In Australia we say ‘it’s pissing down’ when it’s raining very heavily, what do people in other parts of the world say?

[u/Cautious_Dragonfly93]

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[u/Important_Contest_64]

“It’s pishing doon” in Scotland

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"It's pussung dun" in New Zealand

[u/SweatyNomad → u/ISupportCrapTeams]

"It's pissing dahhn" London

[u/Muttley87 → u/SweatyNomad]

It's absolutely pissin' - Dublin

[u/Bibblegead1412 → u/Muttley87]

"The Dems are controlling the weather!!"- America

[u/bungopony → u/Bibblegead1412]

“Snowin again” - Canada

[u/Capable-Self-809 → u/bungopony]

In German it's: "Es pisst" (meaning it's pissing)

[u/Cat__03 → u/Capable-Self-809]

'Et schifft' in Nordrhein-Westfalen (which is fairly far west)

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“good thing this isn’t snow” in Minnesota

[u/amsleeper → u/Bibblegead1412]

It’s Joe Poseidon of course.

[u/rsn3 → u/Muttley87]

"Piss" - Sniper TF2

[u/Practical-Story-802 → u/Important_Contest_64]

Or "It's teeming doon" is a scottish term I've heard frequently over the years.

[u/Grouchy-Display-457 → u/Practical-Story-802]

In Appalachia, heavily populated by former Scots, they say, "it's pouring down the rain."

[u/littlerabbits72 → u/Important_Contest_64]

To be fair it's Scotland, chances are if it's not raining now then it will at some point later that day.

Hence the reason we probably have more words than most to describe it - it can be raining, pissing down, pishing down, skelping down, coming down like stair rods, bouncing, teeming, lashing, drizzly, pelting, stoating, smirry and I'm sure there are a few more I've missed.

With pretty much all of them, you end up drookit.

[u/HarryMonk → u/littlerabbits72]

I was up seeing my gran in Aberdeenshire years ago. She looked out the window and told me we shouldn't waste the good weather and get out and about.

I take a look and it's a grey, driech day and, whilst not pissing it down, was spitting.

Made me realise that our scales of what good and bad weather is cancelled differ quite a bit just in the UK.

[u/thejaysta4 → u/HarryMonk]

I’ve lived in Glasgow for the last 3 years and I realised that if you’re planning on doing something and it’s raining, just rug up and put a raincoat in and get on with it cos if you wait until it’s not raining then you’ll never fucking do it!

[u/mannishboy60 → u/Important_Contest_64]

"It's pure bouncin'" - Glasgow

[u/Betterthanbeer → u/Important_Contest_64]

Stoatin’

[u/Fluid_Mixture_6012]

Rìchni kareklopòdara in Greece, meaning "it's throwing chair legs".

[u/bicx → u/Fluid_Mixture_6012]

Do the Greeks have a rich history of abusing furniture parts or something?

[u/CoolTom → u/bicx]

I’m pretty sure they had a lot of trouble with the ottomans, and other hostile pieces of furniture

[u/Potikanda → u/CoolTom]

That comment deserves gold, but I'm poor... 🏅🏆

[u/mrmasturbate → u/bicx]

Greeks generally have very creative and funny swears especially when you translate them literally

[u/BirbsAreSoCute → u/mrmasturbate]

That's also how it is in Latin as well

[u/cosmicdicer → u/Fluid_Mixture_6012]

And when it's really heavy rain with thunderstorms we go mythological "Zeus is fucking"

[u/hairypea → u/cosmicdicer]

No idea if this is true but I believe it simply because i used to live there and god damn the greeks are funny

[u/purinikos → u/hairypea]

This particular expression is also used when shit hits the fan. Very versatile.

[u/flyingmops → u/Fluid_Mixture_6012]

In danish we say "det står ned i stænger" which means rods or bars are really coming down.

[u/Beverley_Leslie]

It's bucketing, it's lashing, it's pissing down ~ Ireland

[u/geekpeeps → u/Beverley_Leslie]

We use bucketing in Australia too. It’s for PG audiences.

