Weather words in Italian

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

italiano	English
Il tempo	The weather
Le previsioni del tempo Le previsioni meteo Il meteo	The weather forecast
Che tempo fa?	What's the weather like?
Fa caldo	It's hot / warm
Fa caldissimo	It's very hot
Il caldo é insopportabile	The heat is unbearable
Fa freddo	It's cold
Fa un po' freddo	It's a bit cold
Il fresco	It's cool
Comincia a far freddo	It's getting cold
È freddissimo	It's icy
Fa bello È piacevole	It's nice / fine
Fa bel tempo	It's beautiful weather
Che bella giornata	What a beautiful day!
Fa brutto tempo	It's bad weather
Fa cattivo tempo Fa un tempo orribile	It's awful weather
È umido	It's humid
Il vento	Wind
Tira vento C'è il vento	It's windy
È burrascoso	It's stormy
Il Sole	Sun
C'è il sole È soleggiato	It's sunny
La nuvola	Cloud
È nuvoloso	It's cloudy
C'è nebbia	It's foggy
La pioggia	Rain
Piove	It's raining
Nevica	It's snowing
La pioggia	rain
La grandine	hail
La neve	snow
Le nuage	cloud
Il tuono	thunder
Tuonare	to thunder
Il lampo	lightning
Lampeggiare	to lightning
L'arcobaleno	rainbow
Il temporale	storm
La temperatura	temperature
La nebbia	fog
C'è la nebbia	It's foggy
La foschia	Mist
Il gelo	Frost
È gelido	It's frosty
Il temporale	Storm

Idioms for heavy rain

italiano	English
Piove a catinelle	It's raining like from basins
Piove a dirotto	It's raining excessively
Piove che Dio la manda	It's raining [as if] God sends it

Other idioms for heavy rain in various languages

Hear Italian words for weather:

Links

More weather words in Italian
http://www.italianlanguageguide.com/vocabulary/weather.asp
https://quizlet.com/11939/italian-weather-flash-cards/
https://www.rocketlanguages.com/italian/lessons/weather-in-italian

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