Something I on't understand about weather reports

[abcdefz]

...there's no legend on these sites or in my paper, so I can't figure out:

What's the difference between "rain," "rain showers," "showers," and "storms"?

"Thunderstorms" I think I understand.

[TurdBerglar]

don't you live in southern cali? the fuck you worried about weather for?

[kaiser soze]

The weather reports around my area have been far from close, been expecting snow and have seen much much less....it sucks!

[abcdefz]

don't you live in southern cali? the fuck you worried about weather for?


Well, it was either weather or minks, and fuckedupgirl already picked minks.



No, actually -- I live in the -- Bay Area. It's rain season.

[77caddie]

It's pretty simple
- a shower is a brief period of precipitation
- a storm suggests severe weather phenomena; they are usually found along 'fronts' which are the boundaries of cold air and warm air intermixing and creating a disturbance of the atmosphere. The fronts are rapidly propelled by the jet stream which form primarily along the passages created between high pressure and low pressure air masses- which is why we have wind (air going from high pressure to low pressure)

rain is just the type of precipitation, and that is why you can have snow showers too.

found this on wikipedia for you:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rain#Classifying_the_amount_of_rain
* very light rain — when the precipitation rate is < 0.25 mm/hour
* light rain — when the precipitation rate is between 0.25 mm/hour - 1.0 mm/hour
* moderate rain — when the precipitation rate is between 1.0 mm/hour - 4.0 mm/hour
* heavy rain — when the precipitation rate is between 4.0 mm/hour - 16.0 mm/hour
* very heavy rain — when the precipitation rate is between 16.0 mm/hour - 50 mm/hour
* extreme rain — when the precipitation rate is > 50.0 mm/hour

oh and fyi about 25 mm in one inch

[paul jones]

pissing it down - raining a lot very fast