Yamamoto Tsunetomo

One must know the so-called 'lesson of a downpour.' A man, caught in a sudden rain en route, dashes along the road not to get wet or drenched. Once one takes it for granted that in rain he naturally gets wet, he can be in a tranquil frame of mind even when soaked to the skin. This lesson applies to everything.

Japanese Soldier

Autumn Phillips

Peter threw my coat at me and said we were taking the dog for a walk. He went down on one knee in the downpour and produced this ring! I looked horrible in my wellies with wet hair.

Canadian Royalty

John Elway

We get done with the game, and it's an absolute downpour 30 minutes later. That's when I thought God was telling me that's enough-time for you to go do something else.

American Athlete

Elaine Welteroth

The life of an editor may seem all glam all the time, but there's nothing like schlepping through the city during a torrential downpour to put things in perspective.

American Journalist

A downpour usually starts unexpectedly and quickly, leaving little time to seek shelter.

Sudden Onset

The term implies more than just rain—it's a large amount of water pouring down rapidly.

Intensity

Downpours are often short-lived, though they're very heavy. They may not last more than a few minutes.

Brief Duration

 Average humidity worldwide has gone up four percent. And it creates these atmospheric rivers. The Brazilian scientists call them "flying rivers." And they funnel all of that extra water vapor over the land where storm conditions trigger these massive record-breaking downpours.

The case for optimism on...

 At these levels, additional downpours of acid rain would destroy the region’s marine and arboreal ecosystems in a matter of decades. Urgently sharing their findings with fellow researchers,

Whatever happened to...

 fill up the lower lying areas on our young planet possibly creating the first oceans but it's reckoned even this relentless downpour only delivered around half the water that makes up her

Earth the Biography:...

 we all think great it's going to be sunny you know margaritas and we just had the worst weather there was in terms of downpours rain flooding we weren't expecting that at all and we

The Elusive Iberian Lynx...

 or in some other world waiting waist deep amongst alligators Panthers bears it's really easy to get really wild really remote really quick we are getting wanna buy downpour here

Rare Ghost Orchid Has...

 young planet possibly creating the first oceans but it's reckoned even this relentless downpour only delivered around half the water that makes up her

Origins of Oceans PIPE...

 sudden downpours can take a heavy toll of young birds so it is just as well that their mother's feathers can create a waterproof cloak to protect her

Feeding A Hungry Barn...

 here it's called the monsoon season these torrential downpours can dump several centimeters of rain in just a

Swarm of Ants Flies For...

 Baritone thunder. Snarling winds. Consuming downpours. Okeechobee, the disastrous hurricane of 1928,

Can love and independence...

 he is so light and so waterproof he can float a nifty way to survive the daily downpour