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Come Rain or Shine: Weather Lingo

Tue Nov 21 10:00:57 EST 2023
By Vocabulary.com (NY)Visual Thesaurus Moderator
If you've got your head in the clouds, this list of words related to weather and climate will be like a ray of sunshine. You don't need to be a meteorologist to know that this forecast calls for vocabulary!
atmosphere
It was misty, with heavy, lowering atmosphere, one afternoon, when Edna climbed the stairs to the pianist’s apartments under the roof.
barometer
Descartes knew all about this work—as we have mentioned, he suggested the idea of taking a barometer up a mountain to see how the pressure changed with altitude.
blizzard
Over the next several days, temperatures dropped into the teens, snow flurries turned into light snowstorms, which in turn became full-scale blizzards.
climate
Neanderthals, bulkier and more muscular than us Sapiens, were well adapted to the cold climate of Ice Age western Eurasia.
climate change
The combination of climate change and human hunting is particularly devastating for large animals, since it attacks them from different angles.
condensation
Tiny flowers of frost were etched across the windowpane, and I puffed my breath against the glass, watching it fog up and dragging my finger through the condensation.
current
The air was bumpy where warm currents met cold.
cyclone
In the winter the frigid air that flows north from the Pole creates one cyclone after another and collides with warmer air from the tropics, spinning off gales, hurricanes, and blizzards.
drought
In California, we were always worried about droughts, always conserving water.
evaporation
I listen for a while, recognizing some words from Understanding Our Universe—evaporation, pressure, water vapor.
forecast
The weatherman had forecasted a record high for the day of the meet.
global warming
Everyone who buys the furniture will have contributed to the destruction of the forest, and the destruction of the forest contributes to the process of global warming.
heat
More often than not, they labored as long as there was light, in the broiling heat.
heat wave
The heat wave had broken Saturday night, and citizens of Greenwood were in their yards and on the streets savoring the first day of fall-like weather.
humidity
“I hate the heat of late summer,” Polly remarked, her hair sticking to her face in the humidity.
hurricane
The National Hurricane Center had issued a watch for central Louisiana and warned that the hurricane could become a Category 5 by the time it made landfall.
ice age
One interesting theory, given our present-day concerns with global warming, is that the ice ages were caused not by falling temperatures but by warming ones.
lightning
The rain was lashing the valley, and thunder and lightning crashed across the mountains.
meteorologist
The cold front rolls in overnight, just as the meteorologists predicted.
meteorology
The naming of clouds was a great event in the history of meteorology, after which much more serious discussion and understanding were possible.
monsoon
A gust of wind blows out the candle, and the monsoon rain begins to fall.
precipitation
Warm weather would increase precipitation, which would increase cloud cover, which would lead to less snow melt at higher elevations.
pressure
The weather report was routine—even boring—with details about air pressure, wind speeds, and temperature maximums and minimums.
sleet
I wrapped myself in the blanket and moved out of the wind as the snow turned to sleet.
temperature
"The temperature is still below freezing. And all the other snowmen from yesterday are still around."
thermometer
It was a clear, black morning, encrusted with stars; the thermometer on the porch of Commons had sunk to zero.
tornado
To most people in Manson the biggest thing ever to happen was a tornado that rolled up Main Street in 1979, tearing apart the business district.
tropical
Archaeologists have traditionally avoided tropical forests, because the climate destroys all wood, cloth, and organic material—except for ceramics and stone, there is little left to dig up.
weather
November has brought even colder weather, and now our cubbies are jammed with scarves, hats, and heavy coats.
vane
Behind the house loomed an immense brown barn, at least five stories tall, topped by a weather vane.

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