A “thunder-drop” is an old English term for one of the large, heavy drops of rain that, as the surprisingly poetic words of ...

Petrichor (pronounced peh-truh-kor) is a term that was coined in the 1960s to describe the distinctive warm and earthy smell ...

Daggler: Another variant English term for icicle in Hampshire. Eit: In Gaelic, a word referring to placing quartz stones in streams so they sparkle in the moonlight, thereby attracting salmon in ...

Word clocks are pretty popular “artsy” ways of telling time, but [doktorinjh] wanted to try something a little different. So instead of showing the time — it shows the weather. He’s using ...

Surely the best Scots word for Scots weather is 'braw ... This video clip will be relevant for teaching English at KS3 in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and at third level in Scotland.

examples and activities you need to become an English vocabulary champion - in just 6 minutes. Topics include adjectives, suffixes, phrasal verbs, lexical sets, weather words, homophones and much ...

Welcome to this first edition of “Weather Word of the Week.” In this weekly segment, Meteorologist Derek Witt will explain the more technical terms of atmospheric science, and how they ...

enjoy worship or watch the Weather Channel. Meteorologists have become demigods in much of the public’s imagination. Their every word is trusted—even if, by definition, those words constitute only a ...