[u/KMAVegas → u/geekpeeps]

A friend of mine tells the story of her young son describing a storm - “and the rain was fucketing and fucketing down!!” That’s when they realised they needed to watch their language more around him.

[u/Snappysnapsnapper → u/Beverley_Leslie]

My Irish friends say it's lashing buckets.

[u/Dan83791]

In England we say “oh for fucks sake, its raining again”

[u/KeysUK → u/Dan83791]

'It's chucking it down"

[u/illtakeontheworld → u/KeysUK]

For light rain, "it's spitting"

[u/Princes_Slayer → u/illtakeontheworld]

‘It’s that really light mist rain that gets you wet’….

[u/WallStLegends → u/KeysUK]

Do yall ever throw in a “proper” in there too?

[u/polarphantom → u/WallStLegends]

Of course, normal interaction:

"What's the weather like?"

"Fuck me it's proper chuckin it down"

[u/TotoCocoAndBeaks → u/Dan83791]

Also, 'it's pissing it down' pretty common variation of all the 'pissing down' etc. (around UK)

Didn't even realise the expression was ever used without the 'it'.

[u/Iamleeboy → u/TotoCocoAndBeaks]

Yeah I have only ever heard people say it’s pissing it down.

I’d also say it’s the most used description I have heard as an adult. It used to be it’s raining cars and dogs when I was a kid or maybe it’s chucking it down when kids are around

Edit - just noticed my bad typo. Leaving it so the comments below make sense! It is indeed cats and dogs

[u/FobbingMobius → u/Iamleeboy]

Cars and dogs? Ouch! Don't go outside you'll step in a poodle!

[u/WattsonMemphis → u/Dan83791]

“Oh for fucks sake, it’s still raining” there I fixed it

[u/Cautious_Dragonfly93 → u/Dan83791]

This is my favourite reply so far! I loved London but it was definitely a shock coming from Australia to three weeks of almost nonstop rain. It definitely made me appreciate the sun when it finally came out

[u/chalk_in_boots → u/Cautious_Dragonfly93]

I've lived in both, and the weird thing for me isn't the difference in constancy, but the nature of rain. 24/7 drizzle vs. 2 hours of "I might drown standing on the footpath".

[u/HumanBeing7396 → u/chalk_in_boots]

A friend of mine from Nigeria says that when he moved to the UK, his first impression was “It doesn’t really rain, and it doesn’t really not rain”.

[u/4_feck_sake → u/HumanBeing7396]

A fine rain that soaks you through.

[u/intolauren → u/HumanBeing7396]

This is SUCH an accurate way of putting it 😂

[u/jugsmacguyver → u/HumanBeing7396]

I spoke to a lady from South Africa and she said she was not prepared to be perpetually damp when she moved here 😂

[u/DatJellyScrub → u/chalk_in_boots]

Sydney gets twice as much rainfall annually than London. But half of that could happen in a few days 🤣

[u/nagrom7 → u/DatJellyScrub]

Up north in the tropics, we get both a shitload of rain, as well as it all coming within the span of a month or two every year. Shit up here has to be very flood resistant, as such when we do get flooding, it's because the rain we get in a 24 hour period isn't measured in millimetres, but just metres.

[u/dragonunicornmummy → u/chalk_in_boots]

I can confirm the accuracy of this assessment. I've looked like I've fallen into a swimming pool after just a few minutes of rain in Australia.

[u/Hairy_S_TrueMan]

"Wow, it's really coming down" - northeast US

[u/tommytraddles → u/Hairy_S_TrueMan]

"We really needed this."

[u/HumanBeing7396 → u/tommytraddles]

It will do the garden good

[u/Spectre1-4 → u/HumanBeing7396]

Almost makes you want to settle down with a good book

[u/turbotaco23 → u/Spectre1-4]

No one knows how to drive in the rain

[u/Tor_2ga → u/turbotaco23]

Oh, the plants are gonna love this

[u/DangerousKidTurtle → u/turbotaco23]

The FIRST thing I think when I see it’s raining is about whether or not I have to drive anywhere that day.

