Difference between Rains and Rainfall

RAINS vs RAINFALL: NOUN

The amount of rain that falls on a single occasion
A fall or descent of rain; the water, or amount of water, that falls in rain.
The precipitation of water from clouds; the water, or the amount of water, coming down as rain. The rainfall is measured by means of the pluviometer or rain-gage. The average rainfall of a district includes the snow, if any, reduced to its equivalent in water.
A falling of rain; a shower.
The quantity of water, expressed in inches, precipitated as rain, snow, hail, or sleet in a specified area and time interval.
A shower or fall of rain.
Water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere

Rainstorm, Monsoons, Downpour, Rainstorms, Precipitations, Downpours, Tents, Pours, Soakers, Showers, Floods, Rain down, Pelting, Rainwater, Rainfall

Shower, Drains, Hail, Raining, Drainage, Wet, Storm, Rainwater, Rainy, Rainstorm, Downpour, Wettest, Rains, Precipitation, Rain

Weather, Duststorm, Drenching, Thunderstorm, Storms, Snowfall, Precipitation, Thundershower, Rainstorm, Downpour, Pours, Soakers, Pelting, Rainwater, Rainfall

Shower, Drains, Hail, Raining, Drainage, Wet, Storm, Rainwater, Rainy, Rainstorm, Downpour, Wettest, Rains, Precipitation, Rain

It rains, it pours, it rains, it pours I came, I saw.
Pale moon rains, red moon blows; White moon neither rains nor blows.
My classroom has leaks in the ceiling and every time it rains, it rains on my computers.
November is usually short rains but it is not often rains all the days so Climbing is possible.
When it rains it rains hard and moves on quickly.
When it rains in August, it rains honey and wine.
If the cultivator has sown the seeds and is awaiting rains, failure of rains will hamper production.
When spring rains were delayed, the interval between the onset of rains and conceptions decreased linearly.
The spring rains failed entirely, and the summer rains were three weeks late.
Planting with the first rains or last rains may be agronomically sound but financially disadvantageous.

Annual, seasonal and monthly rainfall data in the entire Sicilian region have been analyzed, showing a global reduction of total annual rainfall.
Models are likely to underestimate increase in heavy rainfall in the extratropical regions with high rainfall intensity.
The fraction of rainfall that becomes runoff is assumed to be independent of rainfall intensity.
Forecasting of flash floods focus in particular on heavy rainfall and rainfall on saturated soils.
Hurricane Florence brought record rainfall to the Carolinas and now has set records for rainfall totals in those areas.
The use of words such as efficient rainfall or useful rainfall are significant in this regard.
Rainfall: The amounts and distribution pattern of rainfall indicate that Montserrat is suitable for rainwater harvesting.
Rainfall measurements should be taken near the irrigated fields, since rainfall is highly variable.
Cumulative rainfall hyetographs are also called rainfall mass curve.
The causes of relief rainfall, frontal rainfall and conventional rainfall are examined.