@roboneko @mimorinka Hi, it's time for English interjections with 翠星石.

Hardly usually means "hard", but in certain contexts it can mean "barely":

Barely \Bare"ly\, adv.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
4. But just; without any excess; with nothing to spare (of
quantity, time, etc.); hence, scarcely; hardly; as, there
was barely enough for all; he barely escaped.
[1913 Webster]

"hardly raining" isn't grammatically wrong, but it feels wrong, as it's ambiguous whether it's pouring or sprinkling without other context (like the sound of rain pissing down in the background).


I would say "it's barely raining" or "it's sprinkling" myself.