downpour

[ doun-pawr, -pohr ]

/ ˈdaʊnˌpɔr, -ˌpoʊr /

a heavy, drenching rain.

Origin of downpour

First recorded in 1805–15; down¹ + pour

Then the air suddenly turns still, the downpour stops, and the sky transforms from grey to turquoise.

Want to Write a Book? Go to Iceland |Adam LeBor |May 26, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Noting that a downpour has ended, Ringo gets a roar of laughter when he quips “I just said stop and it did.”

Ringo Starr Is Selling His Pictures and Donating the Proceeds to Charities |Blake Gopnik |June 26, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
Last week, the distant rumblings became a downpour after the dismissal of an early favorite, Pia Toscano.

The American Idol Implosion |Richard Rushfield |April 12, 2011 |DAILY BEAST
The downpour rapidly grew heavier, accompanied by lightning and thunder.

The Meadow-Brook Girls by the Sea |Janet Aldridge

The people smiled happily in all their discomfort from the downpour.

The Torrent |Vicente Blasco Ibaez
They saw no signs of watch-fires, for these would long since have been quenched by the downpour.

With Lee in Virginia |G. A. Henty
Columbia was struck by a severe electric storm accompanied by a downpour of rain on Tuesday evening.

The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado |Logan Marshall
The downpour was increasing, and beating now a regular tattoo upon the gutter-way.

The Devil Doctor |Sax Rohmer

downpour

/ (ˈdaʊnˌpɔː) /

a heavy continuous fall of rain