Types of rain

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As according the great rain god, Rob McKenna in the most holiest of books "So long and thanks to all the fish", here are the types of rain that Rob so frequently complains about:

11) Breezy droplets

17) Dirty blattering rain, which when it batters against your windscreen, makes no difference to wheather (great pun) you have your windscreen wipers on or off

33) Light pricking drizzle

39) Heavy spotting

47) Vertical drizzle

48) Sharp slanting drizzle

49) Moderate drizzle

50) Refreshing drizzle

87) Vertical downpour

88) Vertical torrential downpour

100) Post-downpour squalling

105) Cold rain

106) Warm rain

110) Mild seastorm

123) Mild gusting rain

124) Intermediate cold gusting rain

126) Syncopated cab-drumming rain

127) Regualar cab-drumming rain

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