The word 'downpours' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a large amount of rain that falls suddenly. For example: "The town was battered by heavy downpours for days after the storm."
More than 3in of rain fell over much of eastern Iowa and northern Illinois Monday night and Tuesday morning, and some areas got up to 5in of rain, National Weather Service meteorologist Mark Fuchs said, capping a week of downpours in the region.
At least 19 people have died since the weekend during torrential downpours in Texas and Oklahoma as parts of the deluged region brace for another dangerous turn, with forecasters warning of the potential for flash flooding from storms that could bring as much as 3 more inches of rain.
With spitting rain adding to the drama on a day when morning downpours had already forced a late start, the French 14th seed served for the match at 5-4 in the third set, only to punctuate his worst game of the match with a miserable double-fault on break point.
The biggest suspense at the Democratic shindig in Charlotte centred on the weather too: whether, given the downpours all week, Barack Obama would be able to give his acceptance speech on September 6th in an open-air stadium.
The scorching heat and downpours of the tropics do not lend themselves to long trudges around unshaded fairways and greens.
It is even progress of a sort that the regime has released television pictures of the dreadful floods.Even without this year's huge downpours, the policy failure that let goats and farmers desperate for arable land strip the country's hillsides bare of trees has made flooding an almost annual event.
Delegates skirting Manchester's autumn downpours did not mind.
In turn, that makes forests more resilient to torrential downpours, epidemics of insect-borne diseases and even climate change.
The team faced downpours of rain and even an earthquake with a magnitude of 5.8 while one of the volunteers worked near the dish.Much remains to be determined.
Trees, for example, react to downpours with a spurt of growth.
Protesters, conveniently armed with the umbrellas that have become their rallying symbol, endured downpours of rain to jeer the territory's leader, Leung Chun-ying, as he presided over the raising of the national flag.
