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 #2 (permalink) Fri Dec 12, 2008 4:37 am Light showers |
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Hello,
Light showers means light rain. In other words, not heavy rain or a lot of rain. Showers, when talking about weather, refers to rainfall.
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| #3 (permalink) Sun Jan 04, 2009 9:04 am what does rain shower mean? |
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What does rain show mean, is it difference from ligth shower? please describe along with the example.
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| #4 (permalink) Mon Jan 05, 2009 23:46 pm what does "light showers" means? |
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You should say "rain showers." A rain shower is rainfall that is short in duration.
"Showers are small local periods of rain or snow that last a short time. They are usually of light to moderate intensity and are likely to start and stop suddenly."
http://www.fi.edu/weather/events/showers.html
Light showers are similar in that they don't last long and they are "light in intensity."
In other words, if you hear a forecaster say that tomorrow you will experience "light rain showers" or "light showers," you can expect to see a little bit of rain but nothing that will last too long and you will not see a heavy rain storm occur.
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| #5 (permalink) Mon Jan 05, 2009 23:53 pm what does "light showers" means? |
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People don't normally refer to light snowfall as light showers in everyday life. Light showers usually refer to light rainfall. I'm from Canada and we get a lot of snow every year and I don't think I've heard any forecaster refer to light snow as light showers.
Anyway, to avoid any confusion about this, we've deleted 'option B - snow' and replaced it with another verb.
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