All vocabulary related to weather and the fastest way to memorize it

One of the challenges is starting a conversation with strangers, which requires us to have knowledge and a rich vocabulary on many different topics. And among them, weather vocabulary is always the most used topic. Down here EnglishTop will provide you with all the words related to this topic and please follow along!

1. Vocabulary groups about weather in English

- Weather condition:

• Weather

• Climate

• Mild

• Dry

• Wet

• Humid

• Bright: strong light

• Sunny: the sky has only the sun shining, no clouds

• Clear: the sky is clear and clear

• Fine: no rain, no clouds

• Windy

• Brezze

• Gloomy

• Partially cloudy: when there is a mixture of blue sky and clouds

• Cloudy

• Overcast

• Foggy

• Haze: a thin mist, usually caused by heat

- Temperature:

• Temperature

• Thermometer

• Degree

• Celsius: degrees Celsius

• Fahrenheit: degrees Fahrenheit

• Hot

• Baking hot: scorching hot

• Cold

• Chilly: cold to the bone

• Freeze

• Frosty: full of frost

- Amount of rain:

• Rainfall: amount of rain

• Downpour: heavy rain

• Torrential rain: rain like a waterfall

- Weather phenomena:

• Weather forecast: weather forecast

• Rain

• Damp

• Drizzle

• Rain: rain drop by drop

• Shower

• It’s raining cats and dogs: idiom for heavy rain

• Hail

• Rain-storm

• Flood

• Lightning

• Thunder

• Thunderstorm: A storm with thunder and lightning

• Snow

• Snowstorm

• Snowflake

• Blizzard: snowstorm

• Blustery: strong wind

• Gale: gust of wind

• Mist: hoarfrost

• Storm

• Hurricane: Super storm

• Typhoon: big storm

• Tornado

• Rainbow

2. Some common sentence patterns contain weather-themed vocabulary

Reviewing sentence patterns will also provide you with context, remind you to use words appropriately and think about arranging sentences more logically.

Below are frequently used English sentence samples that include weather-themed vocabulary as shared above for your reference:

• What’s the weather like?

• It’s… (sunny/raining)

• What a beautiful day!

• It’s not a very nice day!

• What a miserable weather!

• It's pouring rain outside.

• We had a lot of heavy rain this morning. This morning it rained heavily for a long time

• The weather's fine.

• There's not a cloud in the sky. There was not a single cloud in the sky

• The sun's shining. It's sunny

• We haven't had any rain for a fortnight. It hasn't rained for half a month

• What's the temperature? 

• It’s 19°C (“nineteen degrees”).

• Temperatures are in the mid-20s.

• It's hot.

• What's the forecast?

• What's the forecast like?

• It's forecast to rain.

• It's supposed to clear up.

Above are common weather-themed vocabulary in English divided into groups that are very easy to learn. Please review a lot to achieve the best results!

3. Learn English on the topic of weather - English idioms

• Storm in a teacup (storm in a teacup) – exaggerate the problem.

For example: She told lie to me. It’s absolutely storm in a teacup.

• Chasing rainbows – trying to do the impossible.

For example: Jerry wanted to pursue his dream of being famous actor, but his friends told him to quit chasing rainbows.

• Lightning fast (lightning fast) – runs very fast.

For example: He ran like lightning fast in order not to be late for school.

• Head in the clouds – having unrealistic ideas.

For example: Annie always has her head in the cloud. She can't focus on anything.

• Raining cats and dogs – very heavy rain.

For example: It's raining cats and dogs out there. You shouldn't go home at this time.

• Face like thunder (face like thunder) – angry, sad on the face.

For example: Ron must have been angry cause his face like thunder.

•  Snowed under – there is so much to do.

For example: Heather's snowed under at work. She won’t be able to join us until 8 o’clock.

• Under the weather (affected by the weather) – tired, sick, sluggish

For example: Unfortunately, I won't be able to come to the party, because I'm feeling a bit under the weather.

With all the vocabulary, idioms and sentence patterns that EnglishTop introduces, we hope you will have effective English learning moments! Good luck!