I complain fairly often about -25C and colder temps here, but as I get ready to head to Vancouver and Victoria (where I lived for years), I am reminded of how many different ways Weather Canada can say "rain."
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@sundogplanets "showers" in a West Coast context means "something between rain and wet fog, but all day".
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@sundogplanets very reminiscent of Monty Python's "spam, spam, spam and eggs..." bit.
@sundogplanets there is also the (fictional) lorry driver Rob McKenna (from So Long and Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas Adams). Curiously enough, there is a nice Stack Overflow answer about him: https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/286979/lorry-or-truck-driver-he-has-been-rained-on-his-entire-life-he-is-unaware-he-i
@sundogplanets Come to Australia, where we added a whole level to our fire danger signs because "extreme" wasn't conveying the seriousness of the situation. We go up to "catastrophic" now!
The BoM has lots of words for "fine": sunny, mostly sunny, clear, mostly clear, scattered cloud. But the fun ones are "scattered showers, 42℃" next week.
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@sundogplanets One of my absolute formative memories as a kid was CBC news doing a "Christmas Across Canada" with a little segment in every province or territory, all snowy, until they got to BC and it was a guy golfing in Victoria.
@sundogplanets my favorite term from living in Washington State was "sun breaks" as a way to describe the inverse of cloudy with occasional showers.
