Just as in English, the Spanish have a variety of words to describe rain. When you first learn the language, you tend to describe all forms of rain as lluvias. Our teacher put us straight on this a week or so ago.
Here are some of the words that you may hear in relation to rain.
tronar is the verb to thunder, llovar to rain, granizar to hail, nevar to snow and nubar the verb to cloud
- precipitaciones - rainfall
- precipitaciones débiles - light rainfall
- llovizna - drizzle
- chaparrón - a shower
- chubasco - a shower
- lluvia - rain
- tormenta - a thunderstorm
- rayo - a flash of lightening
- trueno -a clap of thunder
- un aguacero - a downpour
- tromba de agua - a cloudburst
- granizo - hail
- nieve - snow
- hielo - ice
- nevada - a snowfall
of course you also hear locals describe rain as simply agua or water.
Speaking about the sky you will hear:-
- cielos nubosos - cloudy sky
- cielos despejados- clear sky
- nube - a cloud
- nubes - clouds
English children sing :-
"Rain, rain go away. Come again another day".
In Spain the children sing:-
“Que llueva, que llueva,
La Virgen de la Cueva
Los pajarillos cantan
Las nubes se levantan
¡Que sí! ¡Que no!
¡Que caiga un chaparrón
Con azúcar y turrón!”
How delightful that if the clouds produce a shower they want it to be sugar and turrón.
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