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100 Words to Describe Weather

June 4, 2026

100 Words to Describe Weather

No. Item Definition
1. airless lacking fresh moving air
2. arctic extremely cold
3. balmy pleasantly warm
4. biting sharply cold
5. bleak cold and miserable
6. blowy very windy
7. blustery with strong, noisy wind
8. breezy with a light wind
9. brisk cool and invigorating
10. bucketing down raining very heavily
11. calm with little or no wind
12. changeable likely to change quickly
13. chilly uncomfortably cool
14. clear free from clouds or haze
15. close stuffy and airless
16. cloudy covered with clouds
17. cold having low temperature
18. cool slightly cold
19. crisp pleasantly cold and fresh
20. deluge severe flood or heavy rain
21. dirty stormy or rainy
22. downpour sudden heavy rain
23. dreary dull and cheerless
24. driving rain rain blown hard by wind
25. drizzly with light rain
26. dry with little moisture
27. dusty full of blowing dust
28. electrical charged like before a storm
29. erratic irregular and unpredictable
30. fair pleasant and dry
31. flooding causing floods
32. foggy filled with thick mist
33. foul very bad weather
34. freezing extremely cold
35. frigid very cold
36. frosty with frost or freezing air
37. glacial icy cold
38. gloomy dark, dull, and depressing
39. glorious wonderfully sunny and pleasant
40. gray cloudy and lacking brightness
41. ground frost frost on the ground
42. gusty with sudden strong winds
43. hail falling balls of ice
44. hailing with hail falling
45. hailstorm storm with hail
46. hard frost severe freezing frost
47. hazy slightly obscured by haze
48. heatwave long period of great heat
49. hot having high temperature
50. humid with much moisture in air
51. icy covered with ice or very cold
52. inclement harsh and stormy
53. Indian summer unseasonably warm autumn weather
54. leaden heavy, gray, and dull
55. lowering dark and threatening
56. mild not very hot or cold
57. misty with light fog
58. mizzling drizzling lightly
59. muggy warm and humid
60. nasty unpleasant or harsh
61. nippy slightly cold
62. oppressive uncomfortably hot or heavy
63. overcast completely cloud-covered
64. patchy fog fog in scattered areas
65. pelting raining hard
66. piercing painfully cold
67. pouring raining very heavily
68. rainy having frequent or continuous rain
69. raw cold and damp
70. rough stormy and unpleasant
71. scorching very hot and intense
72. settled stable and calm
73. showery with intermittent rain
74. smoggy filled with smog
75. snowy with falling or lying snow
76. squally with sudden violent gusts
77. sticky uncomfortably humid
78. stifling extremely hot and airless
79. still without wind
80. stormy with storms or rough weather
81. sultry hot and humid
82. sunny bright with plenty of sunshine
83. sweltering extremely hot and humid
84. teeming raining heavily
85. tempestuous very stormy and turbulent
86. threatening looking likely to storm
87. thunderstorm storm with thunder and lightning
88. thundery suggesting thunder or storms
89. torrential falling in violent quantities
90. tropical hot and often humid
91. unseasonable unusual for the season
92. unsettled variable and storm-prone
93. violent very intense and severe
94. volatile changing suddenly and unpredictably
95. warm comfortably hot
96. whiteout snow causing near-zero visibility
97. wild violent and uncontrolled
98. windchill felt temperature from wind
99. windy with strong or noticeable wind
100. wintry typical of winter weather

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