show ‧ er ‧ y /ˈʃaʊəri $ ˈʃaʊri/ BrE AmE adjective
raining frequently for short periods:
a showery day
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THESAURUS
▪ rainy a rainy period of time is one when it rains a lot:
a cold rainy day in October
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The weather continued to be rainy.
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The rainy season is in July.
▪ wet rainy. Wet and rainy mean the same and are used in the same way:
In Cyprus during the winter, you’ll only have the occasional wet day.
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The wet weather is expected to continue.
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another wet summer
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It's been wet all week.
▪ damp if the air feels damp, there is a lot of ↑ moisture in the air and it may be raining slightly:
It was a cold damp day.
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a damp November morning
▪ showery raining for short periods:
the cool, bright, showery weather of early April
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The weather will be showery, with some sunny intervals.
▪ drizzly raining slightly, with a lot of mist in the air:
The morning was grey and drizzly.
▪ grey British English , gray American English if the sky is grey, there are a lot clouds, and it looks like it will rain:
The next morning, the sky was grey.
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Then, as if by magic, the sun burst through what had until then been a rather grey day.