Word for a lot of rain


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много дождей

много дождя

много осадков

сильный дождь

большим количеством дождя

большим количеством осадков

сильные дожди

очень дождливо


That seems to be a lot of rain.


It grows in tropical forests that get a lot of rain.



Это растет в тропических лесах, которые получают много дождя.


Northeastern slopes of high mountains often receive a lot of rain while southwest slopes do not.



Северо-восточные наклоны высоких гор часто получают много дождя, в то время как юго-западные наклоны не делают.


But spring is rainy, sometimes a lot of rain falls in June.



А вот весна дождливая, иногда много осадков выпадает и в июне.


The weather forecast says there will be a lot of rain this summer.



Дождливая погода в этот день говорит о том, что летом тоже будет много осадков.


There was a lot of rain this year too.


We’ve had a lot of rain this month.


There’s been a lot of rain this year.


We have had a lot of rain this summer.


We had a lot of rain this month.


We had a lot of rain last year.


We’ve had a lot of rain recently.


When there’s a lot of rain, we have problems here.



В год, когда много дождей, всегда проблемы с этой квартирой.


There was a lot of rain this spring and early summer.



В этом году весной и в начале лета было много дождей.


We’ve had a lot of rain, and the only tyre tracks we can find up here are yours.



Было много дождей, и следы шин, которые мы можем найти здесь — только ваши.


If snow falls, it means there will be a lot of rain in the spring.



Если идет снег, значит, весной будет много дождей.


Have you recently had a lot of rain fall?


Has there been a lot of rain recently?


Areas of the ocean which receive a lot of rain or close to the land tend to be less saline as the freshwater dilute the salts.



Области, которые получают много дождя или ближе к берегам, являются менее солеными, поскольку они разбавлены пресной водой.

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Перевод по словам

lot [adverb]

adverb: много, намного, гораздо

noun: много, лот, партия, масса, жребий, участь, судьба, доля, участок земли, партия товара

verb: дробить на участки, разбивать на партии, делить части, сортировать, бросать жребий, рассчитывать

  • an awful lot — очень много
  • benefited a lot from — выиграли много из
  • tool lot — много инструментов
  • dye lot — много красителя
  • i have a lot of work — У меня есть много работы
  • you have to kiss a lot — вы должны поцеловать много
  • you have to have a lot — Вы должны иметь много
  • for a lot of people — для многих людей
  • got a lot of fun — получил массу удовольствия
  • made a lot of friends — сделал много друзей

of [preposition]

preposition: из, о, от, об, для

  • a wealth of — богатство
  • of yore — времени
  • court of law — суд
  • ahead of time — досрочно
  • word of advice — слово совета
  • aperture of a door — дверной проем
  • man of business — деловой человек
  • productivity of land — производительность земли
  • put out of countenance — вычеркнуть лицо
  • corruption of — коррупция

rain [noun]

noun: дождь, град, поток, потоки, ручьи, капеж

adjective: дождевой

verb: литься, сыпать, лить, сыпаться

  • to rain cats and dogs — дождевые кошки и собаки
  • i love rain — я люблю дождь
  • singing in the rain — петь под дождем
  • Rain fell in sheets. — Дождь упал в листах.
  • rain break — дождь перерыв
  • rain protection — защита от дождя
  • rain season — сезон дождей
  • rain jet — дождь струя
  • prolonged rain — продолжительный дождь
  • with a chance of rain — с вероятностью дождя

Предложения с «lot of rain»

Speaking about the climate, I can’t help saying that all parts of the British Islands get a lot of rain in all seasons and the weather is generally changeable.

Говоря о климате, я не могу не сказать, что во всех частях Британских островов на протяжении года выпадает много осадков и погода обычно изменчива.

Yeah,a lot of rain. 4 inchespof snow up in the mountains.

Да, много дождей . В горах на 4 дюйма увеличился слой снега.

After, a long time after, there was a lot of rain.

Потом, прошло много времени, был очень сильный дождь .

There is not a lot of rain during the whole year.

В течение всего года выпадает не так уж много осадков.

It tends to rain here a lot in the summer.

Летом здесь часто идёт дождь .

