ENGLISH VOCABULARY: WEATHER

Nouns Adjectives
hurricane huracán
gale vendaval
storm tormenta stormy tempestuoso
thunderstorm tormenta de truenos
fuerte tormenta de nieva
blizzard
de larga duración
shower aguacero cloudy nublado
cloud nube overcast nublado
sunshine sol sunny soleado
clear claro
thunder trueno
lightning relámpago
fine /
bueno
good
bad malo
bleak muy frío y gris

Nouns Adjectives
wind viento windy ventoso
breeze brisa breezy airosa
fog neblina foggy nebuloso
humid;
humidity humedad húmedo
damp
mist bruma misty brumoso
dew rocío
sleet aguanieve
drizzle llovizna
hail granizo
frost escarcha frosty escarchado
dry seco
hot caluroso
warm templado
boiling calor achicharrante
scorching (hirviendo, abrasando,
baking horneando)
cold frío
chilly frío / fresquito
freezing helado

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 Verbs
to rain llover It rains a lot in England.
llover a
to pour It’s pouring! Take your umbrella!
cántaros
to drizzle lloviznar It’s only drizzling now.
granizar When it hails you should put your car in
to hail
the garage.
caer
to sleet It’s sleeting and very cold.
aguanieve
caer un It’s started to shower; I’m sure to get
to shower
chaparrón wet.
to snow nevar It’s snowing hard now.
to frost helar It frosted last night.
tronar It’s thundering – there’s going to be a
to thunder
storm.
to blow soplar The wind is blowing hard!
to cloud nublarse
Look, it’s clouded over.
over

In English most weather expressions begin with It’s ….

It is raining.
It's foggy. Hay niebla or Llueve.
It rains a lot in Spring
It is snowing.
or
Hay neblina Nieva.
It's misty. It snows a lot in
Norway.
Hay
It's lightning. It is thundering. Truena.
relámpagos
It is drizzling. or
It's humid. Hay humedad. It drizzles quite often Llovizna.
in Autumn.
Hay nubes. It's hailing. Hay granizo.
It's cloudy.
Hay lluvias
It's pouring. It's windy. Hace viento
torrenciales.
It’s sunny.
or Hay sol. Hay un
There's a windstorm.
The sun is vendaval.
shining.

The moon is Hay luna.

out.

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 Temperature

temperature temperatura Celsius Celsius

degree grado Fahrenheit Fahrenheit

barometer barómetro pressure presión

Expressing probability

possible posible impossible imposible

probable probable likely probable

unlikely improbable highly unlikely altamente improbable

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