They say that Eskimos have a 100 words for snow. As a native of Seattle, I wonder how many words for rain I know. This is the list I came up with.
Rain
Showers
Mist
Drizzle
Downpour
Cloudburst
Sleet
Torrential downpour
Monsoon
Pouring
Cats and dogs
Pineapple Express
Freezing rain
Sprinkle
Liquid sunshine
Deluge
Drencher
Flood
Flurry
Precipitation
Raindrops
Rainfall
Rainstorm
Sheets
Wet weather
Squall