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Marocká mäta a nechtík lekársky popošli vďaka lejakom.


Marocká mäta a nechtík lekársky popošli vďaka lejakom.

Sorry for Slovak. I have written that moroccan mentha and marigold were pushed out due to showers.



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Lejak...sounds more like a downpour :-) ?

31 May, 2015

 

No need to apologise, Katarina!

31 May, 2015

 

Thank you, Melchi! Hi, Klahanie, I thought shower is a strong short rain, pouring water.....isn´t it?

31 May, 2015

 

The word Shower represents light short rain. Downpour is strong (usually short) rain. Something we used to call lijak when I was young.
Was it sunny today? It is 9AM here but probably late afternoon in Slovakia?

31 May, 2015

 

Thank you very much, Klahanie. Now I see the teachers taught me wrong things all my life :-) Sounds logical.
Yes, it is evening actually. Six o´clock.

31 May, 2015

 

Your English is very good Katarina.

31 May, 2015

 

Exceptionally so, Katarina!

We English have so many ways of describing weather. Especially rain!! And now my daughter is living in Scotland, I have learned even more words - like "smirr". Which is a fine drizzle that is only just raining. And, of course, we find it all endlessly fascinating! (And "drizzle" is rather a good word as well!)

31 May, 2015

 

Not forgetting mizzle (which is a combination of mist and drizzle)

31 May, 2015

 

Yes, that's a good one. And when I was a child, I was always fascinated by "sea fret" which my grandparents in the NE called a sea mist. I don't know whether it was a local term or not.

31 May, 2015

 

That's not one I have come across. But down in Devon, he had "It's getting dimpsy" which meant it was twilight and the light was fading.

31 May, 2015

 

That is rather pretty - like "gloaming".

Poor Katarina will wonder what we are talking about. I did say that we find weather-related matters fascinating!

31 May, 2015

 

I think the eskimos have about 35 words for snow. We have almost as many for rain :-)

31 May, 2015

 

Lol! Quite right, too. Fascinating stuff! ?

31 May, 2015

 

What a discussion I have under my photo, when it is abour rain. Am I on English webpage? Lol.
I know, nations created lot of words for weather. I love scirocco (pronounced by Spanish as shiroco), since I read P. Coelho novel Alchemyst and later spend holiday on Sicily. My favourite wind.

1 Jun, 2015

 

And how about a Chinook......a very warm wind on the west side of Canadian Rockies??? This wind can raise winter temperature from below -20 °C to as high +20 °C in couple of hours . Lasts only few hours , melts all the snow ...you can have lunch on patio ....and then in the same day it will go back to -20. Very bad for vegetation. I do not like wind...no matter how warm it is.
We went through it several time each winter when we worked in Calgary.
:-) Sorry Katarina to hijack your original topic.

1 Jun, 2015

 

I bet during Chinook lot of people get myocardial infarctions and migraines.

1 Jun, 2015



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