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Be pouring with rain
It was pouring down with
rain at three o’clock.
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Blizzard – a severe snow storm
We got stuck
in a blizzard.
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Drought
We had a drought last summer. It
didn’t rain for six weeks.
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Gentle breeze- wind -strong wind-blustery day-gale-hurricane
There’s a good
wind today; fancy going sailing? It’s a very blustery
day; the umbrella will just blow away.
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Heavy/torrential/pouring rain
There will be heavy rain in most
parts of the country.
The light rain stopped.
A heavy shower
of rain
An inch of rain fell in an hour.
As the first drops of rain fell, they ran for cover.
It was pouring with rain, and Laura only had a thin dress on.
It looks like rain, so let’s go inside.
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Boiling (hot)- hot- warm- not very warm –
cool - cold/chilly- freezing
It was a boiling hot morning.
Can
I open the window? It’s boiling in here.
The evening air was cool
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Heavy fall of snow
Snow was falling heavily as
we entered the village.
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Icy
An icy wind (extremely cold)
The water was icy
cold
An icy mountain road (covered with ice)
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hurricane
a storm that has very strong fast winds
and that moves over water
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A hurricane/heavy storm hits the cost
It’s three days
after Hurricane Katrina hit the US cost.
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Bright weather
if the weather is bright, the sun
shines strongly
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Fair - sunny and not windy or rainy
- used especially in weather forecasts
It should be generally
fair and warm for the next few days.
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To cause major/minor problems
The heavy rain has caused
major transport problems
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sleet
a mixture of snow and rain
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slush
a mixture of partly melted snow and ice
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A fine evening, isn’t it? It’s wonderful out/outside
What’s
the weather like?
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Rather warm/cool/ cold, isn’t it?
The weather forecast said
it would be fine all day.
The weather turned bitterly
cold.
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Spell of weather
We’re having a spell of hot/wonderful/wet
weather
Wet – rainy
There's more wet weather on the way.
It's
very wet outside.
the wettest summer on record
Dry - having very little rain :
Eastern areas should stay dry tomorrow.
the dry season
These plants do not grow well in dry conditions (=when there is not much rain).
a prolonged dry spell (=period)
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Weather patterns
changes in weather patterns caused by global
warming
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Summer/winter/season, etc. can be:
Humid: if the weather is
humid, you feel uncomfortable because the air is very
wet and usually hot:
Tokyo is extremely humid in mid-summer.
Dry: with little or no rainfall or humidity:
the West Coast has had two dry winters in a row
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What a clear/starlit/cloudless night! Not a cloud in
the sky!
heavy/thick/dense etc clouds:
Dark clouds floated across the moon.
Heavy
clouds had gathered over the summit of Mont Blanc.
Visibility was bad due to low cloud.
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I expect we’ll have a fine day. The
sun is coming out.
We sat in the sun, eating
ice cream.
the warmth of the afternoon sun
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What a fine/ nice/ most lovely/ glorious day!
glorious
weather is sunny and hot:
glorious sunshine
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Weather conditions
The climbers reached the top, in spite
of bad weather conditions.
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In all weathers
in all types of weather, even
when it is very hot or cold:
There are homeless
people sleeping on the streets in all weathers.
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I think it will continue/keep fine. The weather
is improving I should say. It will clear up
by and by. It’s clearing up.
if the weather, sky, mist etc clears (up), it becomes better and there is more sun:
The haze usually clears by lunchtime.
Balmy - pleasantly warm, with a gentle wind blowing
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It’s beginning to drizzle. There’s a fine drizzling
rain. The rain is still falling. It’s coming down
hard (in torrents, in buckets).
if it is drizzling, light rain and mist come out of the sky:
The rain isn't too bad - it's only drizzling.
To feel under the weather (informal) – slightly ill:
You look a bit under the weather.
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It seems a dull (wet, damp, gloomy) day.
What a rainy/ cloudy/ foggy/windy/ stormy day. It’s hazy/
misty
Dull – not bright and with lots of clouds (dull sky)
Gloomy - sad because you think the situation will not improve; dark, especially in a way that makes you feel sad (It was a gloomy room with one small window).
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I expect we’ll have rain (a shower, a
thunderstorm). It will turn out a wet day. It
won’t keep fine. We’re in for bad/ cold/ rainy/ freezing weather.
Thunderstorm - a storm with thunder and lightning
Lightning - a powerful flash of light in the sky caused by electricity and usually followed by thunder:
Lightning flashed overhead.
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It’s a dull morning, isn’t it? Rather nasty
out! Beasty weather! What wretched/frightful/terrible/awful weather!
Wretched - extremely
bad or unpleasant
Grey, dull - cloudy and not bright
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The sky is overcast. The clouds are hanging
low in the sky.
Overcast - dark with clouds:
The
sky was overcast and a light rain began to fall.
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Don’t get caught in the rain/ a shower!
You’ll get wet through and through. I’m drenched/soaked/wet to
the skin. My clothes are soaking wet.
Drenched - covered with a lot of a liquid:
He changed out of his rain-drenched clothes.
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It has stopped/ceased/left off raining. But the weather
is so uncertain/unsettled/changeable.
