Weather Vocabulary
Barometer – a device that measures air pressure and shows when the weather is likely to change.
Sentence – The slightest change in the barometer, although it might be due to factors quite outside our control, would correspondingly depress them.
Blizzard – a severe snow storm with strong winds.
Sentence – A blizzard was blasting great drifts of snow across the lake.
Breezy – with wind that is quite strong but pleasant.
Sentence – Rose Clayton spends her days drifting on a breezy lake with the warm sun on her back.
Chilly – (of weather, conditions in a room, or parts of the body) cold.
Sentence – Mary Ann had made an effort at jazzing up the chilly modern interiors.
Clear – easy to understand, hear, read, or see.
Sentence – Rain comes after sunshine, and after a dark cloud, a clear sky.
Cloudy – with clouds.
Sentence – From Sunday to Tuesday, it will be cloudy with occasional drizzle in western and northwestern areas, especially around coasts and hills.
Cold front – the weather condition in which a moving mass of cold air pushes into a mass of warm air resulting in a fall in temperature.
Sentence – Clearing conditions were forecast behind the cold front that dragged low clouds through Central Florida early Friday.
Flurries – a sudden light fall of snow, blown in different directions by the wind.
Sentence – Snow flurries wafted in Saturday afternoon, mixing with the blowing sand and occasionally giving the Mall the look of winter tundra.
Fog – a weather condition in which very small drops of water come together to form a thick cloud close to the land or sea, making it difficult to see.
Sentence – It is dangerous to drive in a thick fog.
Forecast – a statement of what is judged likely to happen in the future, especially in connection with a particular situation, or the expected weather conditions.
Sentence – The forecast said there would be sunny intervals and showers.
Global warming – a gradual increase in world temperatures caused by gases such as carbon dioxide that are collecting in the air around the earth and stopping heat escaping into space.
Sentence – The threat of global warming will eventually force the US to slow down its energy consumption.
Gust – a sudden strong wind.
Sentence – You have no wrong, I am not wrong just a gust of wind, blew the commitment.
Hail – small, hard balls of ice that fall from the sky like rain.
Sentence – Rain, snow and hail are collectively known as precipitation.
Hazy – Hazy air or weather is not clear, especially because of heat
Sentence – Love, is the youth frenzy years round of apricot yellow months, fine but hazy.
Heat – the quality of being hot or warm, or the temperature of something.
Sentence – In August the heat is barely tolerable.
High-pressure – involving pressure that is greater than usual.
Sentence – People ask them-selves why they should volunteer for high-pressure teams when only individual performance will be rewarded.
Humid – (of air and weather conditions) containing extremely small drops of water in the air.
Sentence – Theywere not prepared for the humid heat of the tropical forest.
Humidity – a measurement of how much water there is in the air.
Sentence – The temperature is almost eighty degrees, the humidity in the low thirties.
Hurricane – a violent wind that has a circular movement, especially in the West Atlantic Ocean.
Sentence – Rescue teams worked desperately to restore utilities in the area shattered by the hurricane.
Lightning – a flash of bright light in the sky that is produced by electricity moving between clouds or from clouds to the ground.
Sentence – That house was struck by lightning and burned down.
