I just call it raining. There doesn’t need to be a certain term for everything ever, we’re not German lol
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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.
Doch, dh ja Sonnenregen!
Nachtregen, Abendschauer, geht alles!
Wenn ist das Nunstück git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!
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July 1.--In the hospital yesterday, a word of thirteen syllables was successfully removed from a patient--a North German from near Hamburg
-- Mark Twain
Ah, a glimpse into the German agenda!
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.
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This would be a lot funnier if there were enough pixels to differentiate the colors in the legend...
Sorry, it's moldy
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The devil is married?
To a women no less
"His wife" could be a....let's say, "euphemism" for something else. In which case, that ain't rainwater falling.....
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I’m from the Deep South. You couldn’t tell by my accent. I moved away for college and lived overseas and on both coasts. I didn’t know what a “sun shower” was until I was in my mid/late twenties and said “the devil is beating his wife” in front of my friends. That’s the only term for it I had ever heard up to that point.
damn. i was like 55% certain that this was a shitpost and no one actually said that until i read your comment. we almost got a shitpost on c/shitpost. maybe it's not too late to get a meme on c/meme
Are you me? This is very similar to my story regarding this phrase. I have just heard the phrase associated with the situation. Not that rain falling while the sun is out is CALLED the devil is beating his wife. Rather, it's just the indicator somehow.
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Devil beating his wife sounds deep south as fuck...
This is a terrific example of where a choropleth (Ideally by county) would have been much more effective than a heat map.
Fuck yeah let's convert some sunlight to .. oh you said.. nevermind
It's worth noting that the Times released this tool a decade ago. IIRC, around 2015 there was also a push for better colorblind friendly color palettes, especially on the heat map space (I remember watching a matplotlib demo, maybe, with viridis support). While there's many visualization practices we do better at now, and while this could be due for a redux, I still think it"s one of the best interactives to date. It's an OG for sure.
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Funny, but we use the same thing about the Devil beating his wife in Romania as well. At least in Transylvania we do. It's surprising to see this being used in the US as well. I wonder where it originated from.
Apparently the first time this was used was in France 1703. More info here: https://www.theidioms.com/the-devil-is-beating-his-wife/
That's interesting... because those green areas are all old French settlements.
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.
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I believe it's a Golden Shower
no, that’s just a golf resort in South Florida and one hotel room in Moscow.
In russian we have a phrase "грибной дождь" (mushroom rain) for light warm rain in the sunshine.
It's the best weather for mushroom growth and is therefore a sign to go harvest them in the woods soon.
I like this a lot. It's cute-sounding and has a history.
What is this "rain" you speak of.
Hello southwest
Grew up in Georgia. My mom would refer to it as the devil beating his wife. She got it from her mom who presumably got it from her parents. I have no idea why that expression, never got an answer for that.
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I'm Florida we call it 4pm.
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
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Professor: And Josh what is your thesis about?
Josh: Urrmmmm ahh umm What do you call it when rain falls while the sun is shining?
Professor: Josh youre studying statistics.
Josh: Yeah, naw Im going to graph it.
Meanwhile, me and my siblings: "It's raining sunshine!"
This map is inaccurate. I'm from Arizona and "sunshower" is commonly used here.
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Verizon coverage map links up with this data. Coincidence??
In the UK , well the part of the UK I live in we say "it's a monkey's birthday"
Well more actually most of the time we don't say anything about it all
I guess Hawaiian sunshine is just a thing my family uses...
green, I dont live anywhere near that area tho, i just remember someone talking about it online when i was young and it stuck with me
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