Seattle's climate is very like Vancouver's, and we have so many different kinds of rain, it's frustrating to have so few distinct words to differentiate between them, and instead have to launch into long (and admittedly beautiful) descriptions like this one.

I know exactly the kind of rain you are describing.

Last night we had its diametric opposite: rain so fat and heavy it seems to fall extra-fast and with extra force, which makes it bounce off the roads and sidewalks. It overwhelms road camber and sweeps debris ahead of it to drainage covers, and hoist on its own petard it gathers in swiftly-widening puddles. I love that kind of rain when I don't have to be out in it. :)