Martin wrote:
Chucking it down with mizzle here on the south east coast of the Isle of
Wight
I had to look up "mizzle".

Mizzle's a great word. It's like an onomatopoeia of weather.

Really?

Mizzle falls with a resounding silence.

Of weather, not of sound. Mizzle because it is .. mizzley. It makes sense
to me. :-)