| Rain Types [message #49003] |
Fr, 27 Mai 2005 01:43 |
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I think we ought to try and compile the complete list of 232 rain types
(or more!). To get us started, here's the types identified in the book:
11 breezy droplets
17 dirty blatter battering against windscreen so hard that
it doesn't matter whether the wipers are on or off
33 light pricking drizzle which makes the roads slippery
39 heavy spotting
47 vertical light drizzle
48 ..
49 ..
50 ..
51 sharply slanting light to moderate drizzle, freshening
87 vertical torrential downpour (a)
88 vertical torrential downpour (b)
100 post-downpour squalling, cold
123 mild cold gusting
124 intermediate cold gusting
126 regular cab-drumming
127 syncopated cab-drumming
192 seastorm
....
213 seastorm
232 bucketing down
--
iain
afda [at] imb.clara.net http://www.zootle.net/afda/
"how can you say that iain is a furyy fpevcg?!" - kristen
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| Re: Rain Types [message #49005 ] |
Fr, 27 Mai 2005 01:48 |
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iain <afda [at] imb.clara.net> wrote in news:Xns966374AB32E1D3DF4614 [at]
195.8.68.222:
> 11 breezy droplets
> 17 dirty blatter battering against windscreen so hard that
> it doesn't matter whether the wipers are on or off
> 33 light pricking drizzle which makes the roads slippery
37 light spotting
38 moderate spotting
> 39 heavy spotting
> 47 vertical light drizzle
> 48 ..
> 49 ..
> 50 ..
> 51 sharply slanting light to moderate drizzle, freshening
> 87 vertical torrential downpour (a)
> 88 vertical torrential downpour (b)
99 pre-downpour squalling, cold
> 100 post-downpour squalling, cold
> 123 mild cold gusting
> 124 intermediate cold gusting
125 strong cold gusting
> 126 regular cab-drumming
> 127 syncopated cab-drumming
128 african log cab-drumming
> 192 seastorm
> ...
> 213 seastorm
> 232 bucketing down
--
iain
afda [at] imb.clara.net http://www.zootle.net/afda/
"how can you say that iain is a furyy fpevcg?!" - kristen
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| Re: Rain Types [message #49008 ] |
Fr, 27 Mai 2005 02:17 |
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iain wrote:
> I think we ought to try and compile the complete list of 232 rain
> types (or more!). To get us started, here's the types identified in
> the book:
>
> 11 breezy droplets
> 17 dirty blatter battering against windscreen so hard that
> it doesn't matter whether the wipers are on or off
> 33 light pricking drizzle which makes the roads slippery
> 39 heavy spotting
> 47 vertical light drizzle
> 48 ..
> 49 ..
> 50 ..
> 51 sharply slanting light to moderate drizzle, freshening
> 87 vertical torrential downpour (a)
> 88 vertical torrential downpour (b)
> 100 post-downpour squalling, cold
> 123 mild cold gusting
> 124 intermediate cold gusting
> 126 regular cab-drumming
> 127 syncopated cab-drumming
> 192 seastorm
> ...
> 213 seastorm
> 232 bucketing down
>
I am reliably informed that it was pissing down in Darlington yesterday.
--
Rob McKenna,
Rain God.
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| Re: Rain Types [message #49016 ] |
Fr, 27 Mai 2005 08:09 |
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On 27/05/2005 11:48 a.m. iain hammered the electrons into submission:
> iain <afda [at] imb.clara.net> wrote in news:Xns966374AB32E1D3DF4614 [at]
> 195.8.68.222:
>> 51 sharply slanting light to moderate drizzle, freshening
59 - New Zealand
60 - Ireland
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| Re: Rain Types [message #49019 ] |
Fr, 27 Mai 2005 08:51 |
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Reason not withstanding the universe continued unabated and Rob
McKenna spoke forth:
>iain wrote:
>
>> I think we ought to try and compile the complete list of 232 rain
>> types (or more!). To get us started, here's the types identified in
>> the book:
>>
>> 11 breezy droplets
>> 17 dirty blatter battering against windscreen so hard that
>> it doesn't matter whether the wipers are on or off
>> 33 light pricking drizzle which makes the roads slippery
>> 39 heavy spotting
>> 47 vertical light drizzle
>> 48 ..
>> 49 ..
>> 50 ..
>> 51 sharply slanting light to moderate drizzle, freshening
>> 87 vertical torrential downpour (a)
>> 88 vertical torrential downpour (b)
>> 100 post-downpour squalling, cold
>> 123 mild cold gusting
>> 124 intermediate cold gusting
>> 126 regular cab-drumming
>> 127 syncopated cab-drumming
>> 192 seastorm
>> ...
