Hello everybody! Welcome back to Easy English with James! Today we're going
look at 8 English expressions that you probably don't know
or haven't heard, but native speakers use all the time
to talk about the weather outside.
Ok, number 1! Let's get
started right away. "It's raining outside". Now
normally native speakers don't like to just say, "It's raining"
Ok. We use other expressions. Two of the most common expressions
are, "It's tipping it down". "It's tipping
it down". Ok. Let's look at that. "It's tipping it
down". That literally means it's raining very
heavily. Ok. Imagine, you have a big tub of
water. You are sitting in the sky, and you tip
that tub of water, (Swoosh!) and the water falls down.
ok. That's literally the meaning. Imagine almost like God
is up there tipping water on the planet! When it's really
heavy rain, we say, "It's tipping it down!" "It's tipping it down!"
Another version of this, very similar, a little bit
more slang-like is "It's lashing
it down". Some young people today might say, "Whoa, it's lashing it down
outside". Ok. It's lashing it down, or it's tipping
it down. Both of these mean very heavy rain. Ok. So the next
time you see really heavy rain, say, "Whoa, it's tipping it
down outside!" "It's absolutely tipping it
down" Absolutely adds even more emphasis to how heavy the
rain is. "It's absolutely tipping it down outside, don't go outside
because it's absolutely tipping it down!" Ok, let's move on to the next
one. The next one is for when it's cold
outside, but not too cold. Not
so cold that you don't want to ever go outside, but
cold enough that when you go outside, you feel,"ugh, it's not warm".
It's not hot, it's below warm. Native
British speakers might say something like, "Whoa, it's a bit
nippy". "It's a bit nippy outside".
"It's a bit nippy out here!" If you're standing outside.
"it's a bit nippy out here, isn't it?". We will usually use this
in a sort of rhetorical question form. "It's a bit nippy out here, isn't it?"
We don't need you to answer that question, it's just a statement that we're
saying......that we want validation, Ok. "It's a bit nippy out here isn't!"
"Yeah, yeah it is." Ok. Another
version of this is, "It's a bit chilly!" "It's a bit chilly out here
isn't it". " Yeah. " "I think I'm gonna go back inside because it's a little bit too
chilly out here, Ok. Let's have a look at
the next one. Ok. Now we have just 2 words! ok.
Both of them you probably know these, Ok. "Boiling
Boiling and, freezing.
Freezing. Ok. Boiling, you
probably know, means when something is this temperature. Ok. When it's
this temperature, that is 'boiling point'. Ok. But
when we are talking about the weather, "boiling" is something that
native english speakers use to describe any weather that is very very
hot. If you are outside or
inside and you are feeling uncomfortable. Ok.
It's so hot that you feel, "whoa, I need to take my clothes off
it's uncomfortable!". You would say, "It's boiling".
"It is boiling today!". Ok. It's boiling hot
outside. Or, "this room is boiling, can someone
please turn the air condioner on, it's boiling in here!". Ok.
The opposite of boiling is of course freezing.
Freezing. Freezing as you know is when the
temperatuere reaches this level. And at freezing
point, that's when you get things like ice and snow and all
these other wonderful things that we see in winter. But, when
we use freezing is NOT when it gets to this temperature. We use
freezing to describe any time that we feel
uncomfortably cold. Uncomfortable
again. Ok. Just like when we said boiling was uncomfortably hot.
Freezing is uncomfortably cold. If you go outside
your house in the winter and you've got two jackets
on, a jumper, a tshirt, but when you go outside
you are still like 'this', and it's really really cold. You would say,
"Woah! It's freezing today". "It's freezing out
here". "It's absolutely freezing out here!"
Ok. "Ugh! It's absolutely freezing, let's go back inside."
Ok. The same as, "It's absolutely boiling
let's go back inside!" It's boiling. It's freezing.
They are two very important words to use to describe those
uncomfortable temperatures. Ok. Much better than "It's very hot."
or, "It's very cold". Ok. These are sort of ......standard
learners of English will use "It's very hot outside". Native speakers,
not "it's very hot", "It's boiling" "It's absolutely boiling". Not, "it's
very cold". "It's freezing". "It's absolutely freezing".
Ok. Let's move on. Two more, that are very similar to
Boiling and Freezing, are...
"Hot as..." and "Cold as..."
"Hot as..." and "Cold as..." Both of these are very big
slang terms in English. Ok. You can add
a word onto the end like "Hot as hell!".
'Hell' as in that place nobody wants to go because its probably very hot.