There were two new marble markers in the brick-inclosed lot under the funereal cedars-so new that no rain had splashed them with red dust.

За кирпичной оградой, под темными кедрами, белели два новых мраморных надгробия — настолько новых, что дождь еще ни разу не успел забрызгать их красной глиной.

Now, nickel mining is a filthy business — a lot of sulfur and acid rain, but no matter.

Добыча никеля — это грязная работа, большое количество серы и кислотные пары, но неважно.

The rain doesn’t make it any easier to see far, and there’s a lot of timber out here in places.

За дождем плохо видно, да еще деревья кой — где заслоняют.

In the rain and the dark you think of a lot of things.

В темноте, в дождь , многое приходит в голову.

The biomass is a lot less than a rainforest as there is little rain.

Биомасса намного меньше, чем в тропическом лесу, так как там мало дождя .

These materials allow rain to soak into the ground through the spaces inherent in the parking lot surface.

Эти материалы позволяют дождю впитываться в землю через пространства, присущие поверхности автостоянки.

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The Weather

The condition of the atmosphere over a particular area is called the weather.

Weather vocabulary

Rain

Rain: drops of water that fall from clouds. A single drop of rain is called a raindrop. The total amount of rain is called rainfall. Rain can include:

Deluge

a sudden large amount of rain

Downpour

a heavy rain in a short time

Drizzle

a rain that falls in light drops

Hail

balls of ice that fall from the sky. Each of the balls of ice is called a hailstone.

Shower

a short period of rain

Sleet

partly frozen falling rain

Monsoon

heavy rain that falls in S Asia in the summer

Snow

soft, white pieces (called snowflake) of water ice that falls from clouds.

Rain can cause:

Flood

a large amount of water covering land which is usually dry

Puddle

a small amount of water on the ground

Wind

A natural movement of air as a result of atmospheric pressure is called the wind. The Wind can include:

Breeze

a light and gentle wind

Crosswind

the wind that is blowing across the direction of travel of a person or vehicle

Easterly

the wind that is blowing from the east

Northerly

the wind that is blowing from the north

Gale

a sudden blast of wind

Headwind

the wind that is blowing against the direction of travel of a vehicle

Tailwind

the wind that is blowing in the same direction of travel of a vehicle

Sirocco

a hot wind that comes from the Sahara Desert to southern Europe

Storms

A severe weather condition with strong wind, heavy rain, thunder, and lightning is called a storm. Storm can include:

Blizzard

a severe snowstorm

Cyclone

a powerful tropical storm rotating in a circular direction

Hurricane

a rapidly rotating storm, that occurs especially in the West Atlantic Ocean

Thunderstorm

a storm with thunder and lightning and sometimes heavy rain and strong winds

Tornado (twister)

a dangerous spinning cone-shaped column of air

Difference between tornado and twister

Tornado

Twister

The term used by meteorologists

Slang for tornado

Typhoon

a tropical cyclone that occurs especially in the West Pacific Ocean

Sky

The area above the surface of the Earth is called the sky. The sky can include:

  • The Sun: the star that gives the earth heat and light. 
  • Cloud: a grey or white mass of water in the sky. 
  • Fog: water droplets that form a thick cloud in the air above the land or the sea, reducing visibility.
  • Mist: thin fog that occurs when humid air cools rapidly.
  • Rainbow: a multicolored arch appearing in the sky when the sun shines through rain

Adjectives that describe the weather

Rainy

with comfortably high temperature; not hot or cold

Cold

with a very low temperature

Cloudy

with a lot of clouds

Clear

with a lot of sunlight

Stormy

with strong wind, heavy rain, thunder, and lightning

Misty

with a lot of wind

Showery

extremely cold; covered with ice

Drizzly

without moisture

Overcast

Learn Rainy Weather Vocabulary in English with the Infographic. This lesson shows many words and phrases that we use when talking about rainy weather vocabulary.

Phrases to Describe Rainy Weather

  • It’s raining.
  • It’s spitting.
  • It’s drizzling.
  • It’s been raining on and off all day.
  • It’s pouring.
  • It’s really coming down out there!
  • Take your umbrella. It looks like it’s going to rain.
  • I’ve had enough of all this rain!
  • We got caught in a downpour.
  • Let’s stay inside until the rain lets up
  • I got soaking wet.
  • The forecast calls for scattered showers.
  • It’s raining cats and dogs. (Rain Idioms)
  • It’s raining sideways.