Unsettled: if the weather is unsettled, it
keeps changing and it often rains.
Uncertain - not clear, definite, or decided
The English weather is never the same two days running.
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There’s hardly a breath of air (there’s not
a breath of air). Not a leaf is stirring.
No wonder, with such a blazing (scorching) sun.
Blazing – extremely hot, shining intensely (a blazing August afternoon)
Scorching - extremely hot, hot and dry enough to burn or parch a surface; (the scorching desert heat)
Parch - if the sun or wind parches something, it makes it very dry
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hot: boiling/scorching/sizzling/blazing/
burning/baking/broiling (hot) -extremely hot
sweltering - very
hot and humid and feeling uncomfortable
Boiling – (spoken)
very hot [≠ freezing]. Can I open a window? It's boiling in here.
Sizzling (especially American English) – very hot (= boiling)
broiling weather, sun etc makes you feel extremely hot [= boiling]. A broiling day.
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A heat wave is coming on. Hot weather
has set in.
heatwave -a period of unusually hot weather
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It’s a hot/close/stifling/dusty/sultry/sticky day. The air is humid.
Close - uncomfortably warm because there seems to be
no air. The weather that night was hot and close, with a hint of thunder in the distance.
Stifling: a room or weather that is stifling is very hot and uncomfortable, so that it seems difficult to breathe. The stifling heat of the tropics.
Weather that is sultry is hot with air that feels wet. Since the rain, the air had become heavy and still and sultry.
Weather that is sticky makes you feel uncomfortably hot, wet, and dirty[= humid]. It was hot and sticky and there was nowhere to sit.
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The rain is still falling. It’s pouring/ lightning/thundering/hailing.
There goes a flash of lightning! Do you hear
the crashing of the thunder? What a tremendous clap of thunder!
Tremendous - very big, fast, powerful etc.
Clap - a sudden loud noise. An ear-splitting clap of thunder.
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It’s been raining off and on for a
week now. We’ve been having rain for a week
now.
Off and on – now and then, from time to time
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The heat is unbearable (oppressive)
Weather that is oppressive
is unpleasantly hot with no movement of air. The
oppressive heat of the afternoon.
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It’s 30 degrees in the shade. The temperature
is rising (going up).
Temperatures rarely rise above freezing.
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Snow is falling. What soft, fluffy, large snowflakes!
They’re coming down thick. There’s a thick/heavy snowfall.
Fluffy
– very light and soft to touch
Snowflake - a small soft flat piece of frozen water that falls as snow
wintry - cold and snowy or rainy, like the weather in winter
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The river is frozen over. The frost has
locked the river. Cold weather has set in. The
thermometer is at zero. I’m shivering. My teeth are clattering with the cold.
Set in - (of something unpleasant or unwelcome) begin and seem likely to continue
Shiver - to shake slightly because you are cold or frightened (shiver with cold)
If heavy hard objects clatter, or if you clatter them, they make a loud unpleasant noise
arctic - extremely cold, usually with a lot of ice and snow
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It’s getting chilly. What a cold/frosty day! It’s
extremely/ bitterly/beasty cold out!
Crisp - if the air
is crisp, it feels cold but pleasantly fresh and clear
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A strong wind has risen. The wind is
blowing the snow high in the air. It looks
as if we’re going to have a snowstorm.
Blustery – very windy
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There’s been a thaw (it’s thawing). The snow
and ice are melting. It’s slushy/muddy/dirty out. Look out
for the slush and mud puddles. It’s still very slippery in places.
Thaw - a period of warm weather during which snow and ice melt. The thaw begins in March.
Something that is slippery is difficult to hold, walk on etc. because it is wet or greasy. In places, the path can be wet and slippery.
chilly - a little too cold, in a way that makes you feel uncomfortable
cool - a little cold, in a way that is pleasant
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It’s been a hard/severe/mild winter. But spring is
in the air.
severe weather is very bad and very
extreme, and very hot, dry, cold etc
Mild - fairly warm. We had an exceptionally mild winter last year.
cold snap/cold spell - a period of unusually cold weather
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It’s freezing. We’re having severe/hard frost. We’re having
a sudden spell of cold weather. I’m chilled to
the bone.
Spell -a period of a particular kind of activity, weather, illness etc, usually a short period
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Thick/dense/freezing fog. The fog lifted (disappeared) in the
afternoon.
Fog – cloudy air near the ground which
is difficult to see through. Quite thick, associated with cold weather.
Dense - difficult to see through or breathe in
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Next morning the whole town was covered in
mist.
Mist – light fog, often on the sea or
caused by drizzle
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The sun was surrounded by a golden haze
Haze
-light mist usually caused by heat
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smog
Smog -a mixture of fog and pollution (smoke)
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Damp-drizzle-pour down/downpour-torrential rain-flood
Damp – slightly wet, often in
an unpleasant way. A cold, damp day.
It was absolutely
pouring down/ there was a real downpour
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Torrential rain
In the tropics there’s usually torrential rain
most days, and the roads often get flooded
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shower
Shower - short period of rain or snow
This rain
won’t last long. It’s only a shower.