"It's hot as hell, outside today" or "It's
cold as hell outside today." Don't ask me how that works" but both
of them mean a place that you don't really wanna be! Ok, "cold as hell"
"hot as hell". Some native speakers might even
use just "hot as!" and they'll change their intonation
like this. "Woah, it's hot AS outside
today". "It really is hot AS!". Listen carefully
to that "hot AS". That intonation
and tone shows that I mean it's hot as hell! To be
really hot as outside. Same with, "it's cold AS
outside". "I'm not going out there, it's cold AS!" Ok.
Both of them mean, 'to be very cold' or 'to be very
hot'. The next one is 'Drizzle'
'Drizzle' and 'drizzling'
Now, if you want to practice English pronunciation, this is a really good word to
do so, because there's lots of jaw movement here.
"Drizzle" or "Drizzling".
"Drizzling". Ok. "Drizzle" is
that little, light rain. When you go
outside and you think, "it's raining but I don't care"
"It's not (raining) enough to stop me from going outside" And it's just like you feel
one drop, "bup!" One drop "bup!". You might say, "it's
drizzling". "It's drizzling". Ok.
If somebody asks you, "what's the weather like?" and it's like that..
Just 'bup, bup'. You might say, "Just a little bit of drizzle".
"It's just a little of drizzle, don't worry". Somebody says, "James, James it's
raining outside!". "No, no, no, don't worry! It's just a little bit of drizzle".
ok. Not really heavy rain at all, no problem to go to work.
Ok. Just a little bit of drizzle. We also have this in England
with snow, Ok. I'm from England and in the
winter, especially in the North, we usually do get 'some' snow, but
sadly, it doesn't last very long and often it's
not very heavy snow, it's more like 'Sleet'.
Sleet. Sleet is like the kind of snow that
when it's in the sky it looks like snow, but when it hits the ground its sort of a
watery, mushy, gooey thing. ok.
And it doesn't look beautiful and white, ok, it usually looks
pretty horrible actually. ok. It's not nice, it's sort of a mix
of rain and snow together. That's "Sleet".
Sleet, Ok. You might sasy, "It's just a little bit of sleet".
"It's snowing its snowing!". "Nah, it's just a little bit of sleet".
Ok. The next one is for when it's very
windy outside. This is a very British expression.
We might say, "It's blowing a gale".
Blowing a gale. "It's blowing a gale" is when you look out the
window and you just see leaves and things in the street flying around
everywhere. It's really really windy. Also, when you can hear
outside that "whoooooooooshhhhh" wind sound . "It's
blowing a gale". 'It's blowing a gale' means, "it's so windy, I
don't think we should go outside". "It's blowing a gale out there, be careful!". Somebody
might say, "I'm gonna drive my motorbike to work". You say, "Ok
but be careful because it's blowing a gale outside so make sure
you be careful!" Ok. 'Blowing a gale' = very strong
winds. Very very strong winds. Or very windy.
ok. but again, native speakers will use, "blowing a gale!" before
they choose to use "very windy". Ok. The next one is the
word, "breeze". "breeze".
Now, breeze is usually a positive thing.
When you are sitting on the beach, relaxed, and it's so
hot that you're, sort of fanning yourself like this
and then all of a sudden this beautiful soft wind
comes over your body, and you feel "ahhh! That's soo
nice!" That is a breeze!
A breeze. And usually you'll say things like, "oh, there's a lovely
breeze today. A really lovely breeze today". Ok.
You can say there is a "chilly breeze" if the breeze is a
little bit cold. A "nice breeze" if the breeze is just
the right temperature. Or, a "warm breeze".
If it's a little bit warm, there's a lot of hot air moving. Ok.
If the breeze is happening frequently, that means you're getting a
"whooooshhhh" and then again "whoooooshhh". You might say, "ooh it's actually
breezy. It's a little bit breezy today. Ok it's a little bit
breezy outside". Ther's more than one, Ok.
The last one is when we're describing bad weather. Ok.
This can be any weather that you don't like. Ok
If you look outside your window and there is a type of weather that you
really don't like, then you can use the word, "Nasty"
"Wow, it's really nasty weather today!" "It's really nasty
weather." 'Nasty' usually means when you are not nice to someone.
Ok. If I have a little brother or a little
sister, and i'm sort not nice to them everyday. You could say,
"You're really nasty! You're really nasty, you're not nice to your brother!" Ok. "You're
nasty!" When you look outside and you see the weather and the weather is not
nice to you. The weather is being 'not nice' to you or to everyone.
say, "Woah!" It's really nasty weather today, really nasty weather!" "I'm
gonna stay in and watch TV all day, because the weather outside is
really nasty today. Ok. What are you gonna do and what
is the weather like are right now? Can you use any of the idioms
and expression we've learned today? Write them in the comments and let me know!
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