The weather in Blighty can be mighty frighty.

[Workingman]

The BBC is running an article on regional descriptions for weather.

Many of them are fairly familiar, such as it raing "cats and dogs" or "stair rods" or "howling a gale", but others are lot less well known.

Being ex RAF I lived all over the UK so things such as "nesh" or it being "a bit dark over Bill's mother's" although local, I understand. We have a few up here: "The rain in Leeds falls mainly on the weeds" and it's "siling it down" spring to mind.

Do you lot have any to add?

[Osc]

"A fine soft day" is often the Irish equivalent of "coming down in stair rods"

[Kaz]

Well it rains so much here that they wrote a nursery rhyme about it, so my names for rain are unprintable

[AliasAggers]

I can think of several expressions concerning the weather that were used in my old home town,
but none are suitable for putting on a respectable website such as Vocal Voices.

[Workingman]

I must be a bit prim and proper when it comes to describing weather.

The worst I can think of is pi55ing it down. I would dearly love to know what your unprintable ones are.

[meriad]

I must be a bit prim and proper when it comes to describing weather.

The worst I can think of is pi55ing it down. I would dearly love to know what your unprintable ones are.

Same here... my worst would probably be that it's f**** chucking it down

[cromwell]

Some people around Huddersfield call a freezing day a nithering day. Some older people used to call an icy wind a lazy wind (because it went straight through you without bothering to go round you).

My favourite is "blowing a hooley" for a gale.

Oh, and do the Scots call a drizzly day "dreich"?

[TheOstrich]

Interestingly, I can't actually think of any particular "West Midlands" dialect phrases for the weather ......

[JoM]

Me neither Ossie...maybe "it's 'ommering it down"? (It's hammering it down...or it's raining rather heavily).

[Diflower]

Yes dreich is right cromwell, I worked in Fleet but the rest of the team was in Glasgow, it took me a long time to get used to the accent and the language