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You've probably heard most of these weather-related expressions at some point: "It's raining cats and dogs," "on cloud nine" or "right as rain." While most people know what these expressions are ...
(the rain) is hitting us like they hit an octopus: llueven sapos y culebras: raining toads and snakes Spanish (Argentina) caen soretes de punta: pointing down turds are falling Spanish (Colombia) estan lloviendo maridos: raining husbands Spanish (Venezuela) está cayendo un palo de agua: a stick of water is falling Swedish: det regnar smådjävlar
The climate and landscape are determined by the Atlantic Ocean winds whose moisture gets trapped by the mountains circumventing the Spanish Atlantic coast. Because of the Foehn effect, the southern slopes fall inside the rain shadow zone and so Green Spain contrasts starkly with the rest of Spain. The rainfall is generally abundant, exceeding ...
A sunshower is usually a result of winds associated with a rain storm sometimes miles away, blowing the airborne raindrops into an area where there are no clouds. Sometimes a sunshower is created when a single rain shower cloud passes overhead, and the Sun's angle keeps the sunlight from being obstructed by overhead clouds.
Precipitation is measured using a rain gauge, and more recently remote sensing techniques such as a weather radar. When classified according to the rate of precipitation, rain can be divided into categories. Light rain describes rainfall which falls at a rate of between a trace and 2.5 millimetres (0.098 in) per hour. Moderate rain describes ...
The wet season (sometimes called the rainy season or monsoon season) is the time of year when most of a region's average annual rainfall occurs. [1] Generally, the season lasts at least one month. [ 2 ]
A disgraced CIA officer who drugged and sexually abused “numerous women in multiple countries” over 14 years and was found with over 500 disturbing images and videos of his victims was ...
It was pouring with rain. ( British English ) In some other languages (necessarily null subject languages and typically pro-drop languages ), such as Portuguese , Spanish , Occitan , Catalan , Italian , Romanian , in Hungarian and all the Slavic languages , an impersonal verb takes no subject at all, but it is conjugated in the third-person ...