> I try to describe in English the differences between the rain of the Midwest (big, cold drops that hit hard) and the Pacific Northwest (rain so light you don

> I try to describe in English the differences between the rain of the Midwest (big, cold drops that hit hard) and the Pacific Northwest (rain so light you don't need a raincoat), and can imagine cultures eventually making up easily-spoken words for common phenomena. We do in Spanish, some of the words used in my country are: Lloviznar: Very light drizzle Pringar: Drizzle Temporal: Rain that lasts for more than a day Llover: Tropical rain Elver (slang): Very strong rain, with dark clouds, strong winds, thunders and lightnings I once had a conversation with a European friend in which we briefly couldn't agree if it was raining or not, due to the difference in what each of us considered rain was. I was like "Look, but that's not even rain" and they said "of course it rains, look".