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A list of weather terms

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Here are some very useful weather terms:

  1. está soleado - it's sunny
  2. está nublado - it's cloudy
  3. está lloviendo - it's raining
  4. está nevando - it's snowing
  5. está brumoso - it's foggy
  6. está despejado - it's a clear day
  7. hace frío - it's cold
  8. hace calor - it's hot
  9. hay mucha humedad - it's very humid
  10. hace sol - it's sunny
  11. hace mucho sol/viento - it's really sunny/windy
  12. hace demasiado frío - it's too cold
  13. hay mucha lluvia - there's a lot of rain
  14. estamos a diez grados - it's ten degrees
  15. hace más frío que ayer - it's colder than yesterday
  16. está lloviendo más que ayer - it's raining more than yesterday
  17. es un día... - it's a...

...brumoso - ...foggy day

...lluvioso - ...rainy day

...neblinoso - ...misty day

...nublado - ...cloudy day

...soleado - ...sunny day

...ventoso - ...windy day

Weather in the future:

  1. va a llover - it's going to rain
  2. va a nevar - it's going to snow
  3. va a hacer frío - it's going to be cold
  4. va a ser un día soleado - it's going to be a sunny day
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updated Jun 24, 2012
edited by --Mariana--
posted by --Mariana--
Thank you! How's hail? - caicara, Aug 5, 2010
Granizo. - kenwilliams, Aug 5, 2010
Very useful Marianne :). Are you going to make a reference article? - --Jen--, Aug 5, 2010
Eres una genio, ya sabes cuanto lo necesito, gracias,jaja - melipiru, Aug 9, 2010
Thank you, even though I cannot figure out why this is here as it is not from this year- A few topics like this would be very nice in the reference section. - Stadt, Oct 12, 2011

6 Answers

4
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And preceding the shipping forecast hopefully: No hay temporal = There are no gale warnings.

updated Aug 9, 2010
posted by kenwilliams
3
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I've seen a number of questions regarding the weather, so I'm bumping this up for the newbies.

updated Jun 24, 2012
posted by --Mariana--
Gracias, Mariana. :) - iana01, Jun 23, 2012
Thanks. - katydew, Jun 24, 2012
3
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Thanks a lot Mariana that you are posting this again. : )) This is really very useful an helpful. It helps a lot. ¡Muchísimas gracias!

updated Jun 24, 2012
posted by iana01
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This helped me a lot to learn the differences with "hace" and "está."

updated Aug 9, 2010
posted by crazy_for_sugar
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Nice list Marianne, that's going with me on the next road trip. Now how about ordinal numbers, you can start with twentieth.smile

updated Oct 12, 2011
posted by Yeser007
Great idea, Yesero - melipiru, Aug 9, 2010
Thanks Meli, it was also a joke based on her "Things we can do without" answer. - Yeser007, Aug 9, 2010
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Thanks.

updated Oct 12, 2011
posted by Steve_Rivera