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. 😁

Absolutely lashing, which it is here at the moment too.

It’s absolutely pissing it down.

The ‘absolutely’ is important.

Edit: Midlands.

Wasn't sure I had it right - but I love that for the 'lighter' lashing! Thank you!

If it’s a normal rainstorm: pissing it down.

If it’s one of the torrential rainstorms that cause flash floods where I live, it goes one further: it’s shitting it down 🫠🤷🏻‍♀️😂

It's pishin' doon

Interesting that soinds like it cones from the dutch (or Afrikaans) for "throw"..Which is certainly apt today.

Interesting! Where I am "mizzog" is a miserable person.

Don't think I've read hooning it down yet!

<peer out the window as if this has never happened before>

It’s fucking hammering down out there.

Bwrw hen wragedd a ffyn (Cymraeg - literally: it's raining old women and sticks)

lashing it down

There's a lovely book called '99 words for rain' about rain in the Irish language

Siling it down in Sheffield !

Someone in my run group said “no running today, it’s gone a bit Marty Pellow” made me lmao

Depends who I’m talking to, pissing down, or more politely, peeing down, both have been used today.

Bucketing or lashing are favourites in NI.

Absolutely pissing it down.

Chucking it down.

Coming down like stair rods out there.

Okay that’s my new favourite!
I like to say ‘It’s lovely weather for ducks’ 😆 originally from the West Midlands.

My DH says, "Plurting down." He's from London with no links to the North at all. He says it was they said growing up. His mum was from Ireland though..

I heard "it's shaking it down" today which I'd never heard before

Interesting no one else has said this one yet:
It's King Crowns (referring to the size of the splash from the drop as it hits water - if you look at them in slow motion they look like a crown)
Queen crowns is for not quite as heavy rain

Persisting it down here too. (From when my parents didn’t use ‘language’ in front of us kids/persistently raining)

Stotting! From the north east, means rain so hard it bounces back up.

My Mum says plurting too but she says it is from the French (il pleut)

Dilly ducks