U36 Chilly: cold but not very Frosts: thin white coaat of ice on everything Sleet: rain and snow ... more U36 Chilly: cold but not very Frosts: thin white coaat of ice on everything Sleet: rain and snow mixed Slush: dirty, brownish, half-snow, holf-water Settling: staying as a white covering Blizzards: snow blown by high winds Snowdrifts: a mass or bank of snow piled up by the wind Freezing: when temperatures are below 0° centigrade To thaw: to change from hard, frozen state to softer state To melt: to change from solid to liquid under heat Close: warm and uncomfortable Stifling: hot, uncomfortable, you can hardly breathe Muggy: very warm and a little damp Hum: hot and damp, makes you sweat a lot Scorching: very hot, often used in positive contexts Boiling: very hot, often used in negative contexts Mild: warm at a time when it is normally cold Heatwave: very hot, dry period Damp: slight wet; humid Drizzle: to rain gently in fine, mistlike drops Pour down: to rain Downpour: a heavy fall of rain Torrential rain: pouring or flowing fast, violently, or heavily Flood: an overflowing of water onto land that is normally dry Haze/hazy: light mist, usually caused by heat Mist/misty: light fog, otften on the sea, or caused by drizzle Fog/foggy: quite thick, associated with cold weather Smog: mixture of fog and pollution (Ex: The great smog of London) Breeze: a bit of wind Wind: moving air Blustery: a violent, gusty wind Gale: a wind with a speed of from 34 to 40 knots (39 to 46 miles per hour; 63 to 74 kilometers per hour), according to the Beaufort scale Hurricane: A wind with a speed greater than 64 knots Hail: precipitation in the form of spherical or irregular pellets of ice larger than 5 millimeters (0.2 inch) in diameter, usually associated with thunderstorms Drought: a long period of abnormally low rainfall, especially one that adversely affects growing or living conditions U37
U36 Chilly: cold but not very Frosts: thin white coaat of ice on everything Sleet: rain and snow ... more U36 Chilly: cold but not very Frosts: thin white coaat of ice on everything Sleet: rain and snow mixed Slush: dirty, brownish, half-snow, holf-water Settling: staying as a white covering Blizzards: snow blown by high winds Snowdrifts: a mass or bank of snow piled up by the wind Freezing: when temperatures are below 0° centigrade To thaw: to change from hard, frozen state to softer state To melt: to change from solid to liquid under heat Close: warm and uncomfortable Stifling: hot, uncomfortable, you can hardly breathe Muggy: very warm and a little damp Hum: hot and damp, makes you sweat a lot Scorching: very hot, often used in positive contexts Boiling: very hot, often used in negative contexts Mild: warm at a time when it is normally cold Heatwave: very hot, dry period Damp: slight wet; humid Drizzle: to rain gently in fine, mistlike drops Pour down: to rain Downpour: a heavy fall of rain Torrential rain: pouring or flowing fast, violently, or heavily Flood: an overflowing of water onto land that is normally dry Haze/hazy: light mist, usually caused by heat Mist/misty: light fog, otften on the sea, or caused by drizzle Fog/foggy: quite thick, associated with cold weather Smog: mixture of fog and pollution (Ex: The great smog of London) Breeze: a bit of wind Wind: moving air Blustery: a violent, gusty wind Gale: a wind with a speed of from 34 to 40 knots (39 to 46 miles per hour; 63 to 74 kilometers per hour), according to the Beaufort scale Hurricane: A wind with a speed greater than 64 knots Hail: precipitation in the form of spherical or irregular pellets of ice larger than 5 millimeters (0.2 inch) in diameter, usually associated with thunderstorms Drought: a long period of abnormally low rainfall, especially one that adversely affects growing or living conditions U37
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