Italian Weather Terms - Lawless Italian Vocabulary


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Understanding Italian weather terms is useful for deciding what to wear, planning what to do, and, of course, making small talk. Here are the most common Italian weather terms – click the links for sound files, or the (verbs) for lessons.

How’s the weather?		*Com’è il tempo?*
It's …		Fa …		(fare)
	cold		freddo
	cool		fresco
	hot		caldo
	nice out		bel tempo
	bad weather		brutto tempo

It’s …		È …		(essere)
	clear skies		chiaro sereno
	cloudy		nuvoloso
	humid		umido
	nice out		piacevole
	rainy		piovoso
	sunny		soleggiato

It's …		C’è …*
	foggy		nebbia
	sunny		il sole
	windy		vento

It’s one degree It’s ___ degrees		C’è un grado Ci sono ___ gradi**

There’s a storm		C’è una tempesta C’è un temporale

There’s …		Ci sono …
	lightning		fulmini
	thunder		tuoni

rain		la pioggia
to rain		piovere
It’s raining		Sta piovendo		(stare)
It’s pouring		Sta piovendo a dirotto Sta piovendo a secchiate Sta piovendo pesantemente

snow		la neve
to snow		nevicare
It’s snowing		Sta nevicando

* Literally, these expressions mean "There is fog / sun / wind."

** Italians use Celsius for weather, so for example ci sono 30 gradi would mean that it’s hot (86°F), not the below freezing it would be in Fahrenheit.

Weather idiom: fare un freddo cane – to be bitterly cold