I designate a certain type of precipitation as "wet rain" - you know, the sort which has you miserable and soaked to the skin within seconds without really looking as though it's raining properly at all.
I thought that was a family expression, nice to see someone else using it too. My Granny always referred to it as 'that wet rain' with emphasis on 'that'.
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Chorister
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Holiday rain, you know the sort - that starts the second you get in the car to drive off, travels with you and continues throughout the whole time you are away. Just as you are packing up to go home and can stay no longer, the sun comes out and a heatwave begins. But only in the place you leave behind - the rain follows you home.
Come on down to sunny Devon Where it do rain 6 days in 7
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Ariel
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quote: Originally posted by LeRoc: I found this site, listing the equivalent of 'It's raining cats and dogs' in different languages. I found that the Scandinavians are especially creative. The Norwegians have 'It's raining female trolls' and the Danish 'It's raining shoemakers' apprentices'
"Tractors are falling." Yikes.
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balaam
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Rain, not necessarily heavy, but with enough black clouds to make visibility poor is called "mucky weather." A bit like this afternoon.
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Gracious rebel
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I was told today by someone at work who comes from a Russian speaking country somewhere like Kazakhstan (I am not entirely sure which country) that back home they would call the sort of rain we had this afternoon 'mushroom rain' (in the local language)- this is a brief but heavy shower on a sunny humid day, when the sun continues to shine through the shower. The sort of weather that encourages mushrooms to grow I suppose. This seems to be corroborated here
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Jengie jon
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I distinguish here between Manchester and Sheffield rain. Firstly over a ten minute walk both will get you soaking wet, but Manchester rain is finer and more persistent. Sheffield rain is so heavy we get floods running down hill despite perfectly adequate drains (the water will vanish within seconds of the storm finishing but it can still be an inch deep on a marked slope. The other thing is soaking is just about instance, Sheffield rain really does bucketting down, if you go out of it, it is instantly as if you have had a bucket of water tipped over you.
Unfortunately the present lot is definitely a present from Manchester.
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