>> 213 seastorm
>> 232 bucketing down
>>
>
>I am reliably informed that it was pissing down in Darlington yesterday.
Well,
22 Pissing down
36 Cast and Dogs (whatever that means[43])
[43] don't bother explaining, I know
--
D.
"The Sphynx of the Caverns is the deadliest of all.
It possesses the head of a snake,
the body of a snake
and the feet of a snake."
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| Re: Rain Types [message #49030 ] |
Fr, 27 Mai 2005 17:17 |
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--
"Gusty" <gustywinds [at] btopenworld.com> wrote in message
news:sogd91dq2mng9u3u6ccjgq9katvfc4p9ge [at] 4ax.com...
> Reason not withstanding the universe continued unabated and Rob
> McKenna spoke forth:
>
>>iain wrote:
>>
>>> I think we ought to try and compile the complete list of 232 rain
>>> types (or more!). To get us started, here's the types identified in
>>> the book:
>>>
>>> 11 breezy droplets
>>> 17 dirty blatter battering against windscreen so hard that
>>> it doesn't matter whether the wipers are on or off
>>> 33 light pricking drizzle which makes the roads slippery
>>> 39 heavy spotting
>>> 47 vertical light drizzle
>>> 48 ..
>>> 49 ..
>>> 50 ..
>>> 51 sharply slanting light to moderate drizzle, freshening
>>> 87 vertical torrential downpour (a)
>>> 88 vertical torrential downpour (b)
>>> 100 post-downpour squalling, cold
>>> 123 mild cold gusting
>>> 124 intermediate cold gusting
>>> 126 regular cab-drumming
>>> 127 syncopated cab-drumming
>>> 192 seastorm
>>> ...
>>> 213 seastorm
>>> 232 bucketing down
>>>
>>
>>I am reliably informed that it was pissing down in Darlington yesterday.
>
> Well,
> 22 Pissing down
> 36 Cast and Dogs (whatever that means[43])
>
> [43] don't bother explaining, I know
> --
> D.
>
> "The Sphynx of the Caverns is the deadliest of all.
> It possesses the head of a snake,
> the body of a snake
> and the feet of a snake."
69. continuously cascading curtains of condensation
Adnyl.
"If your life appears dull & boring.............it is"
Derek & Clive
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| Re: Rain Types [message #49040 ] |
Fr, 27 Mai 2005 20:11 |
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"iain" <afda [at] imb.clara.net> wrote in message
news:Xns966374AB32E1D3DF4614 [at] 195.8.68.222...
>I think we ought to try and compile the complete list of 232 rain types
> (or more!).
Here's a scientific term I've never heard of before:
-- Virga: "Rain leaving cloud base and evaporating before hitting the
ground."
Apparently the Bedouins have seven different terms for rain:
-- Rishrash: "Just wets soil surface, no infiltration."
-- Quatre-be'et: "Starts to drip through tent."
-- Swale: "Water fills tiny holes, small rivulets start."
-- Sale: "Small holes filled, water starts to run."
-- Salezein: "Soil is saturated, water runs in small channels."
-- Siam: "Depressions and higher land saturated, sheet flow begins."
-- Fierdan: "Heave sheet flow. Water runs to the sea in wadis. May wash
away animals and small children."
This is from a paper on electric fields associated with the Indian monsoon
season that delineates four kinds of rain:
-- Pre-monsoon: Thunderstorm rain.
-- Monsoon Rain Type I: Tight intermittent rain.
-- Monsoon Rain Type II: Heavy continuous rain.
-- Post-monsoon: Thunderstorm rain.
The BBC says there are only three types of rain:
-- Orographic (or Relief Rain): Water-bearing air rises at a geographic
feature and condenses to rain.
-- Frontal (or Cyclonic): Water-bearing air rises as it encounters a warmer
or colder mass of air and condenses to rain.
-- Convective: Sun evaporates water which condenses and forms rain.
The Australian Weather News says there are 17 different kinds of rain, but
doesn't list them. Bloody Aussies.
Here are four more from some website on things someone thought were nifty:
-- Cloudburst: "Sudden, very heavy rain."
-- Drizzle: "Drops measure less than 2/100 (why not 1/50?) of an inch in
diameter, can be considered light; moderate or heavy."
-- Shower: "Brief rain covering a comparatively small area."
-- Sunshower: "Light rain from an almost cloudless sky."
From a rain photography site that listed four types of rain, but only one
that was original to them:
Drool: "One of the few rains that will drive us indoors. It's the kind
that pours so hard there's no seeing past the end of your lens."
