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Rain that forgot to tell the sun it was leaving.
means A light rain that falls while the sun is still shining, often with no clouds covering the whole sky.
from A plain, descriptive compound — 'sun' plus 'shower' — naming a weather quirk rather than borrowing from any deeper root. What's richer than the word itself is the folklore around the phenomenon: across many cultures, independently, people explained it with trickster tales of animals or devils getting married, precisely because the sun-and-rain combination looked so contradictory it demanded a story. The English term, though, stayed plain and literal while the legends did the fanciful work.
- folklore name
- many cultures call it the devil beating his wife
- cause
- wind carries rain from a distant storm overhead
- bonus odds
- often paired with a rainbow, same optics different mood