maandag 9 juli 2007
Rain
You know they say the eskimos have 50 words for snow, it occured to me yesterday english should have more words for rain after all we get enough of it and there are very different types. As far as I know we pretty much have "rain" and "drizzel". But we actually get all sorts of conditions, in the west country we get horizontal rain, you sometimes get that rain that seems to avoid all obsticals just to drip down your neck, I always rather liked the hollywood type rain lots of really fat rain drops falls briefly then the sun comes out.If anyone can think of new words (or old ones I am unfamiliar with) for the types of rain we get let me know, might try and work them into everyday usage:)
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Ummm... precipitation; deluge; splatter; mist; sleet?
If you want to be all technical and meteorological, there's the terms stratiform and convective.Stratiform rain is generally light with small rain drops that last for hours and hours (if not days!) It's more common in the winter months.Convective rain is the sort that you call the Hollywood type - it hammers it down with big fat raindrops for not very long, and then finishes quickly. Most often seen during the summer and early autumn.There's also virga, which is light rain with small raindrops that falls from the clouds, but evaporates before hitting the ground.(nice to see that my time spent studying rain wasn't entirely wasted!)
cool new words! I thought there should be some out there.time not wasted in the slightest
Pour, downpour, a shower, it's raining cats and dogs, heavy rain.
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