Words Related to Rain

  • Heavy/ Constant/ Steady/ Pouring rain/ Downpour: a lot of rain in a short time
  • Light/ Gentle rain/ Drizzle: not heavy rain
  • Rainfall: the amount of rain that falls
  • Deluge: a severe flood
  • Rainstorm: a storm with heavy rain
  • A drop of rain/ a droplet/ a raindrop: a single drop of rain
  • Shower: a short period of rain or snow

Examples of Rainy Weather Vocabulary

Heavy rain

  • The heavy rain was the cause of the flood.

Downpour

  • We got caught in a torrential downpour.

Drizzle

  • A fine drizzle began to veil the hills.

Rainfall

  • The rainfall was measured over a three-month period.

Deluge

  • I got caught in the deluge on the way home.

Rainstorm

  • The rainstorm has made the road impassable.

A drop of rain

  • We’ve seen scarcely a drop of rain for over six months.

Shower

  • A cold shower always refreshes us in summer.

Pouring rain

  • We drove all the way through pouring rain.

Light rain

  • When the sun shines through light rain, it makes a rainbow.

Steady rain

  • steady rain began to fall.

Constant rain

  • The river was swelling rapidly with constant rain.

Rainy Weather Vocabulary | Infographic

Rainy Weather Vocabulary in English

Rainy Weather

Last Updated on February 5, 2021

WEATHER VOCABULARY IN ENGLISH

RAIN

Words Related to “rain” and Their Meanings:

Rain is drops of water from clouds.

Heavy / constant / steady /pouring rain or Downpour is a lot of rain in a short time.

Light / gentle rain or Drizzle means not heavy rain.

Rainfall is the amount of rain which falls.

Deluge is a severe flood.

Rainstorm is a storm with heavy rain.

A drop of rain / a droplet / a raindrop is a single drop of rain.

Rainbow is a curved shape of different colours seen in the sky.

Shower is a short period of rain or snow.

Words Related to “snow” and Their Meanings:

Snow  means atmospheric water vapor frozen into ice crystals and falling in light white flakes or lying on the ground as a white layer.

Heavy snow / deep snow is great amount of snow.

Light snow means not heavy snow.

Hail is small and hard balls of ice falling from the sky.

Sleet is a snow partly melted.

Wet snow means watery snow.

Melting snow means snow turing from the solid state to the liquid state.

Snowfall means a fall of snow.

Snowstorm is a heavy fall of snow, especially with a high wind.

Blizzard is a severe snowstorm with high winds and low visibility.

Frost is the thin, white layer of ice that forms when the air temperature is below the freezing point of water, especially outside at night.

Thaw means snow becoming liquid as a result of warming.

Slippery roads or surface means a surface difficult to hold firmly or stand on because it is smooth, wet, or slimy.

Snowflake is a small piece of snow that falls from the sky.

Snowdrift is a large mass of  snow heaped up by the wind.

Snow bank is a large pile of snow.

Ice is the water that has frozen and become solid.

Icicle is a hanging, tapering piece of ice formed by the freezing of dripping water.

Shower is a short period of rain or snow.

SUN

Words Related to “sun” and Their Meanings:

Blazing means very bright and hot. Blazing sun / sunshine ( adjective )

Sunshine / Sunlight is the light coming from the sun. ( noun )

Shiny means bright. ( adjective )

Sunrays / Sunbeams are lines of light shining from the sun. ( noun )

Bright means full of light.  Bright sun / sunshine ( adjective )

A patch of sunlight means a piece of sunlight. ( noun )

CLOUD

Words Related to “cloud” and Their Meanings

Cloudy means that the sky is completely covered by clouds, no view of blue sky. 

Overcast means that There are clouds in the sky, no light and sun.

Gloomy means dark or cloudy in a way that is unpleasant and makes it difficult to see.

