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Trivia about rain

  • In a song in "The Fantasticks", "Soon it's gonna" do this, "I can see it. Soon it's gonna" do this, "I can tell"
  • In Spain it comes down in "jugs"; in Italy, "basins"; in France, "ropes"; & in the U.S., "cats & dogs"
  • Despite the city's reputation, only about 35 inches a year
  • Ombrophobia is the fear of this; better get a big umbrella
  • The snake dance of the Hopi is a petition to the gods to bring this
  • In cloud names, "nimbus" means this, so get out your umbrella
  • A record 73 inches of this fell on the island of Reunion in just 24 hours in 1952
  • Take the letter B off an organ of thought & you get this type of weather
  • First witch:"When shall we three meet again in thunder, lightning, or in ____?"
  • The Great Aztec Temple was dedicated to the sun god & to Tlaloc, god of this weather condition
  • Blue Eyes Crying in the ____ Man
  • Precipitation is often just a fancy word for this
  • Mt. Waialeale in Hawaii gets the most, while Calama, Chile, usually gets none
  • To fall in great quantities, like confetti in a parade
  • As the god of this type of weather, Jupiter had the epithet Pluvius
  • If you have pluviophobia, the fear of this weather condition, we probably won't find you "singin' in" it
  • The sun is made to rise on the evil & the good & this is sent "on the just and on the unjust"
  • In an ancient Roman house the impluvium was a basin in the atrium set up to receive this
  • Who'll Stop The____ Man