Do the British have fifty words for the rain?

Having read the article Fifty words for rain on the BBC website, I now know that the Inuit do not have fifty words for snow. I may have already known this, thanks to Stephen Fry and QI, but am not entirely sure if I did or not! Never-the-less, it doesn't hurt to repeat contradictions and corrections to commonly accepted and oft repeated erroneous statements.

The article starts -  "If the Inuit apocryphally have 50 words for snow, why don't British people have 50 words for rain... or at least more words than the few they normally employ, asks Kevin Connolly."

Kevin Connolly seems to be bemoaning the fact that we are inundated with so much rain, but standard English does not mirror the volume of rain we have with the volume of words we can use to describe it. Also, that perhaps our weather forecasters are lacking a little imagination when it comes to their broadcasts?

The article continues - "...when we posed the question to the Broadcasting House audience on Radio 4 we were deluged, inundated and flooded with suggestions for words for rain."

Therein lies the one small problem with an otherwise very interesting article. The question posed at the beginning of the article asks "...why don't British people have 50 words for rain... or at least more words than the few they normally employ" The fact of the matter is that the British people DO employ fifty words for rain, possibly even more, but standard English does not. The fact that they were " deluged, inundated and flooded with suggestions for words for rain" when they appealed for suggestions from the Broadcasting House audience on Radio 4,  proves this

Kevin says "One heartening conclusion is that colloquial English is a lot more vibrant, colourful and expressive than its slightly grander cousin deployed in the Met Office." So, British weather forecasters are the ones that have the unvaried vocabulary. Well, regional studios do regional news accompanied by regional weather, so why can't our regional weather forecasters do the weather using local colloquialisms? Possibly, the reason why it isn't done, is because there are so many different colloquialisms and even people living in the same city, don't always understand each others turn of phrase.

Here is an example of a weather forecast using all those interesting and different words for rain harvested from the Radio 4 audience. Which broadcast do you prefer, this one or the traditional standard English?

So, exactly how many words do the British have for rain? 

First of all, how many are mentioned in the BBC article:

1. Rain (obviously)
2. Downfall
3. Drizzle/Drizzleing
4. Deluge
5. Downpour
6. Dreich
7. Soft weather
8. Tipple/Tippleing
9. Pelting
10. Raining cats and dogs
11. Luttering down
12. Siling down
13. Plothering
14. Raining stair-rods
15. Raining chair-legs
16. Raining like a cow relieving itself
17. Chucking it down 
18. Mizzle/Mizzling
19. Grizzerable
20. Woodfiddly rain
21. Mawky
22. Pishpotikle weather

From the comments on the article:

1. Raining upwards
2. Raining Elephants and Whales
3. Teeming rain
4. Bucketing down
5. Lashing down
6. Heavy rain
7. Droughting down
8. Hose-pipe banning down
9. Hammering it down
10. Pissing it down
11. Pelting down
12. Tipping down
13. Gutting
14. Bouncing
15. Stoating
16. Pishing
17. Misting
18. Horizontal
19. Sheeting it down
20. Rain of biblical proportions
21. Liquid sunshine
22. Nice weather for ducks
23. Deemin doon
24. Spitting
25. Welsh rain
26. Soaking
27.  Pipmly Sissing

That's 49 words already. The thesaurus has suggested the following:

1.  Cloudburst
2.  Drencher
3. Heavy dew
4. Pouring
5. Precipitation

These are my suggestions in addition to the above:

1. Torrential
2. Monsoon
3. Spits and spots 

Plus, there are 26 words in Welch (and they are part of Britain) for rain. As quoted from the comments  BBC article:

"Mae o leiaf 26 o eiriau ar gyfer law yn Gymraeg (There are at least 26 words for rain in Welsh)
bwrw
byrlymu
glawio
llifo
bwrwglaw
towlud (dial.)
dafnu
taflu
pigo
hegar law
glaw mân
lluwchlaw
gwlithlaw
chwipio bwrw
brasfwrw
pistyllio
sgrympian (dial.)
piso
cawodi
curlaw
arllwys
tywallt
tollti
stido (dial.)
dymchwel
tresio
Mae hi'n bwrw hen wragedd a ffin (it's raining old women and sticks :))"

By my reckoning that is 82 British words for rain. Can you add anymore?