heavy rain
Deluge from above
Heavy rain is rainfall of unusual intensity—the kind that soaks through clothing in minutes, overwhelms gutters, and reduces visibility while driving.
Weather services define it technically by volume per hour, but in ordinary speech it simply means rain that's falling hard: We got caught in heavy rain on the way home.
Distinct from a brief downpour, heavy rain suggests sustained force.
- downpourIntense precipitation event
- cloudburstSudden heavy localized rainfall
- pouring downRaining very heavily
- delugeSevere overflow of water
- floodOverwhelming water overflow
thunderstorm · monsoon · bucketing · erosion · sheets · evacuation · runoff · cats and dogs · weather advisory · flash flood · drumming · squall · drainage · storm drain · landslide · pelting · inundation · drenched
- raindrizzling, downpour, droplets, drops, sprinkle
- rainfallprecipitation, drizzle, downpour, shower, wet season
- tropical weatherhurricane, tropical storm, tropical cyclone, hurricanes, tropical depression
- Water damage causesflooding, leaky pipes, burst pipes, roof leaks, storms
- downpourdeluge, cloudburst, torrent, bucketing, teem
- downpoursdownpour, cloudburst, deluge, torrential, pouring
heavy raindrizzle
Very light precipitation
light rain · mist · sprinkle · scattered showers · intermittent rain
heavy raindrought
Prolonged water scarcity
clear skies · fair weather · sunshine · dry spell · bone-dry
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