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plural downpours
A heavy rain. quotations examples
I left Inverness on a Saturday afternoon in July in a steady downpour of rain.
1951 January, H. A. Vallance, “Kyle of Lochalsh Revisited”, in Railway Magazine, page 14
third-person singular simple present downpours, present participle downpouring, simple past and past participle downpoured
(intransitive) To pour down; rain heavily. quotations examples
It started to downpour, so Billy and I made our way back to our house, with Scotty following—or so I thought.
2002, Patricia Koretchuk, Chasing the comet: a Scottish-Canadian life - Page 211