continuous rain or constant rain – but if it’s the type of rain that starts and stops various times
throughout the day, it’s called intermittent rain or scattered showers. When it stops raining, you can
say the rain let up.
Rain is usually accompanied by wind, which can be light/slight winds or high/strong winds. If the wind
is especially strong and violent, you can say fierce winds or gale-force winds – this last expression is
usually used for winds at the level of a hurricane. When the wind is increasing in intensity, we say “The
wind is picking up,” and when it is decreasing in intensity, we say “The wind is dying down.”
Sometimes we describe the wind with an adjective that emphasizes the cold – such as a biting wind or
an icy wind. Finally, a sudden instance of wind can be called a blast of wind or a gust of wind.
Snow, like rain, can be light or heavy. Light snow can also be called snow flurries. When the snow is
being blown around in the wind, we can describe it as driving snow or swirling snow. It can be
wonderful to walk through fresh, powdery, newly-fallen snow – but not so nice to drive on it. So we
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