WIND

Words Related to “wind” and Their Meanings:

Wind is a current of air moving approximately horizontally, especially one strong enough to be felt.

Breeze is a light wind.

Gentle wind is a light wind.

Blustery means the wind blowing strongly.

a gust of wind, a blast of wind, strong wind, high wind

gust and blast means a sudden strong wind.

strong or high wind means hard wind.

light wind means the wind blowing slightly.

Brisk wind means the wind blowing quickly and actively.

Piercing wind means the wind making you fell very cold.

Easterly / Westerly / Northerly / Southerly wind is a wind blowing from the east.

Hurricane / Whirlwind / Tornado is a violent wind that has a circular movement, especially in the West Atlantic Ocean.

Twister is used as a word instead of “tornado” in U.S.

Cyclone is a violent storm, especially in Southern Hemisphere.

Windstorm / Gale is a storm with very strong wind.

Typhoon is a tropical storm, especially in the West Pacific Ocean.

Dust storm is a mass of dust and sand that has been lifted from the ground in very dry areas such as deserts and that is carried by the wind.

Sandstorm is a strong wind in a desert carrying a large amount of sand.

Tropical Storm is a storm forming over tropical oceans.

Hurricane, typhoon, cyclone are the same. However, they have different names because they are in different regions which are mentioned above.

FOG

Words Related to “fog” and Their Meanings:

Fog / Haze / Mist is a weather condition in which very small drops of water come together to form a thick cloud close to the land or earth’s surface and it is hard to see.

Thick fog / Dense fog / Heavy Fog means having parts which are close together so that it is difficult to see well.

Patchy fog means fog only existing in some parts.

A blanket of fog means fog covering something completely with a thick layer.

Smog is a fog  combined with smoke and other atmospheric pollutants.

CLEAR

Words Related to “clear” and Their Meanings

Clear means that there are no clouds in the sky.

Sunny sky / Blue sky / Bright Sun has the same meaning with clear.

HOT

Words Related to “hot” and Their Meanings

Hot means having a high temperature.

Sweltering means extremely hot.

WARM

Warm means having a moderate degree of heat.

COLD

Words Related to “cold” and Their Meanings

Cold means at a low temperature.

Frost means  a weather condition in which the air temperature falls below the freezing point of water, especially outside at night. 

Frosty / Nippy / Freezing means very cold.

HUMID

Words Related to “humid” and Their Meanings

Humid / Damp / Moist / Wet / Dewy means containing extremely small drops of water in the air.

Dew is drops of water that form on the ground and other cool surfaces during the night, when atmospheric vapor condenses.

THUNDER / LIGHTNING

Words Related to “thunder / lightning” and Their Meanings

Thunder is a sudden loud noise that comes from the sky after a lightning flash due to the expansion of rapidly heated air.)

( a clap of thunder / a thunderclap is a sudden loud noise made by thunder.)

( a bolt of thunder / thunderbolt is a flash of lightning and the sound of thunder together.)

( Lightning / a flash of lightning /a bright flash of lightning / a bolt of lightning is  a flash of bright light in the sky that is produced by electricity moving between clouds or from clouds to the ground. )

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  • #1

Hi!I would like to ask the word «rain».
There are some expressions about «rain».
It rains.
There is a lot of rain.
We have a lot of rain.
Is it right ?
Is there other expression?Thanks in advance!

  • GreenWhiteBlue


    • #2

    I am sorry, but I do not understand your question. Are you asking if the word «rain» can be used in any other sentence? Yes, of course it can.

    KYC

    Senior Member


    • #3

    Sorry,I didn’t express it well.I will take an exam but I don’t understand if they are the same meaning or not.
    I mean if I would like to express the sentence»It rains».
    Alternatively,May I also say
    «There is a lot of rain».
    or «We have a lot of rain.» ?
    Thanks a lot!!!

    foxfirebrand


    • #4

    When we look outside and see rain, what we most often say is «it’s raining.»

    «It rains» would be used in a sentence like «it rains a lot in Oregon.»

    It rains (in general), it is raining (right now).

    «We’ve had a lot of rain lately.» Better, I think, than «there’s»— also, it doesn’t sound quite right in the present tense. Present progressive is better— «we’re having a lot of rain for this time of year.»
    .

