Shoppers and travellers put a brave face on yesterday as the torrential battered the Granite City.
Firefighters helped staff at Aberdeen International Airport sweep water from the arrivals and baggage collection area.
And buckets were strategically-placed in shops and malls as the deluge battered through roofs.
The appropriately-named Monsoon store in the Bon Accord centre is understood to have been forced to shuts its doors around 3.15pm because of rain leaking through light fixtures.
Buckets could be seen through the windows of the premises, but no one was available at the shop to comment.
Pails were also placed in the main atria of the centre to collect water pouring through the roof.
A manager at the Clinton Cards store said: “We’ve been lucky to be just about the only shop here not affected.
“I’ve been speaking to a few people in the shops who say some of their stock has been damaged.”
The centre’s Superdrug store had to close one of its entrances to customers because of a possible slipping hazard.
Jasmine Daniel, a supervisor at the shop, said: “We had to block one of the entrances into the shop, it was just one side at the corner.
“It was totally for the safety of the customers and if it got worse we would have had to close.
“Luckily, we were able to stay open.”
Denna McDougal, a worker the Yankee Candle shop, said: “We were lucky that it was just our stockroom that got hit.
“We were watching the water come in from the roof and had to move some of the stock out of the way.
“I know Monsoon had it pretty bad and that’s why they had to shut early.”
At Aberdeen International Airport a number of flights from Sumburgh were cancelled due to the bad weather, but other flights took off and landed as scheduled.
Debbie Miller, 42, was waiting for her husband arriving back from Heathrow.
She said: “I’m surprised they’ve handled it so well honestly.
“The rain has just been crazy and I was sure that he wouldn’t be coming back today.”
A woman waiting with her family for a flight to Luton to visit relatives in Bedfordshire said: “I think we’ve missed the worst of it, I heard it was up to people’s ankles earlier.
“Thankfully the planes don’t seem disrupted so hopefully the weather will be better when we get back.”
An Aberdeen International Airport spokesman said: “The disruption has been minimal.
“We’re working hard to shift the water and flights are proceeding as normal.
“There have been some problems but we’re on top of it now and it shouldn’t cause any more disruption.”
Bus services in the city were also slowed or diverted as the rain hit.
A spokeswoman for First Aberdeen said: “Two of our services, the 13 and 20, were diverted as a result of flooding to the routes.
“We are expecting delays as a result of the weather.”