Maybe its me

[weecalf]

Coming home tonight in the car ,it started to rain out side . I wondered why did I refer to it as rain but if it had been during I may have said theres a shower on .So do we have showers at night during the hours of darkness .

[Buenchico]

" . . . it started to rain out side"?

I'd be more worried if if it had started to rain inside!

To me, whether it's 'drizzle', 'a shower', 'a deluge', 'raining cats and dogs' or 'bloody p!ssing down', it's still raining!

[weecalf]

Yes but do we refer to rain at night as showers ?

[daisya]

Probably not WC because we can't see them only the wet stuff coming down (well it wouldn't go up would it!)

[masma]

If I get up in the morning and it's not raining but the patio is wet I say "we must have had a shower"

[pusskin]

no never weecalf --its always peeing down with rain lol

[weecalf]

So does the word shower maybe come from show as like the rain shows its self and if its dark we cant really see it .

[Buenchico]

I still refer to intermittent rain at night as showers.

Typing 'BBC "overnight showers" ' into Google shows that the phrase has been used on countless weather forecasts.

Accept it, Weecalf; you're just weird!
;-)

[anneasquith]

we have little " sun showers "

[Buenchico]

The Concise Oxford Dictionary states that 'shower' is derived (via a very convoluted route) from the (early) Germanic for 'storm'.

[pastafreak]

I think it refers to the amount or intensity of rain...not when it happens.

[weecalf]

Never heard of showers at night .Ist rain at night for me .

[anneasquith]

we also get " horizontal rain " :)

[daisya]

As long as it comes down and not up we should be ok then.

[annadomino]

We have lazy rain.
It goes through you rather than round you.

[anneasquith]

daisya. if the rain went up. we would drown :)