What's the difference between rainy and showery?

Rainy


Definition:

  • (a.) Abounding with rain; wet; showery; as, rainy weather; a rainy day or season.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 54% of patients in the rainy season were ELISA positive for RSV compared to 8.8% during the dry season.
  • (2) This is the grim Fury on a rainy winter morning in Cannes.
  • (3) Acholeplasma laidlawii was frequently isolated from samples both from cows and from farm bulk tanks during wet, rainy weather in the spring of 1978, apparently as contaminants only.
  • (4) The arts Facebook Twitter Pinterest Portland Art Museum For rainy days – and Portland has its fair share – as well as creative inspiration, Portland Art Museum is a must.
  • (5) The average number of infective larvae of O. volvulus per infective fly was 2.6 and 2.2 during the rainy and dry seasons respectively.
  • (6) "Users clearly want the option of being anonymous online and increasingly worry that this is not possible," said Lee Rainie, Director of the Pew Research Center's Internet Project.
  • (7) A cross-sectional survey in November, at the end of the rainy season, revealed a point prevalence parasitaemia of 2.0% and a spleen rate of 0.3%.
  • (8) Of the 22 fungal species isolated, A. flavus and A. parasiticus were the predominant species (63.8%) during the rainy season, followed by other species of Aspergillus, Penicillium, Fusarium, Rhizopus, Helminthosporium, and Curvularia.
  • (9) South Sudan's rainy season has overwhelmed aid efforts in refugee camps sheltering more than 100,000 Sudanese refugees in Maban county, say international aid agencies.
  • (10) The majority of lesions appeared during the June-October rainy season.
  • (11) The overall infection rate was found to be around 20% with a distinct peak of acute infections during the rainy season.
  • (12) Further trouble seems likely, with talk of a “day of rage” on Tuesday and strikes by students at Bir Zeit University near Ramallah, but the sudden onset of rainy weather may help to calm the febrile mood.
  • (13) Studies on Culex pipiens fatigans dispersal were conducted during the hot, cold, rainy, and post-rainy seasons in 2 villages in the Delhi area in order to improve techniques and to determine the optimum time of release.
  • (14) In the palm grove, transmission was ensured by 2 effective vectors during the rainy season (October to May).
  • (15) But this El Niño arrives at the end of California’s rainy season and is quite weak, Halpert said.
  • (16) Most cases of bronchiolitis occurred in outbreaks during the rainy months of August through November, coinciding with respiratory syncytial virus outbreaks.
  • (17) There are two birth peaks in the year that coincide with the rainy season.
  • (18) Falling standards of sanitation resulted in the first outbreak of cholera in Lusaka, Zambia, during the rainy season, February 1990.
  • (19) There is an indication that the winter season is most conducive for the spread of the disease (51.0%), followed by post-monsoon (41.3%), summer (23.1%) and rainy season (11.1%).
  • (20) Attacks usually occurred in winter and the rainy season.

Showery


Definition:

  • (a.) Raining in showers; abounding with frequent showers of rain.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a shower or showers.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The warm weather will not reach all parts of the country, however – with pockets of north-west England still expecting showery downpours this weekend.
  • (2) Sense and Sensibility is kicked into life by a misjudgment about the weather: Marianne goes walking on the Devon hills with her younger sister Margaret, convincing herself that "the partial sunshine of a showery sky" bodes well.
  • (3) Sadly, Scotland will not really see it at all and it will be a bit showery in the north-west from time to time but they will see some of the sunnier weather.
  • (4) The cafe at the new Stonehenge visitor centre was packed; it was showery outside but inside the atmosphere was thick with the distinctive aroma of wet Gore-Tex – a smell I always associate with the British heritage industry.
  • (5) Another band of heavy rain is expected to sweep across Wales, the Midlands, the south-east and East Anglia on Tuesday, but the rain will be more showery in the south-west.
  • (6) As we reached the stones another showery curtain came swishing over the Wiltshire sward.

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