0 water that falls from the sky in small drops -- lluvia
heavy rain
1 If it rains, water falls from the sky in small drops. -- llover
It was raining all weekend.
2 water that falls from the clouds -- lluvia [ feminine, singular ]
3 (of water) to fall from the clouds -- llover
It’s been raining hard all afternoon. Ha estado lloviendo fuerte toda la tarde.
4 stopped because of rain -- cancelar por lluvia
5 rained out -- cancelar por lluvia
The seventh is disaster prediction and management: earthquake forecasting, assessing in advance the quantum of rain for particular cloud conditions.
The exceptional amount of rain which has fallen over the last few days has served to offset the prevailing drought of the past year.
A long dry period was followed by torrential rains.
Unfortunately, the weather was dreadful - black clouds, rain, lightning, storms - and the plane began to toss about.
Instead, the scenario is exactly as it was described just recently: full of storms, rain and floods.
The forecast says rain, so you take the umbrella, and in the end it maybe spits a little, but there is definitely no real rain.
Floods such as these have become extremely common over the past few years – flash floods caused by heavy rain in a particular area.
One reason is the rain, of course, but another is that no measures to retain this water temporarily have been taken in the upper river basin.
