Word: downpours
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...late as 1814 the Duke of Wellington was refused admission to his club because he wore trousers. Cuffs on trousers first appeared in New York City near the end of the 19th century after an Englishman on his way to a fashionable wedding was caught in a downpour and turned up his trousers to keep them dry. Men at the wedding assumed they were the latest style, and many rushed to their tailors to get some of the same...
...ruin of its roads during the four-month rainy season. During this period from May to August the rain becomes a way of life, often falling continuously for several days. Fishing becomes sporadic, and all but indoor workers are forced to sit and do little but watch the steady downpour turn the sand and dirt roads into rivers of mud which settle in low spots and are churned into black muck by traffic...
...banners moved down Tokyo's neon-lit Ginza. "Down with the Sato government!" bellowed the Zengakuren students, Socialist Party workers and Sohyo union members, as they marched past hordes of riot cops in blue plastic helmets with Plexiglas face shields. Then the drizzle gave way to a pelting downpour, and what had been billed as the boldest anti-government "demo" in five years sputtered out like a drenched fuse...
...think it rained yesterday . But according to the Bureau, what you "downpour" was really just...
...Then came the sort of absurd disaster for which the Viet Nam war has become famous. The intense heat of the Boiloi boil caused the wet, tropical air overhead to condense into giant thunderclouds. The "thermal convective condition," as U.S. Air Force meteorologists later defined it, triggered a drenching downpour that doused the forest fire and left Boiloi's Viet Cong safe and unsinged in their caves...