Is It Still Raining Outside

Rain is a fact of life! We tin't fight it.

English language speakers talk about the weather a lot! It'due south a mutual topic of pocket-sized talk*. You volition take a lot of short English conversations about the weather in an English language-speaking land!

(*Small talk is an informal, polite but friendly conversation virtually something that is ordinary and not important. It'due south the kind of conversation you have with the cashier at the grocery store or gas station.)

You don't have to judge how to talk about pelting. There are mutual phrases and sentences that yous tin can employ. We tin't predict what everyone is going to say in a chat, only information technology helps to be prepared!

1. "What'due south it similar outside? Is it raining?"

Yous can ask this question when you desire to know what'southward happening outside. Someone might also inquire you this question!

Hither are some more than questions you might hear:

What'southward the weather like?

How is information technology outside? Is information technology raining?

Is it even so raining out?

NOT: " ~~How is the weather like?~~ "

Out is sometimes used as a shortened form of outside.

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When you talk nigh atmospheric condition in English, use it.

Memorize: "It's sixteen degrees today". (Not: " ~~We have 16 degrees~~ ." or " ~~There are 16 degrees~~ .")

It is an empty field of study in this context. Information technology has no meaning and it doesn't take the place of some other discussion.

Notation: In Canada we measure out temperature in Celsius. In the US, temperature is measured in Fahrenheit.

2. "It'due south raining."

Sometimes in English language you don't need fancy, complex sentences. Simple sentences are just fine. The almost common thing to say most rain in English is, "It's raining."

At that place are different synonyms you tin can use depending on whether information technology is light rain or heavy rain.

"It's spitting."
Spitting is very light rain, rain that you lot can barely feel.

"It'south just spitting a picayune."

"Information technology'south drizzling."
Drizzling is more than than spitting, less than raining.

"It'southward been raining on and off all day."
On and off means starting & stopping, then starting again over a period of time.

"It'south pouring."
Pouring is very heavy rain.
"It is pouring rain outside!"

When I was a kid, nosotros used to sing a cute song:
"It'due south raining, it's pouring, the old human is snoring!"

iii. "It's really coming downward out there!"

Use this sentence to describe very heavy rain.

Pelting falls from the clouds. Though nosotros don't say, "pelting is falling," English speakers understand that this is the movement of rain. In this context, the phrasal verb come up down ways fall from the heaven in very large amounts.

Don't say " ~~The rain is really falling down~~ ."

Don't say " ~~information technology'south raining cats and dogs~~ ," either. You might hear this in movies and TV shows, and parents sometimes say it to their children, merely more often than not people don't say "information technology's raining cats and dogs."

four. "Have your umbrella. It looks like it's going to rain."

Sometimes you look at the clouds in the heaven and know that information technology's going to rain.

Note: Don't say " ~~It will rain~~ ." When you are predicting the weather, use be going to.

There are many ways to protect yourself from getting moisture in the rain. Yous can concord an umbrella over your caput. You tin vesture a raincoat or other kind of waterproof jacket. You lot tin wear rain boots or other kind of waterproof footwear.

5. "I've had enough of all this pelting!"

Sometimes rain is nice. I similar the sound of rain hit the roof of my house when I'm lying in bed at night. Withal, besides much rain is non nice!

When yous are bored, bellyaching, or angry with something or someone, use the expression "I've had plenty of … " Information technology means that you just don't desire to feel it anymore.

Alternative sentences:

Information technology'due south been raining not-stop for 3 days!

It'south been raining for 3 days straight!

The present perfect is used hither because the rain started in the past and continues in the present, and it will probably continue tomorrow!

The phrase "for < time menstruation > straight" is used to limited that something hasn't stopped or didn't end during that time menstruum. It means the aforementioned thing as "3 days in a row."

six. "We got caught in a downpour."

A downpour is a sudden, unexpected, heavy pelting, or a lot of rain in a brusk period of fourth dimension.

The phrase get defenseless in (something) means become unexpectedly affected by or involved in something. You weren't expecting pelting, and yous weren't expecting that it would first raining while you lot were walking or driving to a destination.

You lot can as well use be defenseless in (something) :

"We were caught in a downpour."

"We were caught in a storm."

A tempest is a combination of pelting, wind, and sometimes thunder & lightning.

7. "Allow's stay inside until the rain lets up."

The phrasal verb let up means stop completely, or at least get slower. Say this sentence when want to wait until the rain stops.

Let's (with an apostrophe) is a contraction of let united states of america.

8. "I got soaking wet."

Sometimes in life you can't escape the rain. Sometimes it starts raining on the mean solar day when you forgot your umbrella at home. When you are in the pelting, you lot get wet.

wet
Wet is an adjective that you tin use to draw both the weather condition and h2o. If the weather condition is wet, it's raining.

My clothes are moisture from the rain.

Nov is a miserable month. It's cold and dark and moisture.

It'south going to exist a cold, wet morning.

It'southward going to be a moisture one tomorrow!

It's going to be a wet and windy 24-hour interval.

soaking
Soaking is a synonym of wet. You lot use soaking by itself or before wet. Use soaked past itself. They both hateful very, very wet.

I went out for a bike ride and got soaking wet in the pelting.

I got soaking wet while I was walking habitation in the rain.

My wearing apparel are soaking! We were out in the pelting for hours.

It was an outdoor concert. I got soaked in the rain, but it was worth it!

I am soaked to the bone.

9. "The forecast calls for scattered showers."

A atmospheric condition forecast is something you see on Tv, hear on the radio, or read in the paper. A meteorologist (a person who studies the conditions) tells people what the weather will be like. A forecast is a meteorologist'due south prediction about the weather.

The vocabulary used in atmospheric condition forecasts is different from the vocabulary used in everyday conversations when you talk about the atmospheric condition.

When you are talking about the weather forecast, employ the phrasal verb call for (something) . It means say that this kind of weather condition will probably happen.

In the context of rain, a shower is a short catamenia of rain in a small expanse.

Scattered means spread over a wide area. Scattered showers are periods of lite rain happening in a few places, not just in ane place. At that place might exist a quick shower in the southern function of the city, and then a quick shower in the northern part of the city.

Nosotros have a maxim in Canada & the US: "April showers bring May flowers." Tt rains a lot in April, but the h2o volition aid the flowers grow!

Precipitation is a formal word for rain and is sometimes used in weather condition forecasts.

Practise yous have any interesting expressions in your language to say when information technology's raining?