The last site I looked at mentioned Rob McKenna and SLATFATF and the author
said his group had identified nine distinct rain types on a recent trip, but
again failed utterly to list what they were. Then I got bored and stopped.
Chiggy.
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| Re: Rain Types [message #49043 ] |
Fr, 27 Mai 2005 20:39 |
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Gusty wrote:
> Reason not withstanding the universe continued unabated and Rob
> McKenna spoke forth:
>
>
>>iain wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I think we ought to try and compile the complete list of 232 rain
>>>types (or more!). To get us started, here's the types identified in
>>>the book:
>>>
>>> 11 breezy droplets
>>> 17 dirty blatter battering against windscreen so hard that
>>> it doesn't matter whether the wipers are on or off
>>> 33 light pricking drizzle which makes the roads slippery
>>> 39 heavy spotting
>>> 47 vertical light drizzle
>>> 48 ..
>>> 49 ..
>>> 50 ..
>>> 51 sharply slanting light to moderate drizzle, freshening
>>> 87 vertical torrential downpour (a)
>>> 88 vertical torrential downpour (b)
>>>100 post-downpour squalling, cold
>>>123 mild cold gusting
>>>124 intermediate cold gusting
>>>126 regular cab-drumming
>>>127 syncopated cab-drumming
>>>192 seastorm
>>>...
>>>213 seastorm
>>>232 bucketing down
>>>
>>
>>I am reliably informed that it was pissing down in Darlington yesterday.
>
>
> Well,
> 22 Pissing down
> 36 Cast and Dogs (whatever that means[43])
>
> [43] don't bother explaining, I know
Hmm...
58 Sort of vertical rain during sharp winds with the ability to get
under umbrellas
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| Re: Rain Types [message #49047 ] |
Fr, 27 Mai 2005 20:53 |
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iain wrote:
> I think we ought to try and compile the complete list of 232 rain types
> (or more!). To get us started, here's the types identified in the book:
>
> 11 breezy droplets
> 17 dirty blatter battering against windscreen so hard that
> it doesn't matter whether the wipers are on or off
> 33 light pricking drizzle which makes the roads slippery
> 39 heavy spotting
> 47 vertical light drizzle
> 48 ..
> 49 ..
> 50 ..
> 51 sharply slanting light to moderate drizzle, freshening
> 87 vertical torrential downpour (a)
> 88 vertical torrential downpour (b)
> 100 post-downpour squalling, cold
> 123 mild cold gusting
> 124 intermediate cold gusting
> 126 regular cab-drumming
> 127 syncopated cab-drumming
> 192 seastorm
> ...
> 213 seastorm
> 232 bucketing down
>
What is Rain Type 42 ?....
--
www.fixaphoto.co.uk
for photographic restorations
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| Re: Rain Types [message #49053 ] |
Fr, 27 Mai 2005 21:14 |
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On 27/05/2005 19:53, five wild Event Maelstroms swirled in vicious storms of
unreason and Fat Sam spewed up:
<snip>
> What is Rain Type 42 ?....
Rain falling with no hidden meaning, obviously.[42]
--
John Coxon
"First things first - but not necessarily in that order." - Doctor Who.
Email: john[dot]coxon[at]gmail[dot]com
Website: http://alphacentauri.8k.com
Missing footnotes: http://www.nut.house.cx/cgi-bin/nemowiki.pl?ISFN
ZZ9 - the official HHGG appreciation society: http://www.zz9.org/
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| Re: Rain Types [message #49080 ] |
Fr, 27 Mai 2005 21:54 |
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On Fri, 27 May 2005 18:09:15 +1200, Meth <metheglen [at] meths.net> wrote:
>On 27/05/2005 11:48 a.m. iain hammered the electrons into submission:
>> iain <afda [at] imb.clara.net> wrote in news:Xns966374AB32E1D3DF4614 [at]
>> 195.8.68.222:
>
>>> 51 sharply slanting light to moderate drizzle, freshening
>59 - New Zealand
>60 - Ireland
I think those could probably be expanded upon?
New Zealand (North Island)
New Zealand (South Island)
New Zealand (Wellington)
perhaps?
Lloyd
--
"In fact, everything between 'herring' and 'marmalade'
appears to be missing" -- Svlad Cjelli
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| Re: Rain Types [message #49081 ] |
Fr, 27 Mai 2005 22:00 |
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Meth schrieb:
> On 27/05/2005 11:48 a.m. iain hammered the electrons into submission:
>
>> iain <afda [at] imb.clara.net> wrote in news:Xns966374AB32E1D3DF4614 [at]
>> 195.8.68.222:
>
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>>> 51 sharply slanting light to moderate drizzle, freshening
>
> 59 - New Zealand
> 60 - Ireland
Wasn't that "all over England, Scotland and Wales"?
