Weather Vocabulary in English: Temperature, Rain, Clouds, Wind and More
Temperature
ºF = degrees Fahrenheit (USA) / ºC = degrees Celsius (rest of the world)
When we talk about temperature: IT + IS / WAS + ADJECTIVE
- hot → caliente
- warm → tibio
- cool → fresco
- chilly → frío
- freezing → helado / congelado
Water freezes at 0ºC (32ºF) / water boils at 100ºC (212ºF).
Rain
- flood → inundación
- drizzle → llovizna
- showers → chispear
- rain → lluvia
- downpour → chaparrón
Clouds (nubes)
- cloudy → nublado
- gloomy → gris
- overcast → cubierto
- foggy → con niebla
- clear → despejado
Cold (frío)
- blizzard → tormenta de nieve / ventisca
- hail → granizar
- sleet → aguanieve
- snow → nieve
- snowflake → copo de nieve
Wind (viento)
- hurricane → huracán
- breeze → brisa
- blustery → ventoso
- windy → con viento
- gale → vendaval
Other Vocabulary
- mist → neblina
- forecast → pronóstico
- drought → sequía
- lightning → relámpago / rayo
- rainbow → arcoíris
- thunder → trueno
- mild → apacible / tranquilo
Travel Chaos Vocabulary
- disruption → perturbación
- stranded → varado / atrapado
- grounded → anclado / en tierra
- blocked → bloqueado
- delay → retrasar
Recommend and Suggest
Recommend
- recommend + -ing → recommend changing...
- recommend that + subject → recommend that you change...
Advise
- advise + to → advertencia seria
Suggest
- suggest + -ing
- suggest that
Guidebook Phrases
- lined up with → poner en una línea
- make sure → asegurarse
- take advantage of → aprovechar (not "tomar el pelo")
- be sure → estar seguro
- check out → mirar / echar un vistazo
Describing Attractions
- touristy → turístico
- overrated → sobrevalorado
- lively → animado
- packed → lleno
- affordable → asequible
- worth + -ing → algo importante
First Conditional
will + verb (base form), if + verb (present simple)
Art Vocabulary
- vase → jarrón
- brush → brocha / pincel
- wood carving → tallado en madera
- landscape → paisaje
- watercolour → acuarela
- canvas → lienzo
- still life → bodegón
- raw material → materia prima
- oil paint → pintura al óleo
- tapestry → tapiz
- easel → caballete
- portrait → retrato
- pastels → pasteles / colores