    GreenWhiteBlue


    • #5

    To say «it rains», using the simple present third person of the verb «to rain», gives no indication of the amount of rain that falls. This does not have to mean that we have a lot of rain; it could be used for very little rain indeed:
    It rains in the Greenwhite Desert only once every twenty years, and then only for thirty seconds.

    KYC

    Senior Member


    • #6

    Thanks for your replies.
    One more question.
    Should I say
    There is a lot of rain this month. or There are a lot of rain this month .
    Thanks a lot

    GreenWhiteBlue


    • #7

    Should I say
    There is a lot of rain this month. or There are a lot of rain this month .

    «Rain» is usually not used as a countable noun, and so most of the time requires a singular verb. As it is, though, you are talking about rain that has fallen in the past, so I would say:
    There has been a lot of rain this month.
    or
    It has rained a lot this month.

    KYC

    Senior Member


    • #8

    Thanks for GreenWhiteBlue’s clarification.
    I wonder if it is idiomatic if I say:
    There was rain last night.
    We had rain last night.
    Thanks a lot!

    • #9

    Thanks for GreenWhiteBlue’s clarification.
    I wonder if it is idiomatic if I say:
    There was rain last night.
    We had rain last night.
    Thanks a lot!

    Yes to «We had rain last night», meaning «it rained here (with us, where we are) last night».

    No to «There was rain last night» — better to say «It rained last night».

    KYC

    Senior Member


    • #10

    Thanks for El escoces’s answer!:)

    • #11

    As far as treating «rain» as a plural noun, I think it’s possible but only in some limited circumstances. One can say «We had a heavy rain last week, and we had two others last month.» Therefore, «We have had several heavy rains recently. These rains were a great help in relieving the drought that had been so much trouble for the farmers.» But in reference to the general meteorological phenomenon of liquid precipitation, or to a single instance of raining (also called a «rainfall«), «rain» is singular and takes a singular verb, in whatever tense or other form is being used.

    KYC

    Senior Member


    • #12

    Thanks for all of your clarifications.:)
    I have another question about » rain».
    May I say:
    They had little rain last year.
    And I wonder if it is idiomatic.
    Thanks a lot!

    • #13

    Thanks for all of your clarifications.:)
    I have another question about » rain».
    May I say:
    They had little rain last year.
    And I wonder if it is idiomatic.
    Thanks a lot!

    This expression is pefectly correct, as it would be for any uncountable noun.

    KYC

    Senior Member


    • #14

    El escoces, Thanks a lot!:)

    KYC

    Senior Member


    • #15

    Hi! there:
    I have another question about the «rain»
    May I say:
    1.Do you have a lot of rain at your homedown?
    2 .It rains often at the city I live in.
    3 Was there any rain here last year?

    Also, I wonder if they are all idiomatic.
    Could you check them for me?
    Thanks a lot!

    • #16

    Hi! there:
    I have another question about the «rain»
    May I say:
    1.Do you have a lot of rain at your homedown? :cross:
    2 .It rains often at the city I live in. :cross:
    3 Was there any rain here last year? :tick:

    Also, I wonder if they are all idiomatic.
    Could you check them for me?
    Thanks a lot!

    Do you mean «your home town»?

    For rain + cities you need to use preposition «in»: Do you have (better, do you get) a lot of rain in your home town? And It rains often in the city in which I live (or It rains often in my home city).

    KYC

    Senior Member


    • #17

    El escoces,Thanks for your help again!:)

    Do you mean «your home town»?

    Yes, I typed it wrong.Sorry!:eek:

    • #18

    Thanks for all of your clarifications.:)
    I have another question about » rain».
    May I say:
    They had little rain last year.
    And I wonder if it is idiomatic.
    Thanks a lot!

    Yes, but you can also say «They had a little rain last year.» Without the article, you are suggesting that they had less, or a lot less, than normal: «The crops failed because they had little rain last year.» If there was a small amount of rain last night, you can say, «We had a little rain last night.» That would refer to a single rainfall that did not contain much water (the exact amount would depend on the location). For last year, the article would be appropriate in a sentence like, «The climate is so dry that it doesn’t rain for years on end; but they had a little rain last year.»

