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. 😁

DH says ‘it’s blatter out there.’ Cheshire.

I also use hoofing it down.
I'm in Norfolk, not sure if it's a local one.

That’s interesting, thank you! Sounds like the origin of their word.

Oh yes got to throw in an "absolutely" for added emphasis.
It's absolutely pouring down ☔ with a few moans and groans and bowing my head as if it's going to shelter me.

Rain coming down in sheets - London

My grandmother used to say "Its raining cats and dogs". I have no idea where that expression came from. Other expressions from my parents generation are "lashing down" and "bucketing down".

Pissing it down
Hoofing it down
Lashing

Piss wrapped, when you get soaked.....

Pissing it
It's bouncing for extreme rain
Lashing
Ne Scotland.

Belting down

It’s torrential out there, teeming (spelling? It looks wrong!), pissing

Absolutely drookit. Although technically that might mean how wet everything is from the rain rather than the actual rain it’s self

I only ever say "it's pouring down". Surrey/London.

I'm fond of the (sometimes somewhat resentful) 'soft day, thank God' - traditional Irish description, used as a starter for the poem.

A Soft Day

Winifred Mary Letts

A soft day, thank God!
A wind from the south
With a honey’d mouth;
A scent of drenching leaves,
Briar and beech and lime,
White elderflower and thyme,
And the soaking grass smells sweet,
Crushed by my two bare feet,
While the rain drips,
Drips, drips, drips from the eaves.

A soft day, thank God!
The hills wear a shroud
Of silver cloud;
The web the spider weaves
Is a glittering net;
The woodland path is wet,
And the soaking earth smells sweet
Under my two bare feet,
And the rain drips,
Drips, drips, drips from the leaves.

PS,not all wet days in Ireland come from the south.
A neighbour used to refer to weather like that we've had in the last week as 'slobbery'.

Chucking it down, pissing it down or
Bwrw glaw Iawn.

Bit of a deluge out there.

The more ironic- it’s a bit wet..

And in this part of the Irish mid-west - 'milling rain' which I think must be a comparison with the fall of water from an open mill race.

It's been milling down for days.

I once saw a Shire horse peeing - that was truly impressive.

Hoying it down
Coming down like stair rods
It's teeming
Pittling down

Inundaćion - Spanish but I call it Spanish rain, when it rains there it's almost always torrential.

Ark weather

I love this. Best raining story !!!!

We say that in Ireland too. And it's being doing just that for about 24 hours now😭

Does it have what we call Irish rain in it? You know where it's raining so light you can't see the rain, it's more like a mist, but it soaks you all the same?

And in Ireland too!

We call that misting where I am in Ireland 😊