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. 😁

From my Mum x

It’s torrential or biblical

Smirr is the word for a gentle mist of rain

It’s pissing down tends to be my main choice of phrase

followed by it’s bucketing down

or there’s a torrential downpour

Not sure if this quite fits but only recently did I hear the phrase “wetter than an otters pocket” and I loved it 🤣

I am absolutely certain there is a nursery rhyme/children’s song with the line “it’s bucketing down again” in it. But Google is coming up blank and I can’t remember the rest! Maybe I’ve imagined it.

Where I grew up in the NW if you got very wet by the rain you were “pisswrapped”

Hurling it down (Yorkshire)

About 25 years ago my parents took us to Paris for the weekend before we went to EuroDisney. We stayed in this absolutely beautiful hotel; I can only describe the building, decor and staff as the most French things that ever Frenched. Anyway we're sat in the lobby waiting to check in, and torrential rain starts coming down. Suddenly this doorman bursts in, raises his arms to the sky and declares in the most French accent of all time...

"C'EST LA DELUGE!!!"

I can't help but say it whenever there's a downpour.

it’s…
slinging it down
chucking it down
heaving it down

it’s evil out there

Hoofing it down. No idea from where the expression originates.

Pishing doon.

Bucketing down
Peeing down
It's pouring

Sometimes the blunter the expression, the better! 😂

Another NE vote for stottin'

Haha I love this!

Its whoring it doon (Central Scotland)

Lashing out of the heavens.

Pissing it down.

It's not taking time to come down.

Bucketing.

N. Irish.

It’s absolutely tipping down. Raining cats and dogs!

I am going to use that forever and forever and forever!

courtesy of the late Sir Terry Pratchett....

....It's a vertical ocean with slots in....

Biblical rain (Noah’s ark)

Came on to say this!

It’s raining stair rods
heavens have opened
its rather inclement (more for a proper storm with wind too!)

Tipping it down

Midlands