Weather Flashcards
Weather forecast
Before planning anything, just check the weather forecast to see if it’ll be sunny or rainy next weekend.
The sun will be shining brightly
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.
Bask in the sunchine
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).
Oppressively hot
Scorching hot
Swelteringly hot
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.
Swelteringly hot
Scorching hot
Oppressively hot
Partly cloudy
The weather forecast might say it will be partly cloudy.
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There are scattered clouds.
Heavy clouds
If there are heavy clouds, then you won’t be able to see the sun at all.
Storm clouds
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.
Light rain
Heavy rain
Torrential rain
We can have light rain or heavy rain - and if the rain gets really intense, we can describe it as torrential rain.
Torrential rain
When the rain gets really. Intense
Continuous rain
Constant rain
If the rain continues without stopping
Intermittent rain
Scattered showers
If it’s type of the rain that starts and stops various times throughout the day
The rain let up
When it stops raining, we can say the rain let up.
Light/slight winds
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High/strong winds
The wind is picking up
When the wind is increasing in intensity
The wind is dying down.
When the wind is decreasing in intensity.
Biting wind
Icy wind
Sometimes we describe the wind with an adjective that emphasizes the cold - such as a biting wind or an icy wind.
Snow flurries
Light snow
Driving snow
Swirling snow
When the snow is being blown around in the wind, we can describe it as driving snow or swirling snow.
Fresh, powdery, newly-fallen snow
It can be wonderful to walk through fresh, powdery, newly-fallen snow - but not so nice to drive on it.
Clear the snow
Plough the snow
We clear the snow or plough the snow with vehicles to remove it from the roads.
Shoveling the snow
You can clear the snow manually - that’s called shoveling the snow.
Unreasonably warm
Unreasonably cool
When the weather is usual for a particular time of year
Adjs to say the weather is good
Lovely
Superb
Ideal
Perfect
Adjs to say the weather is bad
lousy Miserable Nasty Dreadful Terrible
Gloomy/dismal weather
Weather that is dark, rather rainy, and depressing
Muggy.sultry weather
Weather that is very hot and humid or wet
Harsh/severe/wild weather
Weather that is extreme and violent
Record high or record low
When the temperature reaches an extreme, we can that a record high or a record low.
