falling weather

American  

noun

Chiefly Midland U.S.

1. wet weather, as rain or snow.

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Example Sentences

"White frost and mackerel sky; going to be falling weather," Jim said, aloud, as he went out of the yard, crunching the crisp grass under heel.

From The Copy-Cat and Other Stories by Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins

I bet it's falling weather over in Surprise Valley.

From Ma Pettengill by Wilson, Harry Leon

Summer had advanced until the June freshets were to be expected, and for the next month we should be fortunate if our advance was not checked by floods and falling weather.

From The Log of a Cowboy A Narrative of the Old Trail Days by Adams, Andy

It is now a month earlier, and the meteorological phenomena portend "falling weather."

From What I Saw in California by Bryant, Edwin

"He don't believe in dreams but some dreams like when you dream of the dead there's sho' goner be falling weather."

From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 5 by Work Projects Administration