BBC原文連結The stories behind Britain's weirdest weather words
今天在BBC看到這篇跟天氣有關的文章,這篇是跪婦小筆記,所以就不翻譯了喔。
- Northern nanny: which describes cold hail and windstorm coming from the north,
- Moor-gallop: a sudden squall on a moor.
- Dinderex: a Devon term for a bolt of lightning which literally means ‘thunder-axe’.”
- Picking: although this is mainly used in a few parts of Wales to describe a light rain
- Custard wind: cold, easterly winds on England’s northeast coast)
- Cat's nose: cool north-westerly wind)
- Cow-quaker: refers to May storms after cows were let into the fields
- Lambing storm : is a light spring snowfall
- Horse-guts: In Scots, small broken clouds can be described as ‘’
- Goose fair morning: in Nottingham to describe a bright but cool daybreak,
- Airish: for cool weather is now mainly used in Scotland
- Letty, stoating or specking: words for rain