I just call it raining. There doesn’t need to be a certain term for everything ever, we’re not German lol
Am german. We do not have a word for this either. It’s just raining.
Of course you can always make one up due to how our language works, but that’s just to dumbfound Americans online.
It’s funny how german always caught this flack online when the nordic languages are the exact same, we concatenate words on the fly all the time.
Solskensregn in this case, sunshine rain.
This would be a lot funnier if there were enough pixels to differentiate the colors in the legend…
Sorry, it’s moldy
The devil one is green, I think the Bible Belt is just barely tinged green.
The devil is married?
Devil beating his wife sounds deep south as fuck…
I grew up in the CA bay area and always called them sunshowers. I didn’t make that up: I called them sunshowers when I was a kid because the people around me called them sunshowers.
As an aside, I also taught linguistics at the university level for about 10 years. I do question the accuracy of many of Katz’s charts because they very often do not match people’s expectations, and beyond the level of “you expected this because you didn’t know any better”. I would take them with a grain of salt. That’s not really a dig on Katz, either: difficult to study anything at this scale.
I’ve mostly heard some variation on sunshower in Texas because while they’re not common, they’re not super rare either. We also rarely get “sun-derstorms” (dunno what else to call it) in Texas.
Apparently I’m from an area that uses sunshower, but I’ve always heard it called the devil beating his wife
We’ve always called them sunshowers, but according to the map we’re in an area that has no name for it.
I’ve never heard any word or phrase for this, but sunshower just seems intuitive to me
I’m Florida we call it 4pm.
Wait, others don’t say the devil is beating his wife?
Right? I’m in the great lakes region and that’s what I’ve always called it.
Backwoods Virginian and that’s what we called it.
I’m on the Ontario side of the Great Lakes and never heard this term. Sunshowers for us here.
It’s a sunshower (also, hoagie and pork roll).
it is the birth of rainbows
So it’s from the French who took it from a poem about Greek gods. So the Christians stole from the pagans yet again lol.
From Northeastern PA, and yeah I immediately thought “oh, a sunshower?”
But yeah, the devil doesn’t have a wife wtf
What is the “other” here?