    KYC

    Senior Member


    • #19

    Hi there:
    I have another question about the word: rain.
    I wonder if I can say:
    1.It rained a little last night.
    2.We are having a lot of rain now.

    I also wonder if it’s idiomatic.
    Could you help me?
    Thanks a lot!

    Basil Ganglia


    • #20

    You can also use the adjective «rainy», as well as the comparatives «rainier» and «rainiest».

    Seattle has a rainy climate. Yesterday was a rainy day. This has been a rainy month, even though November is usually rainier than July. Mt. Wai’ale’ale on Kaua’i is perhaps the rainiest place on earth.

    KYC

    Senior Member


    • #21

    Thanks for Basil Ganglia’s input.
    I still would like to know if I may say the word» rain» like this:

    1.It rained a little last night.
    2.We are having a lot of rain now.

    Thanks a lot!

    • #22

    Hi there:
    I have another question about the word: rain.
    I wonder if I can say:
    1.It rained a little last night.
    2.We are having a lot of rain now.

    I also wonder if it’s idiomatic.
    Could you help me?
    Thanks a lot!

    Both are grammatically correct, idiomatic, and make sense.

    KYC

    Senior Member


    • #23

    Æsop,Thanks a lot!:)

    Aardvark01


    • #24

    Hi there:
    I have another question about the word: rain.
    I wonder if I can say:
    1.It rained a little last night.
    2.We are having a lot of rain now.

    I also wonder if it’s idiomatic.
    Could you help me?
    Thanks a lot!

    There are other idiomatic ways of expressing these events:

    X = when it rained
    1a. evening ————XX———->morning = we had a brief shower (light rain) last night
    1b. evening ——X————XX—> morning = we had a couple of showers last night.

    2a. evening ——XXXXXXXXXX——> morning = we had heavy rain/it poured down last night.
    2b. pastXXXXX->now->XXXXX—->future = we are having a lot of rain now/it is pouring down/ it is raining cats and dogs at the moment.

    Last edited: Dec 23, 2008

    KYC

    Senior Member


    • #25

    Hi!Aardvark01:
    Thanks for your input.
    I learn more by your sentences.Thanks!

    akimura


    • #26

    <<This thread has been merged with the older one>>

    Hi,

    The same question that I want to ask was posted, but doesn’t seem to be fully answered, several years ago here. Since I am trying to make sure whether there are any alternative phrases to mean,

    A. It rains a lot here in summer,
    B. We have a lot of rain here in summer, and
    C. There is a lot of rain here in summer,

    let me ask this: Can one or both of the following sentences be such alternative phrases?

    D. Rain falls a lot here in summer, and
    E. A lot of rain falls here in summer.

    <<Request for poll has been removed>>

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    • #27

    Hi,

    The same question that I want to ask was posted, but doesn’t seem to be fully answered, several years ago here. Since I am trying to make sure whether there are any alternative phrases to mean,

    A. It rains a lot here in summer,
    B. We have a lot of rain here in summer, and
    C. There is a lot of rain here in summer,

    let me ask this: Can one or both of the following sentences be such alternative phrases?

    D. Rain falls a lot here in summer, and
    E. A lot of rain falls here in summer.

    Yes, both these would have the same meaning as A, B and C. Another possibility is the following:

    F. There is a lot of rainfall here in summer.

    <<answer to supplementary question removed>>

    Last edited by a moderator: May 7, 2014

    akimura


    • #28

    Thank you Gavril for your reply. While the poll has been removed, I think I could say I learned that sentences A and B are more frequently used than the others.

    In the UK, we talk incessantly about the weather. In a recent study, 94% of British people admitted to having talked about the weather in the past six hours, and 38% in the last hour.

    There are a few reasons for this obsession;

    The first is that we have a LOT of weather. In my hometown of Alston in northern England, it rains or snows 244 days a year. That means more than 2 out of 3 days are rainy or snowy!

    rainy-alston-300x143 100 British Words for Rain

    In my hometown, around 66% of days are rainy/snowy

    Another reason is a bit less obvious. British people are famously inhibited. We have trouble starting conversations. But with a simple sentence like “Lovely weather for ducks, eh?”, we immediately start a conversation that everyone can get involved in, and agree with. Weather is our perfect icebreaker, and our doorway into deeper conversation.

