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[-] JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 62 points 1 year ago

I just call it raining. There doesn’t need to be a certain term for everything ever, we’re not German lol

[-] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 44 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] AwwTopsy@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago
[-] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 year ago

Nachtregen, Abendschauer, geht alles!

[-] Sooperstition@lemmy.one 9 points 1 year ago

Wenn ist das Nunstück git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!

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[-] wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago

Ah, a glimpse into the German agenda!

[-] snor10@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

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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[-] Halosheep@lemm.ee 53 points 1 year ago

This would be a lot funnier if there were enough pixels to differentiate the colors in the legend...

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Sorry, it's moldy

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[-] teft@startrek.website 39 points 1 year ago
[-] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

To a women no less

[-] jkmooney@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

"His wife" could be a....let's say, "euphemism" for something else. In which case, that ain't rainwater falling.....

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[-] contextual_somebody@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

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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[-] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago

Devil beating his wife sounds deep south as fuck...

[-] Limeey@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

This is a terrific example of where a choropleth (Ideally by county) would have been much more effective than a heat map.

[-] Ubermeisters@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 year ago

Fuck yeah let's convert some sunlight to .. oh you said.. nevermind

[-] lolgcat@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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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[-] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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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[-] febra@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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/

[-] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

That's interesting... because those green areas are all old French settlements.

[-] ivanafterall@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago

I believe it's a Golden Shower

[-] bauhaus@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

no, that’s just a golf resort in South Florida and one hotel room in Moscow.

[-] janAkali@lemmy.one 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] radix@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

I like this a lot. It's cute-sounding and has a history.

[-] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

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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[-] Sabre363@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago

What is this "rain" you speak of.

[-] robocall@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Hello southwest

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[-] linuxgator@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

I'm Florida we call it 4pm.

[-] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 8 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Roundcat@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

Meanwhile, me and my siblings: "It's raining sunshine!"

[-] Caketaco@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago

Verizon coverage map links up with this data. Coincidence??

[-] Crapattf2@feddit.uk 7 points 1 year ago

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

[-] glibg10b@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago
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[-] Psythik@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

This map is inaccurate. I'm from Arizona and "sunshower" is commonly used here.

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[-] Genrawir@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

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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[-] Squander@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] Donjuanme@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I guess Hawaiian sunshine is just a thing my family uses...

[-] SharpMaxwell@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

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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[-] ItsMyFirstDay@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago
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[-] skunk@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

I’ve always called it liquid sunshine

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[-] ox0r@jlai.lu 4 points 1 year ago

Where I'm from we say it is 'carnival in hell'

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