• JJROKCZ@lemmy.world
    977·
    1 year ago

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

  • Halosheep@lemm.ee
    55·
    1 year ago

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

      • SCB@lemmy.world
        9·
        1 year ago

        Like 5-8 towns each from Louisiana through alabama

        Even when not colorblind it’s not very easy to see

      • TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee
        5·
        1 year ago

        I’m not colorblind and it’s just not visible. Most of the country is red, and then NY/Philly area is blue. Also southern florida where the NYers live, northern Minnesota for some reason, and sparely throughout new england, all also blue. Majority of country is red but with an unexplained shading that goes from low saturation to high.

        if you squint really hard there’s a white-ish area overlapping Alabama and Mississippi that looks like it might be greenish white.

    • jkmooney@kbin.social
      142·
      1 year ago

      “His wife” could be a…let’s say, “euphemism” for something else. In which case, that ain’t rainwater falling…

    • MyDogLovesMe@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      1 year ago

      A few minutes before the services started, the townspeople were sitting in their pews and talking. Suddenly, Satan appeared at the front of the church. Everyone started screaming and running for the front entrance, trampling each other in a frantic effort to get away from evil incarnate.

      Soon everyone had exited the church except for one elderly gentleman who sat calmly in his pew without moving, seeming oblivious to the fact that God’s ultimate enemy was in his presence.

      So Satan walked up to the old man and said, “Don’t you know who I am?” The man replied, “Yep, sure do.”

      “Aren’t you afraid of me?” Satan asked.

      “Nope, sure ain’t,” said the man.

      “Don’t you realize I can kill you with a word?” asked Satan.

      “Don’t doubt it for a minute,” returned the old man, in an even tone.

      “Did you know that I could cause you profound, horrifying, physical AGONY… for all eternity?” persisted Satan.

      “Yep,” was the calm reply.

      “And you’re still not afraid?” asked Satan.

      “Nope.”

      More than a little perturbed, Satan asked, “Well, why aren’t you afraid of me?”

      The man calmly replied, "Been married to your sister for the last 48 years!!..

  • contextual_somebody@lemmy.world
    35·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee
      6·
      1 year ago

      damn. i was like 55% certain that this was a shitpost and no one actually said that until i read your comment. we almost got a shitpost on c/shitpost. maybe it’s not too late to get a meme on c/meme

    • Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world
      5·
      1 year ago

      Are you me? This is very similar to my story regarding this phrase. I have just heard the phrase associated with the situation. Not that rain falling while the sun is out is CALLED the devil is beating his wife. Rather, it’s just the indicator somehow.

  • Limeey@lemmy.worldEnglish
    24·
    1 year ago

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

    • lolgcat@lemmy.ml
      6·
      1 year ago

      It’s worth noting that the Times released this tool a decade ago. IIRC, around 2015 there was also a push for better colorblind friendly color palettes, especially on the heat map space (I remember watching a matplotlib demo, maybe, with viridis support). While there’s many visualization practices we do better at now, and while this could be due for a redux, I still think it"s one of the best interactives to date. It’s an OG for sure.

      • Limeey@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        That’s fun, and it’s a much better use of heatmap since it’s just a binary scale (least-most similar). When we’re showing discrete options rather than a continuous “similarity” we don’t want to use heatmaps because they cause undesirable blurring.

        Really what the OP is trying to do is show which areas use which phrases. A heatmap could have been used where we have multiple visualizations - one for each phrase - using “Popularity” to show smooth distribution. I assume that the source data is not by county level and instead aggregated so the choropleth never would have worked great.

  • circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org
    20·
    1 year ago

    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.

    That said, Katz is not a linguist and ultimately has a lot of baggage in general.

    • bauhaus@lemmy.mlEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      no, that’s just a golf resort in South Florida and one hotel room in Moscow.

  • janAkali@lemmy.oneEnglish
    14·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • son_named_bort@lemmy.world
    9·
    1 year ago

    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.