The 25 Hottest People In The Rain

By Meghan O'Keefe

April 10, 2013 / 9:00 AM

They say that "April showers bring May flowers", but they also bring wet t-shirts, slippery and sexy kisses, and glistening hard bodies. Anyone who is already hot is made instantly hotter with a downpour of sex appeal. So get ready, it's raining men and women and Backstreet Boys--and everyone's going to wind up wet.

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Sure, seasonal depression is a thing and spring is often a mix of beautiful blue skies and grisly grey days--but when you think about all hot much hotter kissing in the rain is compared to just kissing in nice weather, it's easy to sweep away the rainy day blues.

Whether it's Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling locking lips and limbs in a southern downpour in The Notebook or torrid sex on a stormy day or, um, Mary Jane Watson showing her assets off to Spider-Man, our 25 Hottest People in the Rain prove once and for all that wetter is better.

[Photo Credit: Columbia Pictures, Jive Records, New Line Cinema]