It's all relative

While in Bangladesh recently, there were a couple of what we'd call torrential downpours one day. Each lasted just under an hour. This was in the middle of the dry season so I expected some mention in the following day's newspapers. Sure enough...

"Yesterday, there were outbreaks of brief light drizzle in the city."

In a country which gets monsoons, where the rain takes about a second to shred your umbrella and then makes your unprotected skin feel as though it's being peppered with marbles, I suppose one of our heavy rainstorms would count as light drizzle.