Weather words in Spanish

Weather words and weather-related expressions in Spanish with English equivalents.

Spanisho	English
El tiempo	The weather
El pronóstico del tiempo El boletín El meteorológico	The weather forecast
¿Qué tiempo hace? ¿Cómo está el tiempo?	What's the weather like?
Hace calor	It's hot / warm
Hace mucho calor	It's very hot
El sol	Sun
Está soleado	It's sunny
Hace un día soleado	It's a sunny day
¡Que clima tan agradable!	What nice weather!
Hace buen tiempo	The weather is fine
Hace bel tempo	It's beautiful weather
Hace fresco	It's cool
Hace frío	It's cold
Hace mucho frío	It's very cold
Hace un frío helador	It's icy cold
Hace mal tiempo	It's bad weather
El viento	Wind
Hace viento	It's windy
Una racha	A gust of wind
La brisa	Breeze
Un viento fuerte	A gale
La nuvola	Cloud
Está nublado	It's cloudy
La niebla	fog
Hay niebla	It's foggy
La niebla	Mist
Hay neblina	It's misty
Hay humedad	It's humid
La lluvia	Rain
Está lloviendo	It's raining
La llovizna, la garúa	Drizzle
Está lloviznando	It's drizzling
las aguanieve	Sleet
Cae aguanieve	It's sleeting
La granizo	Hail
Está granizando	It's hailing
La nieve	Snow
Está nevando	It's snowing
Un trueno	Thunder
Un rayo	A bolt of lightning
El arco iris	rainbow
La temperatura	Temperature
La helada	Frost
Está helado	It's frosty
Una tormenta	A storm
Está tormentoso	It's stormy
Hace un día tormentoso	It's a stormy day
Un chaparrón	A cloudburst

Idioms for heavy rain

Spanisho	English
Está lloviendo a cántaros	It's raining in jugfuls
Está lloviendo a cubos	It's raining buckets
Está lloviendo a chuzos	It's raining pikes
Está lloviendo a mares	It's raining seas
Está lloviendo a torrentes	It's raining in torrents
Estan lloviendo hasta maridos	It's even raining husbands

Other idioms for heavy rain in various languages

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Links

More weather words in Spanish
https://www.rocketlanguages.com/spanish/vocabulary/weather-in-spanish
http://www.spanishvocabulary.ca/weather/weather_in_spanish.html
http://spanish.yourdictionary.com/spanish-language/learning-spanish/vocabulary-words-for-weather-in-spanish.html

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