I.
noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ beautiful , excellent , fair , fine , glorious , good , great , ideal , lovely , nice , perfect , superb ( esp. BrE )
▪ adverse , appalling ( esp. BrE ), atrocious , awful , bad , dismal , dreadful ( esp. BrE ), foul , gloomy , grim ( esp. BrE ), horrible ( esp. AmE ), inclement , lousy , miserable , nasty , poor , rotten , rough , terrible
▪ hot , humid , muggy , sultry , warm
▪ mild
▪ bright , clear , sunny
▪ calm
▪ dry
▪ reliable ( esp. BrE ), settled ( BrE )
▪ changeable ( esp. BrE ), fickle , uncertain , unpredictable , unsettled
▪ extreme , fierce , harsh , severe , violent , wild
▪ bitter , chilly , cold , freezing , frosty ( esp. BrE ), icy , wintry
▪ cool
▪ cloudy , grey/gray
▪ damp , rainy , wet
▪ foggy
▪ blustery , stormy , windy
▪ autumn ( esp. BrE ), fall ( AmE ), spring , summer , winter
▪ unseasonable , unseasonably … , unseasonal ( esp. BrE )
▪
a spell of unseasonably warm ~.
▪ local
… OF WEATHER
▪ spell
VERB + WEATHER
▪ enjoy
▪
I've been enjoying this beautiful ~.
▪ have
▪
We've had great ~ all week.
▪ brave
▪
Deciding to brave the ~, he grabbed his umbrella and went out.
▪ forecast , predict
▪ check
▪
I checked the ~ this morning.
WEATHER + VERB
▪ clear , clear up , improve , warm up
▪
We'll go just as soon as this ~ lets up.
▪ hold , hold out ( BrE ), hold up , keep up
▪
If the ~ holds out we could go swimming later.
▪ threaten
▪
Bad ~ threatened.
▪ break , deteriorate , worsen
▪
It was sunny until the weekend, but then the ~ broke.
▪ become sth , get sth , turn sth
▪
Next day the ~ turned cold.
▪ look sth
▪
The ~ looks beautiful today.
▪ remain sth , stay sth
▪ continue
▪ close in ( esp. BrE ), set in
▪
The ~ closed in and the climbers had to take shelter.
▪
I wanted to mend the roof before the cold ~ set in.
▪ come
▪
According to the forecast, there is a lot more wet ~ to come.
▪ allow , permit
▪
I sat outside as often as the ~ allowed.
▪
We're having a barbecue next Saturday, ~ permitting.
(You cannot say ‘weather allowing’.)
▪ prevent sth
▪
Stormy ~ prevented any play in today's tennis.
▪ let sb down ( BrE )
▪ change
▪ bring sth out
▪
The fine ~ brings out butterflies.
WEATHER + NOUN
▪ conditions
▪
The plane crashed into the sea in adverse ~ conditions.
▪ patterns , system
▪
the effects of global warming on the world's ~ patterns
▪
Atlantic ~ systems
▪ forecast , report
▪ data , information , records
▪ event
▪
an increase in extreme ~ events
▪ satellite , station
▪ centre/center
▪ chart , map
PHRASES
▪ a change in the ~
▪
We hadn't bargained for such a dramatic change in the ~.
▪ in all ~ ( esp. AmE ), in all ~ conditions , in all ~s ( BrE ), whatever the ~
▪
The lifeboat crews go out in all ~(s).
▪
He swims in the sea every day, whatever the ~.
▪ the vagaries of the ~ ( BrE ), the vagaries of ~ ( AmE )
▪
She packed to cope with the vagaries of New York's ~.
II.
verb
1 pass safely through sth
ADVERB
▪ successfully , well
▪
Their company had ~ed the recession well.
VERB + WEATHER
▪ manage to ( figurative )
▪
The company has managed to ~ the storm.
2 change in appearance because of the sun/air/wind
ADVERB
▪ badly
▪
Some of the stone has ~ed badly.
▪ naturally
Weather is used with these nouns as the object: ↑ crisis , ↑ downturn , ↑ recession , ↑ storm