Pearl Izumi rain pants work great for me for heavy rain. I never got a proper upper cover just a hoody jacket cover thing that doesn't do as good a job of keeping water out as the pants. I wear a coat sometimes and needed something to pull over a coat. The rain pants pull over existing pants very readily, the top has a wider variation in thickness I need to cover so I never got a proper rain jacket from Pearl Izumi which is more on the tight end of a fit.