I'm surprised the brits doesn't have 10 words for rain, like the inuits for snow.
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basically the oil used in mayo is replaced by butter - that makes the main difference.
hm, increased humidity, drizzle, shower, shower or two, rainy, rain, heavy rain, downpour, stormy, severe storm - does it do it?
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I think there are more - gosh, goddammit and holy crap come to mind...
Yeah, maybe, that's just what I picked up from daily weather reports. And there are several categories for wind as well, which describe from which side the rain will hit you. But that might be a tasmanian thing, as we are in the roaring 40s area.
The scots have quite a lot names for rain: dreich, drookit, smirr, pish-oot (when it's really pishing doon, this ones for the Behave Bot), drizzle. And there's more: https://jackelliot.over-blog.com/2017/03/scottish-words-for-rain.html
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You missed 'spitting'
The best rain i ever witnessed was in Chicago.
They called it a light trickle. Every 5 min the wind changed its direction so staying dry was impossible and in Germany we would have called that a severe storm...
We just say "What ? Again ? Every sunday, I swear !".
When the rain hits me directly in the face I know that I am at the North Sea.
It's a bit wet out.
Cats and dogs.
Torrential innit?
Spitting.
P155ing it down.
Now that's proper rain.
Sideways rain.
Guess I won't be needing a shower today.
Is it raining out? (to the person standing dripping wet).
Might need my brolly today.
Cats and dogs.
Torrential innit?
Spitting.
P155ing it down.
Now that's proper rain.
Sideways rain.
Guess I won't be needing a shower today.
Is it raining out? (to the person standing dripping wet).
Might need my brolly today.
Yeah what you call rain in Germany is increased humidity or drizzle in England - they love understatements. You won't open the brolly for that.
oh yes, I missed it's raining cats and dogs - blimey.
Once again proving the cruelty of Brits, who likes to drop poor creature from the sky during rain. We, civilized French, say it's raining ropes. Which is much less cruel, and also more accurate.
When I was in Scotland a few years ago (only for three days) I was really disappointed that there was not much rain.
So, I was driving home, and there was so many people everywhere, sitting in beer gardens, but what struck me was how quiet it was.
And I almost drive some guy over because he just entered the road on red light, walking indifferent to his surroundings like a zombie with some distant, strange 1000 yard stare.
It took me some time to remind myself what was supposed to happen today.
And I almost drive some guy over because he just entered the road on red light, walking indifferent to his surroundings like a zombie with some distant, strange 1000 yard stare.
It took me some time to remind myself what was supposed to happen today.
In bavaria there is a similar expression "Schnürlregen"- Schnürl is slang for string or cord - so quite similar.
We have words for loads of different types of rain mate, we are very well versed in identifying which species of rain is falling...!