pelt 'rain heavily' snow 'fall as snow' sprinkle 'rain gently' spit 'rain gently' spatter 'rain gently' drizzle 'rain lightly' rain 'precipitate as rain' stream 'rain heavily' rain buckets 'rain heavily' mizzle 'rain lightly' sleet 'precipitate as a mixture of rain and snow' shower down 'rain abundantly' pitter-patter 'rain gently' rain cats and dogs 'rain heavily' fall 'fall from clouds' rain down 'precipitate as rain' hail 'precipitate as small ice particles' precipitate 'fall from clouds' come down 'fall from clouds' pour 'rain heavily' shower 'rain abundantly' patter 'rain gently'
Put on your rain coat-- it's pouring outside! It has only sprinkled, but the roads are slick It hailed for an hour It was snowing all night If the temperature rises above freezing, it will probably sleet If it rains much more, we can expect some flooding rain, snow and sleet were falling Vesuvius precipitated its fiery, destructive rage on Herculaneum When it drizzles in summer, hiking can be pleasant Meteors showered down over half of Australia
Examples from VerbNet
It was pelting with rain. It's raining cats and dogs. It's raining.
Examples from SemCor
Or you could wish your daddy would really do it- kill Gratt_Shafer like he said when you all_the_time, all_along, could feel the nerve draining out of him like air out of a punctured tire when you are on a muddy road alone and it is raining and at night. After heavy rains and an onslaught of mice, snow fell on October 15, 1825, and remained on the ground through a winter so cold that the ice on the Red was five feet thick. He was mildly surprised to find it was snowing. Imagine that there is a blizzard over Pennsylvania, but instead of snowing snow, it snows peas; so we get the whole state covered with peas, about four feet deep. Twenty minutes after the interruption, although it was still raining, the play was resumed at the point in the fourth act where it had been stopped. As`` Much Ado'' turned serious while the insipid Claudio rejected Hero at the altar, a sprinkle began to fall. Rain of near cloudburst proportions had fallen for three full days and it was still raining on the morning of Friday, November 4, 1927, when officials of the Post_Office_Department 's Railway_Mail_Service realized that their distribution system for Vermont had been almost totally destroyed overnight. It might have rained, any time; only- it did not. It had always seemed to rain there, and even the grass was gray. With the spring rains the flow rose rapidly infiltration in open sewers. A third wrote that it was`` raining like poring peas on a rawhide''. Now there was no work in the fields, nor would there be till it rained, and she did not know where he went. The teeth will rain from his mouth like pebbles, his wife will make him cocu with fishmongers, and a trolley_car will grow in his stomach. It snowed softly, silently, an undulating interruption of his vision against the night sky. While he talked you would trade being a West_Tennessee farmer for being anything in the whole damned world, no_matter if it had, in six weeks, rained enough to wet_a_rat 's_ass. It snowed continuously, but quietly, evenly. It was nothing to him if rain fell and nobody came. Thus the unstressed it of it rarely snows here gets its significance from its use with snows: nothing can snow snow but`` it''. `` That curb parking is undependable and annoying, particularly when it rains'', he said. Adam watched his own hands make the caressing, anxious movement that, when rain falls and nobody comes, and ruin draws_close like a cat rubbing against the ankles, has been the ritual of stall vendors, forever. Thus in a context in which there has been discussion of snow but mention of local conditions is new, dominant stress will probably be on here in it rarely snows here, but in a context in which there has been discussion of local weather but no mention of snow, dominant stress will probably be on snows. `` Lookit that come_down, willya'', said the man, scratching himself, yawning. It was a clear night and it was raining!