Stefan
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| Re: Rain Types [message #49123 ] |
Sa, 28 Mai 2005 19:43 |
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hammering down..
coming down in stair rods...
"piss"istently raining..
cats and dogs (just stepped into a poodle! Boom Boom!)
Dartmoor drizzle... (soaking mist type rain)
pharm....
--
Drop the dex to reply.
"...The people can always be brought to the bidding of the
leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being
attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and
exposing the country to greater danger "
-- Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little
temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
- Benjamin Franklin, 1759
"iain" <afda [at] imb.clara.net> wrote in message
news:Xns966374AB32E1D3DF4614 [at] 195.8.68.222...
>I think we ought to try and compile the complete list of 232 rain types
> (or more!). To get us started, here's the types identified in the book:
>
> 11 breezy droplets
> 17 dirty blatter battering against windscreen so hard that
> it doesn't matter whether the wipers are on or off
> 33 light pricking drizzle which makes the roads slippery
> 39 heavy spotting
> 47 vertical light drizzle
> 48 ..
> 49 ..
> 50 ..
> 51 sharply slanting light to moderate drizzle, freshening
> 87 vertical torrential downpour (a)
> 88 vertical torrential downpour (b)
> 100 post-downpour squalling, cold
> 123 mild cold gusting
> 124 intermediate cold gusting
> 126 regular cab-drumming
> 127 syncopated cab-drumming
> 192 seastorm
> ...
> 213 seastorm
> 232 bucketing down
>
> --
> iain
>
> afda [at] imb.clara.net http://www.zootle.net/afda/
> "how can you say that iain is a furyy fpevcg?!" - kristen
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| Re: Rain Types [message #49126 ] |
Sa, 28 Mai 2005 22:52 |
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Fri, 27 May 2005 00:43:02 +0100
iain <afda [at] imb.clara.net> schrieb:
>I think we ought to try and compile the complete list of 232 rain types
>(or more!). To get us started, here's the types identified in the book:
[Schnipp]
151 Monnickendam, the water is more hanging in the air than actually
falling.
--
Jan van den Broek balglaas [at] xs4all.nl
I have a great .sig, but it won't fit at the end of this post.
-Fermat
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| Re: Rain Types [message #49149 ] |
Mo, 30 Mai 2005 01:04 |
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[28 May 05: Jan (fortytwo [at] xs4all.nl) wrote something]
>Fri, 27 May 2005 00:43:02 +0100
>iain <afda [at] imb.clara.net> schrieb:
>>I think we ought to try and compile the complete list of 232 rain
>>types (or more!). To get us started, here's the types identified
>>in the book:
>[Schnipp]
>151 Monnickendam, the water is more hanging in the air than
>actually falling.
152 Wet air: one has the precognition of rain that will come in the next
second, but it doesn't
till (the next time)
--
"You cannot own the froup. The froup can own you - if you're lucky."
Nikitta from afda (in the froup with no name)
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| Re: Rain Types [message #51893 ] |
Mi, 01 Juni 2005 21:15 |
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iain <afda [at] imb.clara.net> hit the keyboard.
Afterwards the following was on the screen:
> I think we ought to try and compile the complete list of 232 rain types
> (or more!). To get us started, here's the types identified in the book:
>
> 11 breezy droplets
> 17 dirty blatter battering against windscreen so hard that
> it doesn't matter whether the wipers are on or off
> 33 light pricking drizzle which makes the roads slippery
> 39 heavy spotting
> 47 vertical light drizzle
> 48 ..
> 49 ..
> 50 ..
> 51 sharply slanting light to moderate drizzle, freshening
> 87 vertical torrential downpour (a)
> 88 vertical torrential downpour (b)
> 100 post-downpour squalling, cold
> 123 mild cold gusting
> 124 intermediate cold gusting
> 126 regular cab-drumming
> 127 syncopated cab-drumming
> 192 seastorm
> ...
> 213 seastorm
> 232 bucketing down
I've totally lost track of what numbers has been taken, but...
Puring down in leg-thick columns
Heavy fog drifting down
Light dripping, sunshine, good rainbow chances
/Rasmus
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-- [ Rasmus "Møffe" Bøg Hansen ] ---------------------------------------
It's a shame, but nowadays, I don't think you'll find anyone who doesn't
know about 42 - even if that's *all* they know.
----------------------------------------------[ moffe at zz9 dot dk ] --
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