Then a mixture of “oh California really needs this right now” and “goddamnitalltohell”

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Dammit Phyllis

[u/ForceGhost47 → u/Spectre1-4]

Gamer weather

[u/Jaded_Houseplant → u/tommytraddles]

Common phrase in the prairies. We’re always worried about the farmers!

[u/lockthecatbox → u/Jaded_Houseplant]

New England too.

[u/bonos_bovine_muse → u/Jaded_Houseplant]

Common phrase from the Rockies West, too, where there seem to be a decent chance of the whole region burning to ash and blowing away one of these days.

I mean, half of LA’s on fire in friggin’ January?? We need it, and a lot of us haven’t gotten it yet this season!

[u/vdhsnfbdg → u/tommytraddles]

It’ll break the humidity

[u/banjo_hero → u/vdhsnfbdg]

the humidity takes this as a challenge, and its generally up to it

[u/hangrykangarooo → u/Hairy_S_TrueMan]

“It’s raining cats and dogs”

[u/Illustrious_Bat3189 → u/hangrykangarooo]

they're raining the cats, they're raining the dogs

[u/Jed1M1ndTr1ck → u/Illustrious_Bat3189]

They're raining the pets of the people that live there!

[u/MysteriousLeader6187 → u/hangrykangarooo]

Don't step in a poodle!

[u/Soggy-Possibility261 → u/Hairy_S_TrueMan]

Wow, it's really coming down out there

[u/GapAppropriate7454 → u/Soggy-Possibility261]

“Never seen it go up” -my grandmother every time I said that

[u/SqueakerChops → u/GapAppropriate7454]

Yoink

[u/Jaeger716 → u/Hairy_S_TrueMan]

"It's pouring" Edit: Massachusetts

[u/Kra_gl_e → u/Hairy_S_TrueMan]

This comment and everything attached to it sounds like an NPC's dialogue.

"Wow, it's really coming down. We really needed that."

"Wow, it's really pouring out there. It'll be good for the garden."

[u/toxicshocktaco → u/Kra_gl_e]

“Good sleeping weather.”

[u/Pinkhoney76 → u/Hairy_S_TrueMan]

Absolutely and sometimes "it's coming down in buckets"

[u/Due_Scale281 → u/Hairy_S_TrueMan]

We tell the old man to stop snoring, he bumped his head pretty bad when he went to bed last night. We just couldn't get him up in the morning!

[u/asianman1998]

"Raining cats and dogs" -Canada. Parts of US probably

[u/Deep-Collection-2389 → u/asianman1998]

Definitely my part of the US.

[u/Unhappy_Mountain9032 → u/Deep-Collection-2389]

Same here, or "It's pouring." Southeastern US.

[u/dacraftjr → u/Unhappy_Mountain9032]

Midwest US checking in. It’s “pouring” here, too.

[u/fish_whisperer → u/dacraftjr]

Also MidWest. I’ll add we sometimes say “it’s raining buckets,” or “it’s dumping buckets.”

[u/ARussianW0lf → u/dacraftjr]

Very common in California as well

[u/martymcgoo → u/asianman1998]

I went outside and stepped in a poodle…

[u/vc-10 → u/asianman1998]

The UK too.

[u/jumpandtwist → u/asianman1998]

From Maryland - can confirm.

[u/cqs1a → u/asianman1998]

In Germany it's dogs and cats - "Es regnet Hunde und Katzen"

According to the Die Hard movie.

[u/dbzmah → u/cqs1a]

No. In Die Hard 3, the German merc is trying to use an American term, but says it incorrectly, which gives him away. It's similar to the "three whiskey" gaff in Inglorious Bastards.

[u/jenglasser → u/asianman1998]

I'm also from Canada, we use the term "it's pissing rain" where I am, but it means the opposite ... that it's only drizzling not pouring buckets.

[u/ShannieD → u/jenglasser]

Also Canada. Pissing rain means pouring to me.

