I had a conversation with a customer recently about Eskimos having over 50 different words for snow. Apparently this is however just a urban legend. But it got me thinking, since we are so bogged down in the wet stuff here, just how many different words we use for rain. When you live on the wet coast, I mean the West Coast, you learn to deal with rain, because there are few weeks in the year that we don't participate in ducking and covering. Those few weeks are called Summer. They are short and sweet, humid, and hot.
The phrases that we use to describe rain are creative. At least you don't have to shovel it. Liquid Sunshine April Showers Periods of Rain Another wet one No end in sight Never Ending It's Raining Cats and Dogs
We also have very descriptive words for the wet stuff, such as: Monsoon, damp, cold, drenching, soaking, sopping, slick, precipitation, glistening, showers, droplets, drizzle, spitting. Most of these come from our daily weather reports on the evening news. And I am sure that you can come up with some zingers of your own. Be creative, unless of course you are waterlogged.