  Recent observations have shown that besides the characteristic multi-million
degree component the corona also contains a large amount of cool material
called coronal rain, whose clumps are 10 - 100 times cooler and denser than the
surroundings and are often organised in larger events termed showers. Thermal
instability (TI) within a coronal loop in a state of thermal non-equilibrium
(TNE) is the leading mechanism behind the formation of coronal rain but no
investigation on showers exists to date. In this study, we conduct a
morphological and thermodynamic multi-wavelength study of coronal rain showers
observed in an active region (AR) off-limb with IRIS and SDO, spanning
chromospheric to transition region and coronal temperatures. Rain showers were
found to be widespread across the AR over the 5.45-hour observing time, with
average length, width and duration of 27.37$\pm$11.95 Mm, 2.14$\pm$0.74 Mm, and
35.22$\pm$20.35 min, respectively. We find a good correspondence between
showers and the cooling coronal structures consistent with the TNE-TI scenario,
thereby properly identifying coronal loops in the 'coronal veil', including the
strong expansion at low heights and an almost zero expansion in the corona.
This agrees with previous work suggesting that the observed zero expansion in
the EUV is due to specific cross-field temperature distribution. We estimate
the total number of showers to be 155$\pm$40, leading to a TNE volume of
4.56$\pm$3.71 $\times$ $10^{28}$cm$^{3}$, i.e. on the same order of the AR
volume. This suggests a prevalence of TNE over the AR indicating strongly
stratified and high-frequency heating on average.
