If it's raining while the sun is shining, you call it...?

Answer 1

I would call it beautiful... Haha.

Answer 2

in one word a sun shower

Thank you for your question. It appears you're definitely not the
first person who made an inquiry into the etymology of the phrase!

Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any specific orgin listed
anywhere. I performed an extensive search and the phrase variations
for different animals "put name of animal here... wedding day" is
worldwide and a mystery as to when and where it originated.


LINGUIST List 9.1795 Thu Dec 17 1998 Sum: Sunshower
http://www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de/linguist/issues/9/9-1795.html#1

On November 6, 1998, I posted a request for words or expressions for
the term sunshower (LINGUIST 9.1565), and the number of responses was
overwhelming. I have summarized the responses below, arranged
alphabetically by language. Many thanks to all of you who wrote in
with your ideas; I have tabulated the list of respondents at the end
of this letter.

[scroll from Abkhaz to Zulu]

"1. I came across a small piece in the Guardian Weekly newspaper referring
to the fox's wedding. (The Guardian Weekly is a digest of the Guardian,
and is ditributed overseas. The article was probably in a section of the
paper called "Country Diary"; if pushed, I'd say it was after 1990.) It
seems this term is used in parts of the south west of England. The article
speculated that perhaps the term had originally been 'the folks' wedding',
but I don't think there was any evidence for that. (Dave Cragg)"

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Bhikku.net
http://www.bhikku.net/archives/02/mar02.html

Les Noces des Renards

What do you say when it's sunny and raining at the same time, what the
meteorologists call a sunshower? It was always 'a monkey's birthday'
with me - but there's a wide range of variants around the world,
though most of them concentrate on birthdays and weddings. The
commonest expression is 'a fox's wedding', used in Armenia and
Kurdistan (if you can equate a wolf with a fox), Brazil, Bulgaria, the
UK, Finland, India (jackal=fox), Italy, Japan, and Portugal.

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What do you say when it's raining and sunny at the same time?
http://www.metafilter.com/comments.mefi/9621

"I wonder which language the "fox/wolf/monkey/rat's wedding" phrase
originated from. It seems to have travelled through almost every
language, and all without me ever hearing of it!

Also, I don't think I read anywhere an explanation for this metaphor.
Does anyone know?"

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"Just conjecture here, but I think the foxes' wedding thing is purely
the sense of the magical that accompanies an uncommon occurrence such
as a sunshower. Foxes have mythic godlike qualities in many
cultures...also the wedding is supposed to be secret from the human
world, because the rain would keep us humans indoors...maybe the
aspect of the rainbow that would doubtless be created by a sunshower
lends an element of the mystical as well.

Generally it may be an old legend to deal with a phenomenon man
couldn't quite get his mind around (It's raining and sunny at the same
time. Eek!). Similar to the idea that the Northern Lights would mean
someone's death. In other words, Nature is doing something we don't
understand, better leave it alone."

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Wikipedia - Sunshower




Do you know the origin of the phrase “a fox’s wedding day,” when it is
sunny and raining at the same time? My mother always told me this
when I was a child, and I would dearly love to know where it comes
from. $10 tip to the researcher who answers!

Answer 3

In Polish, the saying is that “when the sun is shining and the rain is raining, the witch is making butter." For Filipinos, "elves are getting married", or "tikbalang" (half-horse, half-men) and a "kapre" are getting married, while in Spain it is witches, and in Greece it is the poor.

In Lithuanian, the phenomenon is described as "orphans' tears," where the sun is the grandmother drying those tears. In Russian, it's "mushroom rain," as such conditions are considered favorable to growing mushrooms.

In the United States, particularly the South, a sun shower is said to show that "the devil is beating his wife." Similar phrases occur in Hungary and Holland. A regional variant from Tennessee is "the devil is kissing his wife."

BUT ACTUALLY its a SUN SHOWER -The nature of cumuluform clouds is such that the sun can often be seen while they are producing rain. If a sun shower occurs in the early morning or late afternoon (specifically, any time the sun is at less than a 42° angle), a rainbow can occur.

Anecdotally, it's said that a sun shower is a sign that rain will occur again soon, specifically that it will rain the next day.

Answer 4

we say here in Bangladesh that "a Fox is getting married while its raining & the sun is shining at the same time"

Answer 5

Rainbow

Answer 6

That is splendid then sees one a rain arc. That can be there also two.

Answer 7

a sun shower

Answer 8

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Answer 9

sun showers

Answer 10

The Angels tears of joy




not the baseball team....

Answer 11

The marriage of the Fox.!!!