    So it might not surprise you just how much language we have for talking about rain.
    Here are 100 words and phrases used in the various dialects of British English:

    I’ve used these emojis to show what type of rain it is:

    Light Rain: 🚿  Heavy Rain: 💧  With Wind: 💨  With lightning: ⚡

    With ice: ❄️  Brief Rain: ⏳  Sudden Rain: 😲

    So here you go, 100 words for rain!

    1. Ache and pain (Cockney rhyming slang)
    2. Bange (East Anglia), a sort of dampness in the air, w/ light rain 🚿
    3. Bleeter (Scottish) 💧 
    4. Bluffart (Scottish) ❄️ ⏳ 😲
    5. Blunk (Shropshire) 💧 
    6. Cloudburst 💧⚡😲
    7. Cow quaker 💧
    8. Dag of rain (Scottish) 🚿 
    9. Deluge 💧
    10. Dibble (Shropshire) Slow rain
    11. Dimpsey (West country) 🚿
    12. Downpour 💧
    13. Dreich (miserable weather, Scottish)
    14. Drencher 💧
    15. Dringey (Norflk, Suffolk, Lincolnshire)🚿
    16. Drisk (Cornwall) 🚿
    17. Driving rain 💨
    18. Drizzle 🚿
    19. Duke of Spain (Cockney rhyming slang)
    20. Flist (Scottish) 🚿
    21. Flurry
    22. Fox’s wedding (The West Country) 😲
    23. Haar (Cornish, Scotlish, N. English), drizzle from the sea 🚿
    24. Harle (Lincolnshire), drizzle from the sea 🚿
    25. Haster (England), a violent storm⚡
    26. Haud (Scottish) 😲
    27. Hemple (West Country) 🚿
    28. Hig (England)⚡
    29. Hurley Burley (England) 💧
    30. It’s beating down 💧
    31. It’s chucking it down 💧
    32. It’s coming down in buckets/bucketloads 💧
    33. It’s coming down in sheets 💧
    34. It’s coming down it torrents 💧
    35. It’s drumming down, heavy rain heard through a roof 💧
    36. It’s getting biblical out there 💧⚡
    37. It’s hammering (it) down 💧
    38. It’s henting (Cornwall) 💧
    39. It’s hossin (Cumbrian) 💧
    40. It’s hoyin it doon (N. E. England) 💧
    41. It’s lashing (it) down 💧
    42. It’s lattin (Shropeshire), Enough rain to make outdoor work difficult
    43. It’s letty (Somerset), Enough rain to make outdoor work difficult
    44. It’s luttering down 💧
    45. It’s maumy (N. English/Scottish) 🚿
    46. It’s pattering 🚿
    47. It’s peeing (it) down 💧
    48. It’s pelting (it) down 💧
    49. It’s pissing (it) down 💧
    50. It’s plothering down (Midlands and N. England) large droplets with no wind 💧
    51. It’s pouring/pouring down 💧
    52. It’s raining cats and dogs 💧
    53. It’s raining chair legs, painfully heavy rain 💧
    54. It’s raining like a cow reliving itself 💧
    55. It’s raining sideways 💨
    56. It’s raining stair rods, painfully heavy rain 💧
    57. It’s raining upwards, rain so heavy that it bounces 💧
    58. It’s siling/syling down (N. England) 💧
    59. It’s spitting 🚿
    60. It’s spluttering 🚿
    61. It’s sprinkling 🚿
    62. It’s stottin (N. England and Scottland) heavy rain that bounces 💧
    63. It’s teeming from the heavens (N. Irish) 💧
    64. It’s thrashing (it) down 💧
    65. It’s throwing it down 💧
    66. It’s tipping (it) down 💧
    67. It’s tippling (it) down 💧
    68. It’s yukken it doon (Cumbrian) 💧
    69. It’s trickling 🚿
    70. Kelsher, a heavy shower 💧 
    71. Liquid sunshine, sudden rain on a sunny day 😲
    72. Misla (Irish Traveller)
    73. Mizzle (N.Engis), misty drizzle 🚿
    74. Mochy weather (Scotish, N. Irish) 🚿
    75. Monsoon, heavy summer rain 💧 
    76. Mothery (Linconshire) 🚿
    77. Nice weather for ducks!
    78. Onslaught 💧 
    79. Peeggirin (Scottish) a stormy shower 💧 
    80. Plash (Northumbrian) 😲
    81. Pleasure and pain (Cockney rhyming slang)
    82. Plum shower (Scottish) 💧
    83. Posh (Shropshire) 💧
    84. Precipitation
    85. Rain
    86. Raining forks’tiyunsdown’ards (Lincolnshire) like it’s raining pitchforks 💧
    87. Scotch mist 🚿
    88. Sea fret (N. English) mizzle from the sea 🚿
    89. Shower
    90. Skew (Cornwall)
    91. Skite (Scottish) 🚿
    92. Sleet ❄️
    93. Smirr (Scottish) 🚿
    94. Smizzle (Scottish) 🚿
    95. Soaker 💧
    96. Soft weather (N. Irish) 🚿
    97. Squall  🚿
    98. Steaking 🚿
    99. The heavens have opened 😲
    100. The smoky smirr o rain (Scotland) 🚿
    101. The Wet
    102. Thunderstorm
    103. Torrent/Torrential 💧
    104. Yillen (Scottish) 🚿 💨

