鰊にしん曇ぐもり

noun

cloudy weather during the herring season near Hokkaido

A traditional seasonal term for overcast skies common along the Hokkaido coast from the third to the sixth lunar month, when herring fishing was active. Now mostly a historical or regional weather expression.

• 北ほっ海かい道どうの沿えん岸がんでは、春はる先さきに鰊にしん曇ぐもりと呼よばれる曇くもり空ぞらが続つづくことがある。

  Along the coast of Hokkaido, overcast skies called nishingumori sometimes persist in early spring.