'rainstorm' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to refer to a large storm that involves rain, often accompanied with thunder and lightning. For example, "The evening sky was darkening in anticipation of the approaching rainstorm."
The next ones were less benign, driving through a rainstorm on the M11 in a deliberate, and not entirely unsuccessful, attempt to scare me.
They're a bit wonky, and if anything I've ever owned has been destined to fall apart in a rainstorm five miles from home, it's these.
It doesn't take much to work out how it earned its name, with a terrain of dunes gliding into sandstone crags, the only ornament a frosting of salt left by a freakish rainstorm two years ago.
The day of the rainstorm, Mr Gandhi's main scheduled rally, outside a school, was cancelled after election officials ruled, at the last instant, that it would disturb pupils taking exams.
The armed forces' chief, General Wiranto, proposed a "civilian militia" to reinforce the police.See article: Indonesia's mob militiaGunboats from the Sri Lankan navy sank a boat belonging to the Tamil Tigers off the country's northern coast.In Thailand an airliner crashed into a swamp while trying to land during a rainstorm.
The World Bank reckons that power shortages trim more than two percentage points from annual growth in GDP on average in Africa; in Nigeria the loss has been almost four percentage points a year.After a drought in investment in new generating capacity lasting almost three decades, blooms of new power plants are now sprouting across sub-Saharan Africa like acacia seeds after a rainstorm.
Indeed, judging by how Congress is doing in UP, the rainstorm augured less a messiah than a drenching.Having ruled UP for most of its independent history, Congress lost it in 1989, and since has shrivelled.
Mobiles have hit Nigeria like a rainstorm in the desert.
But it was a relief when a rainstorm forced it to take a break.Correction: A previous version of this article misstated the share of world trade settled in yuan.
This helps explain why one day of the recent election saw a 90% turnout in a rainstorm.
Sheltering from a rainstorm in an abandoned factory, the boys encounter a trio of tramps.
