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English B2

The weather

TermDefinition
daytime temperatures are quite mild during the day
in late autumn towards the end of a period of time
days are misty, foggy and damp with clouds of small drops of water in the air, making it difficult to see things in the distance
winter arrives with frost thin, white layer of ice on surfaces when the weather is very cold
winter arrives with icy roads and severe weather extremely bad
as people expect
freeze
the ground starts to thaw change from hard, frozen state to softer state
the ice melts change from solid to liquid under heat
a tropical climate very hot, as in countries near the Equator
the weather is stifling hot, uncomfortable, you can hardly breathe
the weather is muggy very warm and a little damp
the weather is humid hot and damp, makes you sweat a lot
boiling hot days extremely hot
heatwaves may be common very hot, dry periods
wet weather scale gets stronger from left to right
shower (n) a short period of rain or snow
quite heavy rain during the night/ It rained heavily during the night
It was absolutely pouring down yesterday(v)/ There was a real downpour (n) a lot of rain in a short time
there is usually torrential rain most days/downpour/storm used to refer to very heavy rain
flood (n)/(v); roads smtm get flooded/ there are floods on the roads
the sky`s a bit overcast very cloudy
we has a drought last summer a long period when there is little or no rain
There was a gentle breeze on the beach, just enough to cool us calm wind
There was a very strong/high wind and my umbrella blew away to be moved to another place by wond or a current of air
There was a gale that day, so we didn’t go sailing very high wind
People stayed indoors because there was a hurricane on the way extremely high, dangerous wind
I`m well on the way to completing the report to be close to doing smth
the noun weather is uncountable We had great weather that day
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