Deluge. Reserved for those serious downpours where it rains sideways, a ‘deluge’ describes the carnage caused by the rain, tending to result in a severe flood.
What does it mean when the rain is blowing sideways?
It means that the winds are strong and steady enough to blow the rain at a relatively shallow angle to the ground. These are typical of severe thunderstorm formations including downbursts, cumulonimbus “thunderheads” and “squall lines” created by fast-moving fronts.
Are there different types of rain?
Types of Rainfall – Relief, Convectional, and Frontal Rainfall.
How do you say it’s raining in different ways?
raining
- pouring.
- storming.
- flooding.
- precipitating.
- showering.
- spitting.
- drowning.
- raining cats and dogs.
What do British people call rain?
Mizzle, drizzle, dreich and dibble are just some of the many ways we describe rain.
Is horizontal rain possible?
Horizontal precipitation, such as dew, fog and frost, is water vapor that is suspended over the earth’s near-surface [1].
What is a Pluviophile rain?
(neologism) One who loves rain; one who finds joy and peace of mind during rainy days. (biology) An organism that thrives in a rainy environment.
What is the rarest type of rain?
ice crystals
Arguably the rarest type of precipitation on our list, ice crystals are a meteorological phenomenon that you’ll only see in very cold climates.
What are the 3 main kinds of rain *?
Types of Rainfall
- Convectional rainfall.
- Orographic or relief rainfall.
- Cyclonic or frontal rainfall.
What is stratiform rain?
Stratiform precipitation, in general, is relatively continuous and uniform in intensity (i.e., steady rain versus rain showers). Stratiform Rings and Bands. These occur between the active convective bands of a hurricane outside of the eye wall.
How would you describe heavy rain in creative writing?
The sky was tar-black and the large clouds were moving towards me. I heard a tapping on the window and then it became a pitter-patter. People ran for cover outside and umbrellas were opened as the clouds spat out their beads of water. Puddles began plinking as the rainfall became heavier.
What do you call a rain that is not heavy?
Drizzle is light rain falling in fine drops. The drizzle had now stopped and the sun was breaking through. Synonyms: fine rain, spray, Scotch mist, mizzle More Synonyms of drizzle.
What can I say instead of heavy rain?
synonyms for heavy rainfall
- deluge.
- torrent.
- freshet.
- wall of water.
- waterflood.
What is rain in Scottish?
Yillen (a shower of rain, especially with wind), uplowsin (heaving rain), smirr (a fine rain drizzle), and goselet (a soaking, drenching, downpour).
What is iced rain called?
Sleet
Sleet (Ice Pellets) are frozen raindrops that strike the earth’s surface. In a sleet situation the precipitation aloft when it is first generated will be snow. The snow falls through a layer that is a little above freezing and the snow partially melts.
What do they call a shower in England?
And there is also a small sink in the loo, so we can brush our teeth there if we want. Footnote: Take a bath is American English. In British English we have a bath / shower.
Can it rain on one side?
A rain shadow is a patch of land that has been forced to become a desert because mountain ranges blocked all plant-growing, rainy weather. On one side of the mountain, wet weather systems drop rain and snow. On the other side of the mountain—the rain shadow side—all that precipitation is blocked.
Is blood rain possible?
Proper blood rain, where the rain actually appears red, is relatively rare because you’d need red dust/particles in fairly high concentrations in the rain. Documented cases are few and far between.
What type of person loves rain?
a lover of rain;someone who finds joy and peace of mind during rainy days.
What is super light rain called?
Drizzle is light rain falling in fine drops. The drizzle had now stopped and the sun was breaking through. Synonyms: fine rain, spray, Scotch mist, mizzle More Synonyms of drizzle.
What is the smell of rain called?
petrichor
That smell—known as petrichor—stems from microscopic streptomycete bacteria in the soil that produce a compound called geosmin, The Times reports.