What is "scattered showers"

Usage examples of "scattered showers".

An 80 percent chance of showers was forecast for the afternoon, with scattered showers through the weekend, clearing by Monday night.

Later today when the sun rises, the folks down there should have a reasonably nice day with scattered clouds and scattered showers.

It was still raining, although it had slackened off recently, with sporadic outbreaks during the early part of the millennium and scattered showers during the last couple of decades.

Cloudy with scattered showers, and chilly, temperature in the middle forties, dropping to just below freezing at night.

I throw open the windows to gaze through mists and scattered showers upon the far, unpopulated lands, our tentdespoiled lawns and catch on that still veering wind, brought over the hills and across the plains the reasserted rumble of distant artillery fire, and the smell of death's decay upon the freshening breeze.

The weather around Twisp had shifted from scattered showers to a warm wind with clear skies directly overhead.

The skies, however, had to date vouchsafed only scattered showers, and Lucy looked like a continuing drought.

The winter had been hard indeed, but was blessedly over, the sun had shone on Easter Day, and continued shining ever since, with only light, scattered showers to confirm the blessing.

The rainy season seemed to have tailed off into scattered showers, and there were thick trees to shield her from those.

WEATHER BUREAU FORECAST: partly cloudy today with a few scattered showers.