[u/Marzipanjam → u/ShannieD]

Yes, pissing is heavy rain. Can confirm. I'm Canadian from Southern ontario 

[u/Connect-Speaker → u/ShannieD]

Yeah. ‘Pissing down rain‘ or ‘pissing rain’ is heavy.

very light rain…‘it’s spitting’ ‘it’s drizzling’

northwestern Ontario, but heard in south-central GTA too.

[u/saltysleepyhead → u/ShannieD]

Same, I’m from the lower mainland. Pissing is a pour not a drizzle.

[u/fozard → u/jenglasser]

I’m also from Canada and pissing down rain means heavy rain where I am.

[u/hailbopp25]

Nice day for the ducks

[u/bluerog → u/hailbopp25]

This. Or "it's duck weather."

[u/ImBengee]

In Quebec (Canada but French) we say

« Il pleut à boire debout » wich translates to « It’s raining so you can drink standing up »

[u/EmpCod → u/ImBengee]

Good one!

I might add in Quebec we tend to say "il mouille".

Essentially replacing "it's raining" by "it's wetting".

[u/fefiane → u/EmpCod]

Y mouille à siaux!

[u/EveMarie77 → u/fefiane]

I second that « Y mouille à scieaux », meaning « it wets like buckets ».

[u/MotherOfThePaws → u/ImBengee]

Or « Il pleut des cordes » which mean it’s raining ropes.

[u/RedditUser000aaa]

Vettä tulee kuin Esterin perseestä "Water's pouring down like from Esteri's ass", I have no idea why this is a saying here in Finland

ETA to add country, never make posts half-dead.

[u/Alx-McCunty → u/RedditUser000aaa]

Esteri is a manufacturer and a brand of water pumps, widely used for example in fire trucks.

[u/GreedyLibrary → u/Alx-McCunty]

Here i was expecting like a goddess or historical figure.

[u/_missfoster_ → u/GreedyLibrary]

Oh no, we're nothing if not practical. It's our Nordic neighbors that like all the ancient god-stuff and such.

[u/I7I7I7I7I7I7I7I → u/_missfoster_]

Finnish has plenty of ancient god-stuff in the language. 

[u/TimoZ → u/Alx-McCunty]

The saying is actually older than the pump company.

"Aamulehti yritti perjantaina ansiokkaasti selvittää, mistä tulee Esterin ja hänen ahterinsa märkä maine. Lopullista vastausta ei löytynyt. Mikä on syy, mikä seuraus, on aina vaikea päätellä.

Tunnetaan Veikko Nummela Oy:n vuodesta 1968 valmistama Esteri-sammutusvesipumppu, jonka palomiehet ottivat omakseen, ja heidät tunnetusti tunnetaan reippaista kielenliikkeistä ja letkeistä letkuista. Sanonta on kuitenkin vanhempi."

[u/Dibblidyy → u/RedditUser000aaa]

According to google, the old folk (vanha kansa) used to think it rains heavily on esteri's day (16.5). Don't know any other meaning. The esteri water pumps mentioned below were likely named after the saying.

[u/KatVanWall → u/Dibblidyy]

I love the idea that a water pump company was named after some kind of god whose arse apparently dispensed water 😂

[u/tyas1204]

Het regent pijpenstelen - The Netherlands Which means something along the lines of: it is raining pipe stems

Don’t ask me where it originates from

[u/Don_Frika_Del_Prima → u/tyas1204]

Het regent ouwe wijven - Belgium.

It's raining old women.

Don’t ask me where it originates from

Exactly the same for this one.

[u/tyas1204 → u/Don_Frika_Del_Prima]

That one is actually from the saying ‘hey regent oude wijven met klompen aan’. Meaning it rains so hard it makes the same loud sound as somebody walking on clogs

[u/patxy01 → u/Don_Frika_Del_Prima]

Au sud, on dit plutôt "il pleut comme vache qui pisse"

"It's raining like a pissing cow." -Belgium, again

[u/FleurCannon_ → u/tyas1204]

or "het komt met bakken uit de hemel"

or, my favourite: "het is echt kut weer"

[u/ComteDuChagrin → u/FleurCannon_]

or, "zeikweer" (piss weather)

[u/censored_username → u/FleurCannon_]

And also the simpler "Het stort" (it's crashing), "het giet" (it's pouring), "het hoost" (it's bailing).

