Mushroom rain = sunshower?

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milan2003_07

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Hello,

I think among the forum members there're definitely people who like gathering mushrooms in autumn. In Russia this is one of the favorite activities of many people especially older ones. We believe that there are some days when mushrooms in forests grow more rapidly than usual. These are the days when the sun is shining and it's raining simultaneously. We have a specific word for such a rain: "Mushroom raining". Do you use any idiomatic expression in English to describe a rain like this? Maybe "sunshower"?

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Sunshower (sun shower):

"In Russian, it is called грибной дождь (gribnoy dozhd'), "mushroom rain", as such conditions are considered favorable to growing mushrooms.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunshower#cite_note-KPBS-6 It is also often referred to as слепой дождь (slepoy dozhd'}, which literally translates as "blind rain".
 
These are the days when the sun is shining and it's raining simultaneously. We have a specific word for such a rain: "Mushroom raining". Do you use any idiomatic expression in English to describe a rain like this? Maybe "sunshower
Not as far as I know. Pity. I like the idea.
 
Only rarely is there simultaneous sunshine and rain. That's when rainbows are visible.

The nearest equivalent we have to your expression is in the springtime, when showers alternate with warm sunshine. We call this good growing weather.

Rover
 
Only rarely is there simultaneous sunshine and rain. That's when rainbows are visible.

The nearest equivalent we have to your expression is in the springtime, when showers alternate with warm sunshine. We call this good growing weather.

Rover

Actually what I'm speaking about occurs in the summertime in Russia because mushrooms where I live never grow in spring. Concerning autumn such rains as I've described are rare. Probably that's different in other parts of the world.
 
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