huilbuien
Huilbuien is a colloquial Dutch term for short-lived, localized rain showers. The expression is figurative, likening falling rain to tears from the sky, and is widely used in the Netherlands and Flanders in everyday speech and media. It is not an official meteorological category.
Characteristically, huilbuien are intermittent and patchy; rainfall is typically light to moderate and lasts from a
Usage and context: the term is common in ordinary conversation, weather reports aimed at the general public,
See also: rainfall terminology in Dutch; Dutch weather forecasting and media usage.