Speaking About The Weather In Spanish - Lingolex

El Tiempo - The Weather

Some basics about speaking about the weatherTalking about the weather: The first thing you notice when talking about the weather in Spanish is the use of "hace" and "hay" whereas in English we use "to be" e.g. It is sunny. = Hace sol. (literally It makes sun.) It is hot = Hace calorIt is very windy - Hace / Hay mucho viento

Asking about the weather:What's the weather like? = "¿Qué tiempo hace?" or "¿Cómo está el tiempo?"

Español	Inglés
una brisa / una brisa marina	a breeze / a sea breeze
un trueno	a clap of thunder, a thunderclap
un cielo/día despejado	a clear sky/day
un chaparrón	a cloudburst
un frente frío	a cold front
un turbión	a downpour
un chaparrón	a downpour
un relámpago	a flash of lightning
una inundación	a flood
vientos de fuerza nueve	a force nine gale
una noche de helada	a frosty  night
un viento fuerte, una vendaval	a gale
una racha	a gust of wind
una granizada	a hailstorm
una ola de calor	a heat wave
una fina capa de nieve	a light covering of snow
un chaparrón, un chubasco	a shower
una bola de nieve	a snowball
una tormenta, un temporal	a storm
un día tormentoso	a stormy day
un rayo	a streak of lightning
un día soleado	a sunny day
un claro	a sunny spell
un deshielo	a thaw
un nubarrón	a thundercloud
una veleta	a weather vane
borrascoso	blustery
el clima	climate
una nube	cloud
un chaparrón, un aguacero	cloudburst
húmedo	damp
grado	degree
una depresión atmosférica, una borrasca	depression
el rocío	dew
llovizna / lloviznar	drizzle / to drizzle
un relampagueo	flashes of lightning
la niebla	fog
una culebrina	forked lightning
escarcha	frost (white frozen dew)
los vientos (con intensidad) de tormenta	gale-force winds
los granizos, las piedras de granizo	hailstones
la nebulosidad, lo neblinoso	haziness
le cayó un rayo	he was struck by lightning
cálido	hot
húmedo	humid
la humedad	humidity
un huracán	hurricane
no me gusta cómo se está poniendo el tiempo	I don’t like the look of the weather
inestabilidad	instability/changeability
parece que va a llover	it looks like it's going to rain
hace nubes or está nublado	it’s cloudy
está lloviznando	it’s drizzling
hay niebla	it’s foggy
está helado	it’s frosty
hace calor	it’s hot
hay neblina	it’s misty
está abochornado	it’s muggy / clammy / close
está lloviendo	it’s raining
cae aguanieve	it’s sleeting
está nevado	it’s snowing
hace sol	it’s sunny
hace viento, está ventoso	it’s windy
hace fresquito hoy	It's chilly today
esperemos que no nos falle el tiempo	let’s hope the weather holds out
de bajas/altas presiones	low/high-pressure
la neblina	mist
el sereno	night dew
la lluvia	rain
chubascos aislados	scattered showers
la bruma	sea mist
aguanieve f.	sleet
chubascos de aguanieve	sleet showers
la nieve	snow
chubascos de nieve	snow showers
el sol	sun
insolación	sunstroke
seguimos con mal tiempo	the bad weather is still with us
el litoral	the coastal area (used in weather forecasts)
al jardín le vendría bien que lloviera un poco	the garden could do with a spot of rain
la previsión del tiempo para mañana	the outlook for tomorrow
la temperatura	the temperature
el tiempo	the weather
el tiempo nos estropeó los planes	the weather spoiled our plans
ha cambiado el tiempo	there’s been a change in the weather
los truenos	thunder
abochornarse	to become muggy
despejar	to clear up
inundar	to flood
helar	to frost
granizar	to hail
llover	to rain
llover a cántaros	to rain cats and dogs
capear el temporal	to ride out the storm
nevar	to snow
deshelar	to thaw
mañana hará tiempo seco	tomorrow will be dry
la turbulencia	turbulence
un tiempo revuelto	unsettled weather
esperamos tener buen tiempo durante las vacaciones	we’re hoping for good weather while we’re on holiday
si hace buen tiempo	weather permitting
el viento	wind
en la costa sur hace mejor tiempo;	you get better weather on the south coast

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