Rain or Showers?

tonesp
tonesp Member Posts: 844
edited 21. Feb 2011, 05:53 in Community Chit-chat archive
Some wise owl here will know the answer to this.When does rain cease to be a shower and become officially rain.Is there a set time when the changeover occurs.Waiting with bated breath :?: :?: :?:

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  • elnafinn
    elnafinn Member Posts: 7,412
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    A shower is a light sprinkle of rain. Rain is an all out downpour.....

    Elna x
    The happiest people don't have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything.

    If you can lay down at night knowing in your heart that you made someone's day just a little bit better, you know you had a good day.
  • joanlawson
    joanlawson Member Posts: 8,681
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    There isn't a set time; the changeover comes when you discover that you need your umbrella, but it didn't look like rain when you left the house so you didn't bring it with you.

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    Anyway, the rain in Spain stays mainly on the plain, doesn't it :?: :lol:
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  • skezier
    skezier Member Posts: 11,333
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi Tone,

    Nowadays i have to ask what is a shower... we have done months and months of rain and really heavy rain and well a shower might be welcome just now :wink:

    Mind..... we have green fields :lol: Will trade you a bit of decent grass for some sun....

    Hope your doing ok? Cris x
  • frogmorton
    frogmorton Member Posts: 30,087
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    I like the umbrella criteria....

    how about this......

    when you have to fetch the washing in??

    Love

    toni xx
  • dreamdaisy
    dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    A shower is brief. Rain is continuous. DD
    Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben
  • tonesp
    tonesp Member Posts: 844
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    We rally do love rain here It only rains about 10 days a year so when it does it saves us a fortune in irrigation.
  • dreamdaisy
    dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Whereas for us ten days without rain is considered a result! I do miss the green-ness of the UK tho, when we do go somewhere hot. DD
    Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben
  • robertls
    robertls Member Posts: 2,304
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    I used to work the dogs, on a shoot run by one of the top London Gunmakers........Just north of Stranraer....

    To the north you could see Alisa Graig........Thats a rock sticking out of the sea......

    We used to tell the American visitors, you could tell the weather by it.....

    If you could see it, it was going to rain......

    If you couldn't see it...................It was already raining......

    Usually took several minutes for it to sink in.........sometimes even days........

    I used to clamber up those rock faces with Dill and enjoy every minute......
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