thundershower

English

A typical thunderstorm.

Etymology

thunder +‎ shower

Noun

thundershower (plural thundershowers)

1. A rain shower accompanied by thunder and lightning.

   The thundershower poured down on us as we ran home, but returned to a drizzle after several minutes.

   • 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 72:

     [S]ometimes, like the priests of Baal in the Bible, he would cut himself with knives till the blood fell upon the ground in great drops suggestive of an oncoming thunder-shower.

See also

• cloudburst