Everyone's Rainy Day

I think the chance of cats and dogs coming for the sky was highest in England and really only during a certain period in history.  Maybe occasionally it happens today, and ever so often in the States.  But I'm not sure it ever happens or happened in Japan.  But if this were England fifty years ago, cats and dogs would be coming out of the sky.  But as it is, it's just raining.  Or perhaps it's doing something else that only native speakers of Japanese can see, some other invisible mysterious happening, surrounding everyone on what otherwise is a universally accepted grayer-than-normal day.