Raining with the sun out...

I had always heard when it was raining and the sun was shinning that it was going to rain at the same time the next day. The "Devil beating his wife" or "God bowling" was when it was thundering are a couple of things I recall hearing when I was little.

Hi ElicBxn, This may sound very strane but my mother and then my oldest sister use to say sun and rain, its Jack Frost wedding, now I can't make any sense of that one. Tamara

Sheesh does it seem like almost everyone has an attitude today? Anyhow, today here in Minnesota we have had fgreezing rain, sleet, ice, and now snow falling. Highways are getting terrible to drive on also. Love this winter weather we get here in Minnesota. Being from a Catholic family I can not recall any particular name given to this when it rains and the sun is shining. Just raining with a possible rainbow is all I know of it. HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB !!~

not quite, but this little ditty - ~ it's raining ~ it's pouring ~ ~ the old gray man is snoring ~ ~ he went to bed ~ ~ and bumped his head ~ ~ and he didn't get up 'til the morning ~ Another one that always came out on rainy days ... ~ itsy bitsy spider went up the water spout ~ ~ down came the rain and washed the spider out ~ ~ out came the sun to dry up all the rain ~ ~ so the itsy bitsy spider went up the spout again ~

uh... raining when the sun's out?

Here in south africa, the afrikaans people call it, jakals trou met wolf se vrou. It means the jackal marries wolf's wife. I have no idea what they were thinking. It just doesnt make sense. I havent heard any others here so this discussion is very interesting. It happens a lot here. And we get tripple rainbows when it happens.

I have actually never heard anyone discuss this phenomena at all. It's interesting what your family and friends have said about it.

Hi, interesting what some folks come up with. In Australia we use this rather non-superstitious term "Sunshower'.

Yup heard that it was the devil beating his wife to but don't really know what it means but it does a lot of raining when the sun is out here

I don;t know what you are talking about, do you have a name for this in your family, a name for what you have to be more specific

I have never heard of it being called any kind of name before in my family. We always said that when that happens, it will rain at the same time tomorrow.

I have never head of it being called any of those things. I think it is kind of different. I have hard that when it is thundering that God is bowling.

We have always said that "the devil is beating his wife" when it is raining while sunny. I'm wondering if it's a Southern thing, because the people who said they heard it called that are all Southern. lol Something kind of funny...Medicare asked my Mom to participate in a study about services recieved. The lady who comes to do the interviews about every 3 months was here one day when the sun was shining and it started raining. My Mom said, "Oh, the devil is beating his wife again." The lady looked absolutely terrified! She said, "Excuse me?" So my Mom repeated it and explained it to her. She said, "Oh, my! I don't like to talk about things like that!" We didn't laugh about it until after she left. But we did have a good laugh. I told my Mom that the lady probably thinks we are all devil worshippers or something now. It's great being Southern.

I, too, heard the "angels & the Devil" thing, but I couldn't tell you how old I was when I heard it. Pretty young, I think. I =think= I recall once hearing that it was God weeping when that happens. But it never struck me as an appropriate visual metaphor for such a heartbreaking event; it's too pretty when it happens! Maggiepie

i dont know but my hubby always calling me"sweet devil".