"I really don't understand this weather! It was perfectly sunny, so why did it suddenly start raining?" Ruri said helplessly as he watched the rain continue to fall.
"Yeah! This rain really is strange! Just a few days ago, I was wishing I could see what a sunshower looked like! The last time I saw one was when I was little!" Momokusa Harukawa said, sitting beside Ruri.
"A sunshower! Doesn't that mean it rains while the sun is out? How is that possible?" After hearing Momokusa Harukawa's words, Ruri gave her a disbelieving look.
"Have you never seen a sunshower, Ruri? I'm telling you, it really does rain while the sun is out. You'd better believe it! I've seen it with my own eyes! This is a sunshower right now!" Momokusa Harukawa said, turning to look at Ruri.
A sunshower was a weather phenomenon in which rain fell while the sun was shining. One type of sunshower usually accompanied a rainstorm, sometimes when a storm several miles away blew airborne raindrops into a cloudless area.
Thus, a sunshower sometimes occurred when a rain cloud passed overhead, while the angle of the sun allowed its light to shine unobstructed by the clouds above.
If the sun's angle was low enough, sunshower conditions usually led to the appearance of a rainbow.
In summer, the sky was sometimes cloudless and the sun shone brightly, only for a sudden burst of heavy rain to arrive. We called this kind of rain a summer shower.
Sometimes, strong winds blew rain over from distant clouds, so we could see the rain but not the clouds.
Sometimes, showers came from clouds high in the sky, and the clouds had already dispersed before the rain reached the ground.
Of course, summer showers covered small areas. Sometimes, there was