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Weather Word Nerd

Enhancing English weather words

Dennett
Weather Watchers Central
3 min readMar 19
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Look at the photo above. See the silvery, soft rain that’s falling? What would you call that?

The Merriam-Webster Thesaurus calls it:

drizzle / sprinkle / mist / mizzle / spit / scud

First, what the heck is scud?? That’s a new word for me, and a very unattractive…

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Dennett
Weather Watchers Central

I was always a writer but lived in a bookkeeper’s body before I found Medium and broke free — well, almost. Working to work less and write more.