100 Words For Precipitation

[teslacoils]

It's often falsely claimed that an Eskimo has 100 words for snow.

But does English have 100 words for rain or general precipitation?

Please add your words for wet weather, and explain what degree of raining it is. For example does heaving it down mean more rain than pouring down? Would you go out and feed the cats if it were chumming it down, or forget it if it were like stair-rods?

 

[Two Tone]

Noah’s rain.
As they say in East Anglia “Ass loike one on’em rains wot Noah hed. At oon’t stop!”

 

[Jackov Altraids]

Mizling

Mist that is nearly thick enough to be drizzle

 

[PSQ]

'Dreich'. Not 'rain' as such, but a damp grey shitty day. (Scotland, Northern England, NI)

 

[teslacoils]

Mizling

Mist that is nearly thick enough to be drizzle

Mizzle for me is the combination of mist and drizzle. Add in a dark and dank morning and you have the epitomy of British weather.

@admin could you merge my double thread please?

 

[Chickcatcher]

I know its 4 words how about, Raining Cats and Dogs

 

[jondear]

Mizzle for me is the combination of mist and drizzle. Add in a dark and dank morning and you have the epitomy of British weather.

@admin could you merge my double thread please?

Argh! I thought I had replied but couldn't see it !

 

[Lincs Lass]

When its heavy its Stair rods

 

[le bon paysan]

Translated from French....its raining like a cow pissing!

 

[teslacoils]

Belting it down, more serious than
Heaving it down, more serious than
Chucking it down, more serious than
Throwing it down.

But where does siling it down or slinging it down go?

And why when it stops does it Peter out? Who was Peter?

 

[Wombat]

How about just plain “rubbish”

 

[teslacoils]

How about just plain “rubbish”

Play the game. Adjectives and adverbs less cool than nouns and verbs.

 

[Gong Farmer]

'Hosing it down' is quite descriptive and quantitative.

 

[Gong Farmer]

Oh, and 'pissistently raining'

 

[PSQ]

Robbed from The Scotsman paper. The first six are fairly common in this corner of the country, the last 3 I've never heard.


Fret - Is a cold and wet mist that has travelled in from the sea.

Dreich - Wet, dull, gloomy, dismal, dreary or any combination of these. Scottish weather at its most miserable.

The “ch” is pronounced as in Scots loch or German ach.

Drookit - extremely wet / absolutely drenched.

Stoating - When it rains so heavily that the drops of rain bounce off the ground.

Haar - Is a mist coming in from the East.

Smirr - Fine rain or drizzle.

Mochie - Warm and moist weather. A feeling of being clammy.

Plowetery - Messy, dirty wet and showery.

Oorlich - Damp, chilly and utterly unpleasant.
For example - Oorlich shoo’ers ‘o drift an’ hail.