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. 😁

Good weather for ducks

We say ‘lashing rain’ here in Ireland.

Humping it down ☺️

Absolutely hoying it down. Also raining cats and dogs (I’ve just stepped in a poodle 🤣)

Heavens have opened or, more likely, it’s raining cats and dogs. Suspect they come from my London roots…..

My dad says “the kind of rain that hits you on the way up as well as the way down” for rain that is so hard it bounces back up.

Bucketing

Persisting it down or biblical

I love that but I would have thought that les cheavaux would have had the heavier stream? (Why am I even thinking about this?!)

It's coming down in sheets.

its Piss Pouring!!! close the upstairs windows ...hahahaha. rain here NORMALLY lasts for all of five min then back to sunshine, but windows open above the beds means soggy pillows

‘Wetter than an Otters pocket’ is my personal favourite.
Often hear cats and dogs, heavens opened and bucketing down we’re in the midlands.

My mum always said “it’s coming down whole water”

Pissing it down, chucking it down. Raining cats and dogs Midlands

Pishing it doon! - Scotland

My mum and nan say/said it’s purtling down, but I’ve never heard anyone else say it (and I’m not entirely sure how to spell it!) North West, north of Manchester. I’d be interested to know if anyone else has ever heard the expression….

” what a mishog day” has been uttered here today

It's absolutely tipping it down

Or DH: it's hossing it down

😅

I thought ‘bucketing’ was a family expression, derived from ‘the rain is coming down in buckets,’ which I wouldn’t use outside the family.

It seems it’s known to others, though. 🤔

In Australia we say “It’s absolutely flogging”. I find it very descriptive.

I like “it’s so wet the animals are walking in pairs”.

Absolutely shitting it down.

I also came on to say 'mae hi'n bwrw hen wragedd a ffyn'/it's raining old ladies and sticks.

They have a similar phrase in Afrikaans apparently, but with clubs not sticks. One suggestion is that it is based on the effect you get when you look at a raindrop falling into a puddle. The vertical upward splash is the stick, and the circular ripple is the skirt of the old lady.

I personally like 'It's persisting down'. Or 'mae hi'n pystillio'. It means it's pouring down, but I like it because pystill means waterfall.

I would have said 'smurring'
But for a lot of rain - lashing

We sometimes say ‘it’s gone all Jurassic park out there’