Learn how to talk about the weather in English.
The question to ask is How’s the weather? or What’s the weather like? – they mean the same thing. To answer, you will start with It is or It’s … For example: It is warm.
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warm | hot
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very hot |
cool
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cold
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very cold |
sunny
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windy
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cloudy
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stormy
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nice out | bad weather |
humid | foggy |
In English, the present progressive is often used to describe the weather at the moment of speaking. Here is the fomula: It is + present participle.
drizzling | raining
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pouring
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sleeting | snowing
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freezing
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More vocabulary:
storm | Any bad weather that includes lots of rain, snow, or wind. | |
lightning | A bright streak of light in the sky. | |
thunder | The sound that accompanies lightning. | |
downpour | An unusually large amount of rain in a very short period of time. | |
flood | A rise in the water level of a river or low area of land that is normally dry. | |
heatwave | An extended period of heat that last for several days or as long as a week. | |
drought | An extended period of little or no rain in a region that usually experiences rain. | |
mist | A cloud of water droplets that is in contact wit the earth. Mist = Fog. | |
drizzle | A very light rain. | |
sleet | Frozen rain. | |
gust | A strong blow of wind that last for several seconds during a windy day. | |
tornado | A large and often destructive vortex of wind usually occurring in flat open expanses. | |
hurricane | A massive storm accompanied by lots of rain and wind. | |
windchill | A drop in temperature associated with a very cold wind. |