"Martin Rowley" m wrote
in message
.. as already noted, Schauer und Gewitter = shower or thunder (I think
the strict translation for thunderstorm in german is
"Gewittersturm".);

.... no, correcting myself (after consulting a better reference
dictionary), 'Gewitter' *is* sufficient = thunderstorm.

Martin.


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