What is wrong with some of you?

I just call it raining. There doesn’t need to be a certain term for everything ever, we’re not German lol

This would be a lot funnier if there were enough pixels to differentiate the colors in the legend...

The devil is married?

I’m from the Deep South. You couldn’t tell by my accent. I moved away for college and lived overseas and on both coasts. I didn’t know what a “sun shower” was until I was in my mid/late twenties and said “the devil is beating his wife” in front of my friends. That’s the only term for it I had ever heard up to that point.

Devil beating his wife sounds deep south as fuck...

This is a terrific example of where a choropleth (Ideally by county) would have been much more effective than a heat map.

I think we first have to introduce some parts of the western half of the country with this term called "rain".

I grew up in the CA bay area and always called them sunshowers. I didn't make that up: I called them sunshowers when I was a kid because the people around me called them sunshowers.

As an aside, I also taught linguistics at the university level for about 10 years. I do question the accuracy of many of Katz's charts because they very often do not match people's expectations, and beyond the level of "you expected this because you didn't know any better". I would take them with a grain of salt. That's not really a dig on Katz, either: difficult to study anything at this scale.

Funny, but we use the same thing about the Devil beating his wife in Romania as well. At least in Transylvania we do. It's surprising to see this being used in the US as well. I wonder where it originated from.

Apparently the first time this was used was in France 1703. More info here: https://www.theidioms.com/the-devil-is-beating-his-wife/

I believe it's a Golden Shower

In russian we have a phrase "грибной дождь" (mushroom rain) for light warm rain in the sunshine.

It's the best weather for mushroom growth and is therefore a sign to go harvest them in the woods soon.

Wait, others don't say the devil is beating his wife?

Grew up in Georgia. My mom would refer to it as the devil beating his wife. She got it from her mom who presumably got it from her parents. I have no idea why that expression, never got an answer for that.

I'm Florida we call it 4pm.

What is this "rain" you speak of.

Monkey's wedding.

I've mostly heard some variation on sunshower in Texas because while they're not common, they're not super rare either. We also rarely get "sun-derstorms" (dunno what else to call it) in Texas.

Verizon coverage map links up with this data. Coincidence??

Meanwhile, me and my siblings: "It's raining sunshine!"

Fox marries Wolf's wife

In the UK , well the part of the UK I live in we say "it's a monkey's birthday"

Well more actually most of the time we don't say anything about it all

Professor: And Josh what is your thesis about?

Josh: Urrmmmm ahh umm What do you call it when rain falls while the sun is shining?

Professor: Josh youre studying statistics.

Josh: Yeah, naw Im going to graph it.

This map is inaccurate. I'm from Arizona and "sunshower" is commonly used here.

I guess Hawaiian sunshine is just a thing my family uses...

green, I dont live anywhere near that area tho, i just remember someone talking about it online when i was young and it stuck with me

Apparently I'm from an area that uses sunshower, but I've always heard it called the devil beating his wife

I’ve always called it liquid sunshine

In South Africa I remember growing up thinking it was called a monkeys wedding.

It happens very frequently in Florida, I know of it as a sunshower. It not unheard of for your FoV to be filled with blue sky but it's actively raining... that is when people mention sunshower. I've heard the devil is beating his wife but only rarely.