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How to Say "Heavy Rain" in English

3 ways to talk about heavy rain weather in English — from tourist-friendly to local fluency.

Tourist Simple survival phrases anyone can say
It's raining very hard.
Simple intensifier
Expat Natural conversational sentences
It's pouring out there, stay inside if you can.
Natural warning sentence
Local Idioms and expressions that sound native
It's coming down in buckets - absolute madness out there!
coming down in buckets = heavy rain idiom
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