Weather

Question 1

Weather forecast

Answer 1

Before planning anything, just check the weather forecast to see if it’ll be sunny or rainy next weekend.

Question 2

The sun will be shining brightly

Answer 2

If the forecast says the sun will be shining brightly, with clear skies, then it’s a good day to go to the beach and bask in the sunshine.

Question 3

Bask in the sunchine

Answer 3

Soak up the sunshine
(Expressions mean to enjoy the sun’s heat and light)

If the forecast says the sun will be shining brightly, with clear skies, then it’s a good day to go to the beach and bask in the sunshine (or soak up the sunshine).

Question 4

Oppressively hot
Scorching hot
Swelteringly hot

Answer 4

If the forecast says it’ll be oppressively hot, scorching hot, or swelteringly hot, then you might want to stay inside and turn up the air conditioning.

Question 5

Swelteringly hot

Answer 5

Scorching hot

Oppressively hot

Question 6

Partly cloudy

Answer 6

The weather forecast might say it will be partly cloudy.

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There are scattered clouds.

Question 7

Heavy clouds

Answer 7

If there are heavy clouds, then you won’t be able to see the sun at all.

Question 8

Storm clouds

Answer 8

If there are heavy clouds, then you won’t be able to see the sun at all. - and if there are storm clouds, then it will probably rain very soon.

Question 9

Light rain
Heavy rain
Torrential rain

Answer 9

We can have light rain or heavy rain - and if the rain gets really intense, we can describe it as torrential rain.

Question 10

Torrential rain

Answer 10

When the rain gets really. Intense

Question 11

Continuous rain

Constant rain

Answer 11

If the rain continues without stopping

Question 12

Intermittent rain

Scattered showers

Answer 12

If it’s type of the rain that starts and stops various times throughout the day

Question 13

The rain let up

Answer 13

When it stops raining, we can say the rain let up.

Question 14

Light/slight winds

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Answer 14

High/strong winds

Question 15

The wind is picking up

Answer 15

When the wind is increasing in intensity

Question 16

The wind is dying down.

Answer 16

When the wind is decreasing in intensity.

Question 17

Biting wind

Icy wind

Answer 17

Sometimes we describe the wind with an adjective that emphasizes the cold - such as a biting wind or an icy wind.

Question 18

Snow flurries

Answer 18

Light snow

Question 19

Driving snow

Swirling snow

Answer 19

When the snow is being blown around in the wind, we can describe it as driving snow or swirling snow.

Question 20

Fresh, powdery, newly-fallen snow

Answer 20

It can be wonderful to walk through fresh, powdery, newly-fallen snow - but not so nice to drive on it.

Question 21

Clear the snow

Plough the snow

Answer 21

We clear the snow or plough the snow with vehicles to remove it from the roads.

Question 22

Shoveling the snow

Answer 22

You can clear the snow manually - that’s called shoveling the snow.

Question 23

Unreasonably warm

Unreasonably cool

Answer 23

When the weather is usual for a particular time of year

Question 24

Adjs to say the weather is good

Answer 24

Lovely
Superb
Ideal
Perfect

Question 25

Adjs to say the weather is bad

Answer 25

lousy
Miserable
Nasty
Dreadful
Terrible

Question 26

Gloomy/dismal weather

Answer 26

Weather that is dark, rather rainy, and depressing

Question 27

Muggy.sultry weather

Answer 27

Weather that is very hot and humid or wet

Question 28

Harsh/severe/wild weather

Answer 28

Weather that is extreme and violent

Question 29

Record high or record low

Answer 29

When the temperature reaches an extreme, we can that a record high or a record low.