    Ok admittedly I got a bit carried away and went over the 100 mark, but there we go, 104 words for rain used in the UK!

    People have different experiences with rain; sometimes, it may be pleasant, or it can ruin an entire occasion that you had planned. In any case, you’ll need words to describe type of rain to convey your feelings or simply to describe the state of the weather.

    There are plenty of words like gentle, soothing, pattering, gloomy etc. which you can use to describe unpredictable rainy weather.

    Words to Describe Rainy and Windy Weather

    Following is a list of commonly used adjective words for describing rain and windy weather.

    Tipping down Drizzle Spitting
    Unsettling Excessive Pouring
    Bucketing down Downpour Teeming
    Torrential Strong Violent
    Dismal Gloomy Misty
    Sunshower Drenched Deluge
    Overcast Tepid Gentle
    Pattering Soothing Pounding

    Let’s have a look at some of the words with their sentence examples

    1. Windy: a word that describes a climate to be with a lot of wind

    Example: It was observed that despite the windy weather, the football team performed well.

    2. Stormy: a word that describes something with a lot of rain and strong wind.

    Example: The sea seemed to be stormy and the sailors decided to cut the path and return back to the shore.

    3. Breezy: this word describes a lot of light wind.

    Example: The cool breeze was blowing and he could see her hair spreading all over her beautiful face.

    4. Blustery: weather with strong and directional winds

    Example: The ship was sailing round and round with the blustery weather which made sailors afraid to sail to ship any further.

    5. Brisk: The word brisk is used to describe the weather that is fairly cold with a strong wind blowing. 

    Example: Milind saw that in brisk tall weather, the glossy leaves turn yellow, red, and finally russet brown.

    6. Wild: It shows that the weather is completely wild and has strong winds with a storm. 

    Example: It is a shrub, rather than a tree, and its size will be limited on the crags because of the wild weather conditions it has to endure.

    7. Unsettled:  With the unsettled weather, you can see a lot of changes (rain as well as wind) within a short period of time. 

    Example: The weather became completely unsettled as the wind kept blowing fast and in just one direction. 

    8. Fresh: It is probably in the morning cool fresh air that is fairly cold and blowing lightly. 

    Example: It was a beautiful garden and the missing lights sent more chills through her than the fresh wind picking up around her.

    9. Squally: It shows that the weather is showing changes with sudden strong very wind and rain drizzle.

    Example: Harman could see that the weather of the city was accompanied by a rapid temperature change and a squally wind that is capable of uprooting the trees.

    Quick Links

    1. Weather Vocabulary Words for Kids
    2. Hot and Cold Weather Idioms
    3. Common Weather Expressions in Spanish
    4. Proverb on Climate and Weather

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