I just now walked outside to get something from the shed, it's all nice and sunny and shit, clear blue sky all around except for a cloud bank out by Red Boiling Springs about 10-12 miles from here, and I got fucking rained on. A light spattering, but rain.
I'm not kidding.
Growing up I was told one of two things about rain from a clear sky depending on which part of the family was around at the time. One was that it was a Fox's wedding, the other was that it was a sign that the Devil was beating his wife.
ReplyDeleteNever heard the Fox's wedding, but did hear about the "Devil" part.
DeleteJapanese. Sun showers celebrating a kitsune wedding
Deleteyea, it was nice and sunny here too, Pa highlands and 20 minutes later a damn downpour.
ReplyDeletealso love the local weather station when they say we got only 1/4 inch of rain when there is 2 inches standing in a bucket out side out back.
Same thing here. I can leave here and it's dry, yet when I get to town 5 miles down the road, the town square is flooded again.
Deletetown is a little farther away for me. and the nearest city is 45 minutes downhill at 60 plus. and about a thousand feet below..
DeleteLess than 2 hours ago there was a thunder clap directly above so sharp, so very loud I'd be surprised it didn't crack windows.
ReplyDeleteThen the winds came, over 50 kt gusts. Then the heavy rain, blowing sideways. Forty minutes later glorious sunshine.
Typical Tennessee weather.
ReplyDeleteIn Oregon they call it liquid sunshine. Happens a lot when the rain is blown sideways.
ReplyDeleteBeen seeing weird thunderstorms and rain here in the Utah high desert.
ReplyDeleteHave had that happen a few times.
ReplyDeleteWith the winds out of the Columbia River Gorge, on a sunny day you can sometimes see clouds over Washougal, and get rained on crossing the I-5 or I-205 bridges in Vancouver. It's about the same distance you described.
Back in '63 or so, my dad was stationed in Puerto Rico. Lots of times we had rain with a perfectly clear sky. Strangest weather I every did see.
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At least twice I've seen it rain on one side of the interstate while the other was dry and sunny. Both times was on I-26 in Henderson county, NC just southeast of Hendersonville.
ReplyDeleteI just remarked to the old lady a few days ago that I've seen more "sunshowers" in the past two weeks than I have my entire stupid old life. I'll be sitting out in the yard, baking, and then I am getting sprinkled on from God knows where. This, by the way, in both Texas (my adopted state) and New York (my lifelong home, now abandoned, for obvious reasons). Is Mother Nature trying to tell us something?
ReplyDeleteI shit you not. I was on a small two lane bridge in Makawoa, Maui stopped due to a traffic light. I was in the sun and in the on coming lane it was pouring rain. I was in a line of cars at the light and everyone was sticking their hand out the window into the rain in the other lane. That was pretty cool.
ReplyDeleteHere in South Arkansas I've seen it rain in the front yard but not the back.
ReplyDeleteNever heard rain during sunshine meant a fox getting married. I like that!
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Old Gulf Coast saying: "If you don't like the weather, just wait 10 minutes".
ReplyDeleteYou sure it wasn't a golden shower from an American Airlines 767's leaky toilet?
ReplyDeleteOnce, in my young twenties, I got pulled over by a Dorchester Co. Sheriff in SC. He stopped me to tell me that it was only raining on MY car. He couldn't believe it, and wanted to let me know I wasn't crazy...
ReplyDeleteMy first thought was "it's the government pissing on you", but since everyone's taking it seriously, I envy you. We had a bit of rain (1/8") here in the people's democratic republic of Multnomah County a few weeks ago but otherwise, nothing since June. Oregonians don't usually wish for rain, but the summers have been too dry recently.
ReplyDeleteWe got zero rain in June, 8.65 inches in July, and so far this month we've gotten 3.26 inches with rain coming in the next few days.
DeleteRain squalls. We see them all the time here in central KY, especially during the summer. At sea, you can actually track them on radar or sonar.
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