cats & dogs

As you would agree, it's was extremely hot in the past few days. Everyday is hot but yet you see a bit of dark clouds lingering ard from noon till evening but didn't rain. Even if it does, it's only for that mere 5-10mins.

Today, suddenly.....it's pouring like cats & dogs!!! It's like 50m visibility from my office window right now. Hmmm...Probably due to the accumulation of the "rain dun want to rain" kind of weather last few days. So today, at one go...all the way.....

While I was writing this, suddenly I wondered. Why do we often hear people saying "Raining like cats and dogs". What has cats and dogs gotta do with raining.

Click here and there in google. This is what I found:

Pouring cats & dogs?
Where did that come from? Who started that saying

We have all heard the expression "it's raining cats and dogs." There are several theories about this rainfall saying. It is possible that the word cat is derived from the Greek word 'catadupe' meaning 'waterfall.' Or it could be raining 'cata doxas,' which is Latin for 'contrary to experience,' or an unusual fall of rain.

In Northern mythology the cat is supposed to have great influence on the weather, and English sailors still say the cat has a gale of wind in her tail when she is unusually frisky. Witches that rode upon the storms were said to assume the form of cats; and the stormy northwest wind is called the cat's nose in the Harz mountains even at the present day. The dog is a signal of wind, like the wolf. Both animals were attendants of Odin, the storm-god. In old German pictures the wind is figured as the "head of a dog or wolf," from which blasts issue. The cat therefore symbolizes the down-pouring of rain, and the dog the strong gusts of wind that accompany a rainstorm; and a rain of "cats and dogs" is a heavy rain with wind

Something new to learn today.....