100 Words For Precipitation

Y Fan Wen

Member
Location
N W Snowdonia
Raining cats and dogs

Means torrential downpour but not sure where this sprang from?

I have also heard "Scotch Mist" which is basically very wet low cloud I think.
A popular saying in Welsh is 'Bwrw hen wragedd a ffyn.' which literally means raining old wives and sticks. I suspect that it has mutated from 'wrachedd' which means witches. The 'ffyn' is probably the broomstick.
 

7610 super q

Never Forgotten
Honorary Member
Within the bounds of Crapweathershire, it rained like a bitch......

This is why I find these drought threads so annoying. You can buy your why out of a drought with irrigation equipment and Facebook fodder....
What the f**k can you do about endless rain day after day. Except move maybe....
 

Gong Farmer

Member
BASIS
Location
S E Glos
Raining cats and dogs

Means torrential downpour but not sure where this sprang from?

I have also heard "Scotch Mist" which is basically very wet low cloud I think.
Story goes that the family pets used to sleep, or spend time on, the thatched roof which was soft, and warm from the hearth and chimney. When it rained heavily the thatch got slippy and they all slid off, falling to the ground. So raining heavily enough to wash the cats and dogs off the roof.
 

DrWazzock

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
Stages of rainfall in North Lincolnshire:
Mizzley
Slattery
Lapething it down
Dackering off

Dackering in this part of Lincolnshire would be used to describe an engine or such like that it dying away, stalling or mis firing. " It's dackering again. There must be muck in the fuel. " I like it as a word as its quite apt.

"Kebbing" is used to describe an animal that is dackering or breathing heavily because he is exhausted or too fat. "My mate slaughtered his turkey a bit before Christmas because it had but on so much weight it was kebbing a bit."

Heavy rain here would be "siling down" amongst the locals.

"Teeming it down" is very heavy rain. Same word used to mean unloading. "He is teeming the bales." That might have come from Scotland though.

Kelching is probably the heaviest rain. "We had a right kelching just before teatime."

If our farm from suffering from drought my uncle would usually ring up to say "it was running out the gate holes" where he was.
 

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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