bucketing down
Raining very hard
Bucketing down describes very heavy rain, as if water were being poured from buckets.
The phrase is chiefly British: We were going to walk to the pub, but it's bucketing down.
Also appears as bucket down or simply bucketing.
Flowing in violent streams
- cloudburstSudden heavy localized rainfall
- peltingStriking repeatedly with projectiles
- lashingBeating or binding
- sheetsFlat expanses of material
driving rain · cats and dogs · gullywasher · soaker · rainstorm · thunderstorm · deluge · precipitation
Thoroughly wet throughout
- saturatedThoroughly soaked through
- soddenSaturated with liquid
- wet throughSaturated entirely by liquid
- waterloggedSaturated with liquid
dripping · sopping · drenched · bedraggled · soaking · dampened · doused · wringing wet
Violent windstorm or turmoil
- thunderstormViolent weather with lightning
- lightningAtmospheric electrical discharge
- squallBrief, violent windstorm
- galeSevere sustained wind
gusts · blustery · wind-lashed · overcast · nimbus · cumulonimbus · dark skies · ominous
torrential
Flowing in violent streams
- cloudburstSudden heavy localized rainfall
- peltingStriking repeatedly with projectiles
- lashingBeating or binding
sheets · driving rain · cats and dogs · gullywasher · soaker · rainstorm · thunderstorm · deluge · precipitation · rainfall
soaked
Thoroughly wet throughout
- saturatedThoroughly soaked through
- soddenSaturated with liquid
- wet throughSaturated entirely by liquid
waterlogged · dripping · sopping · drenched · bedraggled · soaking · dampened · doused · wringing wet · awash
tempest
Violent windstorm or turmoil
- thunderstormViolent weather with lightning
- lightningAtmospheric electrical discharge
- squallBrief, violent windstorm
gale · gusts · blustery · wind-lashed · overcast · nimbus · cumulonimbus · dark skies · ominous · brooding