falling weather

falling weather (uncountable)

1. Weather in which rain (or snow, or hail, etc) occurs or is expected to occur.
   • 1883, S. S. Bassler, The Weather: A Practical Guide to Its Changes Showing Signal Service System, and how to Foretell Local Weather, page 20:

     When small clouds disappear, there will be no rain that day. If they increase in size, and unite, falling weather is at hand. The reason is plain.

   • 1905 [????], Colonial Society of Massachusetts, “Diary of George Washington”, in Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, page 174:

     Morning cloudy, with the wind at West, which shifting to the No. Et. produced strong and encreasing appearances of falling weather before the evening.

   • 1920, Daniel Lindsey Thomas, Lucy Blayney Thomas, Kentucky Superstitions, page 193:

     2503 If ducks fly high, there will be clear weather. 2504 If ducks fly low, there will be falling weather.

   • 2013 July 15, Newman Ivey White, Wayland D. Hand, The Frank C. Brown Collection of NC Folklore: Vol. VII: Popular Beliefs and Superstitions from North Carolina, pt. 2, Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 267:

     6415 If you dream of the dead, there will be falling weather. Mabel Ballentine, Raleigh. Cf. No. 6169, above, No. 6651, below. 6416 When the cat turns her back to the fire, there will be falling weather. Zilpah Frisbie, Marion, McDowell county; Mamie Mansfield […]

• 1900, Joseph Wright, The English Dialect Dictionary, Being the Complete Vocabulary of All Dialect Words Still in Use, Or Known to Have Been in Use During the Last Two Hundred Years: F-M, page 291:

  There'll be falling-weather before night (A.B.)