203: 7 Words for Snow

There are X words for snow in the Eskimo language - where X is a large ,positive integer somewhere between 7 and 100 (depending on who tells you this ‘fact’).

I only say this because TOWTSH seems to have many words snd phrases to describe rain.

TOWTLH will ask him, “What’s the weather like?” and he might  reply with one of the following stock phrases.

It looks like rain.

Its raining

Its throwing it down

Heavy rain.

It’s not actually raining but it’s in the air.

Rain coming from the West

It’s raining cats and dogs.

The precipitation level is high.

Start building the Ark.

Why are there so many words and phrases about rain?

 Well, after this week, I know.  

This week it has rained cats and dogs and cows and sheep.  On my morning park walk, I have learned to swim.  The park has been very, very wet. 

Our garden has been flooded.

I have slept a lot waiting for the rain to stop. Usually I could have slept through 2 showings of ’Singing in the Rain’ before the rain stopped, but I would only get through 2 choruses of ‘The Wheels on the Bus’ before it started again (the rain, not the bus).

That thought set me thinking about songs about rain.

Have You ever seen the Rsin.

Raindrops keep falling on my Head

Rainy Days and Mondays

Purple Rain

Its Raining Men

Why does it always rain on me?

Here comes the Rain Again

The Day that the Rains came down

A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall

Rainy Night in Soho

Raining In My Heart

Come Rain or Come Shine

… without including items songs such Umbrella .. ella,… ella

Send more suggestions .to John Hornby snd hr can plan his next lockdown repertoire.

Why ’lockdown’ I hear you ask

Well, we’ll be locked in while Boris (or the latest in the long line of incompetent leaders) gets the flood waters down..