The phrase "ongoing rain" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe rain that is currently happening and continues without interruption.
Example: "The forecast predicts ongoing rain throughout the weekend, so be sure to bring an umbrella."
Alternatives: "continuous rain" or "persistent rain".
Flooding from the heavy rainfall destroyed widespread crops and flooded dozens of villages, and ongoing rains persisted throughout the summer, killing 285 people in the two countries.
This storm system prolonged an ongoing heavy rain event, which began across Arkansas and Missouri on April 22. Weekly rainfall totals reached 19.73 inches 6 mile east-northeast of Springdale, Arkansas, 16.20 inches 4 mile northwest of Poplar Bluff, Missouri, and 14.96 inches at Westville, Oklahoma.
Another seven victims reportedly died in the commercial capital of Blantyre today after their homes collapsed due to ongoing severe rain.
Humboldt penguins at the Scarborough Sea Life Sanctuary in North Yorkshire were administered the pick-me-up after staff became concerned by their inability to cope with the ongoing wind and rain.
The immunisation campaigns have suffered in areas where military operations are ongoing, or where rain and floods have uprooted populations and disrupted communications for long periods during the last two years.
Famine ends, but Somalis remain at risk In 2011, famine was declared in several regions of Somalia after three years of poor or failed rains and ongoing civil insecurity.
Subsequent smaller rain events caused ongoing hillslope erosion and local deposition and erosion in gullies.
"While the last rains were good, the ongoing conflict continues to seriously hamper agriculture production," said Tothova.
As anyone who has lived through California's ongoing drought knows, we still pray for rain, though we do it in different ways.
How the rain means April and an ongoing-ness like that of song until at last it ends.
