Vocabuary and Idioms about Rain
Types of Rain
| Damp | slightly wet (often after the rain has stopped) |
| Drizzle | to rain lightly with very fine drops |
| Shower | a short period of rain |
| Downpour | heavy rain |
| Pour | to have heavy rain |
| It’s raining cats and dogs | to rain heavily |
| Torrential rain | very heavy rain |
| Flood | to become covered in water usually due to excessive rain |
Idioms
Come rain or shine: no matter whether it rains or the sun shines; in any sort of weather.
It never rains but it pours: Good (or bad) things do not just happen a few at a time, but in large numbers all at once
Come in out of the rain: to wake up to reality
As right as rain – Feeling fine and healthy.
Types of Wind
| Breeze | a gentle wind (often nice or refreshing) |
| Blustery | blowing (strong) gusts of wind |
| Windy | continual wind. |
| Gale | a very strong wind |
Hurricane/cyclone/typhoon: a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce winds and heavy rain.
They are the same thing just with different names because of the region they are in.
Atlantic/Northeast Pacific = a hurricane
Northwest Pacific = a typhoon
Southern Hemisphere = a cyclone
Tornado: strong violent circular winds in a small area; a rapidly revolving column of air
In United States the word twister is often used instead of tornado.
