"the first rain of" is a grammatically correct and useful phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe the initial occurrence of rain during a particular time period or location. Example: The first rain of the season drenched the parched earth, bringing relief to the farmers and nourishment to the crops.
This is the first rain of spring;.
By Maxine Kumin The New Yorker, March 28 , 1959P. 30 This is the first rain of spring; View Article By Jia Tolentino By Alan Burdick By John Cassidy By Atul Gawande.
Thursday afternoon brought the first rain of the month, raising the possibility that the eleven thousand firefighters working to contain the blazes might at last have caught a lucky break.
One afternoon, a day or two after the first rain of the winter has converted the dry creek bed out back into a sluice of braided, sepia-colored ripples and long, trailing ropes of eucalyptus bark, my widow is startled by a persistent thumping from the far end of the house.
Once the two-minute silence was over, the bustle of one of the world's busiest cities brought to stillness, and once the royals and the politicians had laid their wreaths, returning to the warmth of the indoors, it fell to the men of the Normandy Veterans Association to lead the marchers, bringing the first rain of applause that never stopped.
Another weak cold front moved through Southern California on Monday morning, bringing the first rain of the season to a large swath of the state.
The first rains of spring this week have brought only partial relief.
"But when the first rains of winter come there is an immediate transformation.
In fact, a remarkable landscape metamorphosis usually begins with the first rains of November.
The novel opens in 1927, with Robert and his friends playing in the woods under the first rains of the Great Mississippi Flood.
It's not until winter starts to give way, and the first rains of spring arrive, that answers begin percolating to the surface.
