Weather Vocab
Essential Weather Vocabulary
Le temps: Weather / Time
La météo: Weather forecast
Le soleil: Sun
La pluie: Rain
Le vent: Wind
La neige: Snow
L'orage (m.): Thunderstorm
Le nuage: Cloud
Le brouillard: Fog
La température: Temperature
Demain: Tomorrow
Hier: Yesterday
Common Expressions with "Il fait"
Il fait beau: The weather is nice
Il fait mauvais: The weather is bad
Il fait chaud: It is hot
Il fait froid: It is cold
Il fait du soleil: It is sunny
Il fait du vent: It is windy
Il fait gris: It is overcast
Weather Action Verbs
Il pleut: It is raining (verb: pleuvoir)
Il neige: It is snowing (verb: neiger)
Il gèle: It is freezing (verb: geler)
Important Idioms and Sayings
Pleuvoir des cordes: To rain cats and dogs (literally "to rain ropes")
Un temps de chien: Terrible weather (literally "a dog's weather")
Il fait un froid de canard: It is bitterly cold (literally "a duck's cold")
Après la pluie, le beau temps: Every cloud has a silver lining (literally "after the rain, good weather")
Parler de la pluie et du beau temps: To make small talk (literally "to talk about rain and good weather")