Gee why o why do we have so many words for it raining.

[u/kell96kell → u/tyas1204]

Yeah or takkeweer (no translation available im afraid)

[u/Whosurmommabear → u/kell96kell]

Branch weather 😂

[u/Mr_Lumbergh]

“Holy shit there’s water coming out of the sky!

Arizona, for any amount.

[u/Periphia → u/Mr_Lumbergh]

"We need the Moischure" -Colorado

[u/TwoPlanksOnPowder → u/Periphia]

Namoiste🙏

[u/Whelpseeya → u/Mr_Lumbergh]

We really needed it

[u/adventuressgrrl → u/Mr_Lumbergh]

And you forgot, “it’s smells so good!” Because the desert smells magical when desert plants get hit with water, especially creosote.

[u/Kayak_Nana009]

I once heard a weatherman call a heavy rain a gullywhumper, loved it.

[u/Sportyj → u/Kayak_Nana009]

I’ve heard heavy rain referred to as “gully washers.” So similar!

[u/Revolutionary-Cod444]

Aussies also say "MARG! THE RAINS ARE EEYA!

[u/luke_xr → u/Revolutionary-Cod444]

Great marketing when I can picture them eating the corn on the tin roof, havnt seen that ad for atleast 20 years.

Corn ad: https://youtu.be/MdxfurkPuTo?si=8DoXfkSfJlh4DzpW

[u/nagrom7 → u/luke_xr]

NOT HAPPY JAN!

[u/VellhungtheSecond → u/Revolutionary-Cod444]

Despite that old mate was sitting on the verandah looking at nothing other than desert and blue skies

[u/jadenotthestone]

"it comes down as God sends it" or "all hell is falling". I am from Italy, but I think that these are more dialectal terms of my region, in general we use the word "diluvia" that is translated with "it's pouring"

[u/DiegoFerra → u/jadenotthestone]

I was thinking, mmmm it's the same in Italian, then I read you're from Italy

[u/Inside-Beyond-4672]

It's pouring or it's raining cats and dogs.

[u/eamonious → u/Inside-Beyond-4672]

Surprised I had to scroll this far for “it’s pouring,” that to me is the standard USA phrase. hence the related phrase, “when it rains it pours”.

“It’s really coming down out there”, “it’s raining cats and dogs,” “it’s sheeting,” are also used, but they’re all some distance behind that.

[u/Free_ → u/eamonious]

Same, I was surprised "it's pouring" isn't at the top, that's like the go-to phrase here in the south US. I've never heard "it's sheeting" but I've definitely heard "it's coming down in sheets", also "it's coming a monsoon".

[u/LotusCobra → u/Free_]

Same here. I wonder if people feel this is not even a "phrase" and equivalent to literally just saying "it's raining"?

[u/Mika56]

Il pleut comme vache qui pisse - it's raining like a cow's pissing (France)

[u/ScrotalSmorgasbord → u/Mika56]

Heard “raining harder than a cow pissing on a flatrock” a few times when I lived in Appalachia in the US so that’s kinda neat.

[u/OpenScore]

Po bie shi me gjyma - It's raining like someone is pouring from the water jugs.

Albania.

Edit: 1. Gjym is a metal vesel to carry water. So water jugs were the closest i could think of.

