Weather Vocabulary Pronunciation
Weather Vocabulary Set 6: Sunny weather
sunshine – direct sunlight unbroken by cloud.
- Isabella usually had lunch in the canteen but today she bought a sandwich and ate it
in the sunshine.
sunny – bright with sunshine.
- Looking out at the pouring rain, Svetlana longed for a sunny day.
sunny spells – short periods of sunny weather.
- It was mostly cloudy for our trip to the zoo but there were some sunny spells in the
afternoon.
heatwave – a period of very hot weather.
- Summer weather in the UK can be very unpredictable but this year we had a
real heatwave.
to come out (the sun) – when the sun appears out of a cloudy sky.
- We were so pleased that the sun came out for our wedding photos as it had been a
bit of a dull day up to then.
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baking hot / boiling hot – very hot.
- Sunday was baking hot so Duong and his friends headed to the river for a swim.
scorcher – a very hot day.
- The day was a real scorcher, far too hot to be out in the sun for very long.
drought – a long period with no rainfall.
arid – having had little or no rain for a long time; too dry to support vegetation.
- Large areas of Australia are suffering from drought. The land has become arid and
cattle and sheep on the ranches are dying from a lack of food and water.
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