Favourite expression to describe a lot of rain?

[VaxMerstappen]

Thread inspired by the fact that it's been raining where I am all bloody day...

I wondered, do you have a favourite expression to describe when the weather's like this? What's your go to phrase? Are you a classic 'it's chucking/dumping/peeing it down' sort of person, or do you prefer to add 'absolutely' in there for extra emphasis? Or the still much-loved but rarer 'cats and dogs'?

My favourite at the moment is 'it's banging it down', on the basis that up until fairly recently, I'd never heard that variation. Or perhaps there's a local version or similar expression that's only said in your part of the country?

Please, tell me. I'm bored and genuinely curious. 😁

Chucking/pissing/heaving it down
torrential rain

Siling down.

I say ‘biblical’. No idea why, I’m not religious

Lashing
Bucketing
Teeming

Lashing it down. Stair rods.

It's pissing down. 🌧

That's my phrase of choice.

Midlands.

Raining upwards - in that it's so heavy it bounces off the ground and rains on you twice!

In Welsh we call it raining old ladies and sticks!

Sorry missed off my location - south west Wales.

Hosing it down

When it's exceptionally heavy in Scotland they say "stair-rods". In Greece it's "chairlegs". I love local variations on sayings...

Hammering or bucketing

Interesting how many words we have already.

I know it's not for this weather, but I have to say I love smirr - is it smirr or have I got that wrong?

Around here we say "The birds are flying with second thoughts"

Absolutely fucking it down

Love this!!

It’s pissing it down and I’m piss wet through - north west

It’s absolutely pissing it down out there.
north wales

Whacking it down, or bouncing down.

Better now the rain is straighter

nice bit of Ronnie ( from the German Reagan )

Yes this.

and also pouring or tanking down.

yorkshire.

Pouring it down
Chucking it down
Pissing it down

South Yorkshire 😃

Raining fish hooks and hammer handles

My mam always says "the heavens have opened" which I quite like.

My gran says "it's raining the devil and pitchforks"

Both very biblical. My husband calls it "a frog strangler" when it's coming down heavy. No idea what it means but I'm fond of it.

Il pleut comme vache qui pisse - it’s raining like cows pissing. It makes me smile

Throwing it down/chucking it down, coming down in stair rods.

I probably mainly use chucking it down. Or "it's raining so much I might as well have had a bath", or it's "sheeting" with rain.

It's absolutely pouring