gullywasher
Heavy sudden rainfall
A gullywasher is a sudden, heavy rainstorm—the kind that fills drainage ditches and washes out gullies.
The term is informal and regional, most common in the American South and Midwest: We got caught in a real gullywasher on the way home.
Any torrential downpour qualifies.
Sudden heavy localized rainfall
- thunderstormViolent weather with lightning
- rainstormHeavy precipitation event
- downpourIntense precipitation event
- tempestViolent windstorm or turmoil
squall · monsoon · deluge · torrent · soaker · waterspout · lightning · thunder
cloudburst
Sudden heavy localized rainfall
- thunderstormViolent weather with lightning
- rainstormHeavy precipitation event
- downpourIntense precipitation event
tempest · squall · monsoon · deluge · torrent · soaker · waterspout · lightning · thunder · precipitation
flashflood
Sudden, violent water overflow
- inundationOverwhelming surge of water
- overflowExceed capacity and spill
- surgeSudden powerful increase
swamped · waterlogged · drenched · soaked · saturated · engulf · submerge · highwater · levee · breach
barnyard
Farm's animal enclosure
holler · creek · hollow · pasture · country · backroads · homestead · southernism · colloquial · folksy
- downpoursdownpour, torrential rain, heavy rain, pouring rain, cloudburst