The other day, I was surprised by a sudden rain shower. While in the garden, everything was bright and sunshiny, then a few moments later, I was being drenched. Raindrops fell with a delightful burst of energy cooling the afternoon heat...but...that sun just kept on shining! I was caught in the midst of a sun shower. It felt good. It felt refreshing. I felt as happy as the raindrops seemed to be.
There are a lot of weird little folktales or myths attached to sun showers. The most commonly heard is that the devil is beating his wife. That sounds just about right for the devil but why would it be attached to such a lovely sight as the sun shower? Nope. Don't like that one. Another is that a witch is getting married. Hmmm? Well, I guess if she wanted to spend the time to conjure up a weather phenomenon just to be crafty on her wedding day, this would suffice but that is purely up to her, I guess. Then, there is the belief that a sun shower is the harbinger of severe weather to come the next day at the same time of day. Since we did not receive a bad storm the next day...rain showers...but not severe, that one is discredited, I suppose. Most of the other tales were all connected to animals getting married...huh...especially fox. Alrighty, then. After digging around in the wonderful world of the internet, I finally came across a "good" thing connected to sun showers. The rains are supposedly healing. This...I like!
To be honest, all rains are healing. The water heals the earth and allows for life to continue. Without rainfall, all would soon wither and die. It does not take a phenomenon such as a sun shower to prove this. There is a scientific explanation, however. It seems that sun showers occur when a single cloud jumps the gun and moves ahead of the crowd and drops some rain. The angle of the sun is not blocked by the single cloud allowing for a sun shower. While this is all well and good, it is not as fun as being all magical and stuff! I think I shall keep with the healing raindrops.
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