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?

 

[jondear]

It was Drashing! it down earlier here.

 

[Dr. Alkathene]

Mizzling - Misty and drizzling

 

[Hfd Cattle]

Hissing down. Or lashing it down

 

[Hfd Cattle]

Or my late father would say "emping down "

 

[Still Farming]

Persistent moisture recurrences

 

[traineefarmer]

A smur. Heavier than mist, but not quite rain.

 

[JP1]

Suffolk: Hardly anything to speak of

The regular 13 week drought

 

[jerseycowsman]

Bucketting it down

 

[TripleSix]

Sileing it down

Ossing it down

 

[jondear]

Heaving , Belting ,caneing it down

 

[Y Fan Wen]

Persistent moisture recurrences

'It's p p p persisting down outside! Oh, hello vicar.'

 

[Spencer]

Isn’t it that Eskimos have 100 demonstrative pronouns..

 

[Zippy768]

"Its been blo0dy miserable" = rained ALL day

 

[HolzKopf]

unpleasant to work when it's p*ssing down

or stair-rodding it

 

[Farmer Roy]

Precipitation?

My memory is hazy

 

[Christoph1945]

Lashing down!

 

[Christoph1945]

You walk into a place, dripping wet to the soles of your socks and what is the first thing folk ask you? Is it still raining!

 

[Spud]

Here's a few common in these parts

Pi**ing down
Siling down
bouncin down
Drizzling
chucking it down
completely f***ing it down
raining
eshing it down

 

[Mrs Brown]

timman, torrential