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What is the proper word for the phenomenon of rain falling from a clear sky? It's driving me crazy!

ETA: Now solved, and I feel both sane and serene as I sing in the serein.

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Date: 2011-05-08 08:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dorianegray.livejournal.com
A quick Google has turned up this page, which reckons the word you want is "serein".

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Date: 2011-05-08 08:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] steepholm.livejournal.com
Thank you! That is indeed the word for which I was desperately groping.

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Date: 2011-05-08 09:03 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] ashkitty.livejournal.com
Serein. Or as we call it back home, 'weather.'

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Date: 2011-05-08 09:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nixwilliams.livejournal.com
a sprinkler.

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Date: 2011-05-08 11:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] drasecretcampus.livejournal.com
I also saw it referred to as a "sun shower", and people pointing out it doesn't happen, or if it does, it isn't rain...

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Date: 2011-05-09 11:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] steepholm.livejournal.com
or if it does, it isn't rain...

That sounds quite sinister!

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Date: 2011-05-09 12:35 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nineweaving.livejournal.com
Gorgeous word! Now, what do you call a sunlit thunderstorm?

Nine

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Date: 2011-05-09 07:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cmcmck.livejournal.com
Well, I now know that a thunderstorm in heavy snow is known by the rather splendid term 'thunderblizzard' as I experienced one for the first time here in the UK in the winter before last and Canadian friends came to my rescue with the term, but as to your question, I have to admit I don't know and would also like to! :o)

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Date: 2011-05-09 03:01 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] heleninwales.livejournal.com
Ooooh! Thunderblizzard. I like that. I have occasionally experienced them, but didn't know someone had given a name to the phenomenon.

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Date: 2011-05-09 08:47 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] sheenaghpugh
Well, if you've got the washing out, the proper phrase is "a right pain in the arse"...

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