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Lesson 19 – Weather
Do you want to know if it’ll be sunny or rainy next weekend? Then you should check the weather
forecast – that’s the prediction of the weather in the near future.

If the forecast says the sun will be shining brightly, with clear skies (no clouds in the sky) and high
temperatures, then it’s a good day to go to the beach and bask in the sunshine (or soak up the
sunshine) – these expressions mean to enjoy the sun’s heat and light.

However, 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! Another common phrase is hot and humid –
that means hot with a lot of water in the air (so you will sweat a lot).

The weather forecast might say it will be partly cloudy (the sky partially covered by clouds). Another way
to say this is that there are scattered clouds (just a few 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.
One way to express this is to say “It looks like rain.”

We can have light rain (little rain) or heavy rain (lots of rain, intense rain) – and if the rain gets REALLY
intense, we can describe it as torrential rain. If the rain continues without stopping, then we call it
continuous rain or constant rain – but if it’s the type of rain that starts and stops various times
throughout the day, it’s called intermittent rain or scattered showers. When it stops raining, you can
say the rain let up.

Rain is usually accompanied by wind, which can be light/slight winds or high/strong winds. If the wind
is especially strong and violent, you can say fierce winds or gale-force winds – this last expression is
usually used for winds at the level of a hurricane. When the wind is increasing in intensity, we say “The
wind is picking up,” and when it is decreasing in intensity, we say “The wind is dying down.”

Sometimes we describe the wind with an adjective that emphasizes the cold – such as a biting wind or
an icy wind. Finally, a sudden instance of wind can be called a blast of wind or a gust of wind.

Snow, like rain, can be light or heavy. Light snow can also be called snow flurries. When the snow is
being blown around in the wind, we can describe it as driving snow or swirling snow. It can be
wonderful to walk through fresh, powdery, newly-fallen snow – but not so nice to drive on it. So we
clear the snow or plough the snow with vehicles to remove it from the roads. You can also do this
manually – that’s called shoveling the snow. At the end of winter, when temperatures rise, the snow
melts – it turns into water and disappears.

Sometimes the weather is unusual for a particular time of year. For example, in the winter, you might
have a day that is unseasonably warm, and in the summer, you might have a day that is unseasonably
cool. When the temperature reaches an extreme, we call that a record high or a record low.

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Here are some alternative ways of saying the weather was good. You can say the weather was beautiful,
lovely, ideal, superb, or perfect. To say the weather was bad, you can say the weather was lousy,
miserable, nasty, dreadful, or terrible.

Other ways to describe the weather:

gloomy/dismal weather = weather that is dark, rather rainy, and depressing


muggy/sultry weather = weather that is very hot and humid or wet
mild / calm weather = weather that is nice and not extreme
harsh/severe/wild weather = weather that is extreme and violent

Lesson 19 – Quiz
clear let up muggy perfect storm high mild wild

forecast light oppressively record torrential partly scattered

Now it's time for your weather ______________. Right now we have __________ weather, with
___________ skies and a _________ wind from the east. It's __________ weather for a walk in the park.
There will be some _____________ showers overnight, but it the rain should __________ by tomorrow
morning.

Saturday will be __________ cloudy and ____________ hot. We might even see a __________ high
temperature. The _________ weather continues into Sunday, with _________ clouds forming in the late
afternoon. On Monday we'll have some __________ weather, with _____________ rain and _________
winds.

cleared heavy nasty flurries

driving icy thaw unseasonably

We're seeing __________ clouds and a few snow ____________ right now, but we have some
__________ winter weather ahead, with _______ winds and record ________ temperatures at night. Be
careful if you go out in the ___________ snow, especially if you're on a road where the snow hasn't yet
been ___________. The snow will probably __________ next week, as we're expecting some
_____________ warm weather.

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