1. Literal translation would be: It's raining wth water jugs.

[u/peturd3]

I once heard somebody say ‘it’s raining ropes’ never heard it before or since, said he picked it up while living in France

[u/Veeshanee → u/peturd3]

"Il pleut des cordes" (=it's raining ropes),

"il pleut des trombes /des trombes d'eau" (= it's a downpour of water),

"il drache" (same but for the Nord, french north county region where you speach ch'ti, a dialect patois),

"il pleut comme vache qui pisse" (= it's raining like a pissing cow)

[u/CrustyHumdinger → u/Veeshanee]

I love the pissing cows saying

[u/Defiant-Traffic5801 → u/peturd3]

Yes, in France they also say 'it rains like pissing cows'

[u/Back2Straight]

“It’s pissing down” Wales

[u/ukhamlet → u/Back2Straight]

It's summer in Swansea

[u/bluejackmovedagain → u/ukhamlet]

Summer is when you know it's rain, Winter is when it's so windy that you can't tell if it's rain or if the sea is blowing in your face. 

[u/theplaneflyingasian]

California: “thank fucking god”

[u/amroth62 → u/theplaneflyingasian]

Hoping it pisses down for California.

[u/Far-Cockroach-8057 → u/amroth62]

But not too much, don’t want mud slides

[u/theplaneflyingasian → u/Far-Cockroach-8057]

My original comment was going to be “thank fucking god oh shit OH SHIT NO TOO MUCH TOO MUCH”

But I didn’t think anyone would think that far into it. You’re definitely right though haha

[u/littletrashpanda77 → u/theplaneflyingasian]

"We really needed this"

[u/liziphone]

It’s raining again but we don’t have to shovel it. Vancouver Island.

[u/DiotimaJones]

It’s raining, it’s pouring, the Old Man is snoring.

[u/Captain3leg-s → u/DiotimaJones]

Bumped his head and went to bed and couldn't wake up in the morning.

Childhood rhymes are always darker as an adult.

[u/Efarm12 → u/Captain3leg-s]

I learned it as didn’t get up till the morning.

[u/haha_supadupa]

Lithuania: pila kaip is kibiro. “Pouring like from the bucket”

[u/AreYouItchy]

Seattle, It’s Tuesday.

[u/Xanosaur → u/AreYouItchy]

also in Vancouver, BC: we don't acknowledge the rain, we acknowledge when it stops raining.

if we do mention the rain, it's because it's "pouring"

[u/justadrtrdsrvvr → u/Xanosaur]

Are umbrellas common there. In Oregon most natives will just put their head down and trudge through the rain, not bothering with an umbrella. I don't think I've ever owned one, although my kids talked me into buying one for each of them, then promptly broke them within a day or two and have yet to get new ones.

[u/Pwnsacrifice → u/justadrtrdsrvvr]

I can't speak for Vancouver, but further up the coast in Prince Rupert, we could always tell the tourists from locals, because the tourists had umbrellas (which were quickly rendered useless).

[u/Andrewpruka → u/Pwnsacrifice]

Same with Portland, Oregon. Every winter I’ll see an umbrella in a public garbage can. A Portlander was born on that day.

[u/BassmanOz → u/justadrtrdsrvvr]

From being in holiday in Seattle it seems to be the case there also. I’m pretty sure it rained every day we were there and my wife insisted we buy an umbrella. You would think in a place where it rains a lot they would be everywhere but it took us a while to track one down.

[u/ir_da_dirthara → u/justadrtrdsrvvr]

They're common in the city, especially in the business district downtown (gotta keep the suits dry!). And there's a unspoken code of etiquette for using them, that does separate the locals from the tourists and new arrivals. 

But most of us have proper outerwear for the weather we get, and it's not a big deal to get a little damp most of the time. Personally, I break out the umbrella when I'm carrying something in a bag that I need to keep dry, otherwise my raincoat is more than enough.

[u/Riccma02]

It’s coming down in sheets

NE USA

[u/Gogo_McSprinkles]

"it's really coming down out there" is something I hear a lot in Pennsylvania

[u/whispysteve]

In 70s UK it was “Raining cats and dogs”.

My Dad managed to get me to believe the Japanese say it’s “Raining Datsun Cogs”.

That joke has aged like fine milk.

[u/Successful_Sense_742]

If it's raining and the Sun is out, "The devil is beating his wife."

[u/del6699 → u/Successful_Sense_742]

We call that a sun shower.

