Dreich — This is the most common word to describe Scottish weather. And it tends to top polls about favorite Scots words. The Scotsman explains it as: “Wet, dull, gloomy, dismal, dreary or any combination of these. Scottish weather at its most miserable.”

Drookit — Extremely wet, drenched, from an Old Norse word meaning drowned.

Fret — A cold, wet mist from the sea.

Oorlich — “Damp, chilly and unpleasant, raw, bleak, depressing,” says Dictionaries of the Scots Language.

Plowetery — Messy, dirty and wet.

Smirr — Drizzle.

Snell — “The most biting of weather, the type that you can feel right down to the bone,” says the Scotsman.

Stoating — When heavy rain bounces off the ground.

great scrabble words

Most of the weather during our 2017 REI hiking trip in Scotland was described by the guide as "a wee smirr". Thanks for jogging my memory.
TZ

Well, maybe that explains all those mournful celtic fiddle tunes....

Funny how the Inuit have a lot of words describing snow and the Scots have a lot of words describing rain.

Lousy Smarch Weather

These are great. I might have to start using fret and smirr and see if my wife with Scottish ancestry knows gets them by some genetic connection. We have a lot of fog to drizzle here on the California coast. Our personal phrase for the state that is between fog and rain is frogging. That might be either a fret or a smirr, depending on how close we've gotten to a drizzle.

Reminds me of an old Scottish love song, “Roamin’ in the Gloamin.” (Gloaming = twilight)