[u/Cautious_Dragonfly93 → u/Successful_Sense_742]

Wow where are you from?

[u/Successful_Sense_742 → u/Cautious_Dragonfly93]

Virginia.

[u/CryoEnix]

It's raining old people and sticks - Wales.

But we also say it's pissing down.

[u/Drynapples]

We say the same in England

[u/SamuelLCalrissian]

“It’s like a bull pissing on a flat rock out there.” - Sharing news of heavy rain in Texan

[u/chessplodder → u/SamuelLCalrissian]

I had always heard it as "raining like a cow peeing on a flat rock", and that stuck because the females do it faster and from a higher location.

[u/TurtleRockDuane → u/chessplodder]

“Raining like a cow pissing on a flat rock”
Is how I always heard it, as the definitive version.

[u/HoneyBunchesOfGoats_ → u/SamuelLCalrissian]

Came here to see if cow pissing on a flat rock was here. North Central Texas. Tyfys

[u/newmanbeing → u/SamuelLCalrissian]

Such imagery! This is amazing!

[u/IceThese3219]

"Its pissing like shit" in East Berlin, Germany.. and i think that's beautiful haha

[u/InnovativeFarmer]

"Torrential downpour" is news speak that made its way into common language. "Raining sheets", "its pouring", and the understated - "its really coming down" all mean its raining heavily.

[u/XYooper906]

A toad-strangler.

[u/Bheegabhoot]

In Hindi speaking parts of north India we say “ghamasan baarish” which means fierce rain..

[u/tato64]

Translates to something like "Turds are falling pointing down" Argentina

[u/Weird_Comment4577]

"it's pouring" in canada

[u/SiSkr]

In Poland, we say: - It's pounding with frogs (Wali żabami) - It's pouring like from a bucket (Leje jak z cebra)

[u/parahyba]

Brasil: Tá chovendo canivetes. "it's raining Swiss Army Knives"

[u/WasteStudio2]

Det øser ned! 🇩🇰

It’s pouring down

[u/KN_Knoxxius → u/WasteStudio2]

Another good one is "Det står ned i stænger" which is hard to translate so it makes sense but could be done as "its coming down in straight lines" or "its coming down like rods", it doesn't have the same impact in english.

[u/Illustrious-Towel-45]

"The bottom fell out" southern USA.

[u/CosmeticBrainSurgery]

Supposedly, long ago when a lot of houses had thatch roofs, pets would lie on the roof and sleep in the sun. If a rain shower came along and started pouring, the thatch became too slippery and the cats and dogs would slide down and fall off the roof.

That's where "It's raining cats and dogs" supposedly came from, but I don't know if it's true.

[u/Willing-Stuff6802 → u/CosmeticBrainSurgery]

I got the visual. Now it's true in my mind

[u/Scary_Cantaloupe_682]

Here in Canada, I usually say, "It's pouring"

[u/hannaeus]

We say "Es plästert" (no translation for this word") and sometimes people say "It's raining out of buckets" (west Germany)

[u/Odelaylee → u/hannaeus]

„Es regnet Bindfäden“ („It’s raining twine“)

[u/deerHoonter → u/hannaeus]

"Es schüttet" and "es pieselt" I do know, but "es plästert" is new to me, but I'm from East Germany, so that makes sense.

[u/H1ghs3nb3rg → u/deerHoonter]

"Es pieselt" refers to light rain while "Es pisst" means heavy rain. Both terms mean "it's pissing" but the latter is a more crude expression so it refers to more severe rain.

[u/yoshi_in_black → u/H1ghs3nb3rg]

There's also "es schifft" which also means it's pissing afaik

[u/Monkeychow21 → u/hannaeus]

Or even more local "et is am plästern". Don't discount the rheinische Verlaufsform.

[u/damnitineedaname]

It's piss pouring rain. Appalachia in the U.S.

[u/Oaktown98]

We say „Es pisst“ or „Es schüttet“ in Germany

[u/fern-grower]

It's fucking raining again/still. England.

[u/Eckzilla]

"Pissing doon" Scotland