Euphemisms

Presenter speak	Real Meaning
A change in wind direction	Veer/back
A drier day	It can only be wet or dry, or is that less rainfall?
A lot of clear skies around	Clear spells
A lot of cloud around	Cloudy
And that's ya' forecast	No, I think it was yours
Arctic blarst	Northerly airstream
Beast from the east	Easterly
Best of the sunshine	Sunniest place
Best of the temperatures	Best? really in these days of AGW - Highest temperature
Breezy	Moderate wind
Climate change	Climate crisis!
Clockwise winds	Cyclonic
Cloud bubbling up	Convection
Cloud building	Turning cloudy
Decent spells of sunshine around	What about the indecent ones?
Double digit temperatures	>=10°C
East west split
Fast moving ribbon of wind high up in the atmosphere	Jet stream
Feels like	Wind chill
From the word go
Front dies a death	Frontolysis
Global warming	Global heating
Global warming skeptic	Global heating denier!
Grass frost	Ground frost
Great mass of cloud
Here are the numbers	Temperatures
High pressure in charge	Anticylonic situation
Hills in Scotland	Unlike further south many of the hills are in fact mountains
In old money	degrees Fahrenheit
Keep a close eye on	See what the next run of the model looks like
Light frost	Slight frost
Lots of isobars/ tightly packed isobars	Very strong gradient
Low cloud dragged in of the North Sea	Haar down the east coast
Low starting to fizzle	Filling
Mist and murk	Misty
Most places	Not some places
Murray Firth	Moray Firth
Not much in the way of sunshine	Overcast
Not really amounting to very much	Occasional rain
Not wall to wall sunshine	Sunny intervals
Patchy rain	Occasional rain
Punchy showers	Heavy showers
Rain fizzling	Rain dying out
Single figure temperatures	Less than 10°C
Sinking south	Moving south
Sleety showers	Showers of rain and snow
Snow on the hills	Why not "snow above 300 metres" which would at least be a little more informative
Some places	Not most places
Splashes of rain	Occasional showers
Sprinkles	Light showers
Stormy	Strong to gale force winds
Stubborn cloud	Remaining overcast
Sunshine becoming hazy	Turning cloudy
Temperatures in low single figures	Is that 1 or 2°C or could it be -8 or -9°C?
Temperatures no great shakes	Temperatures near average
Temperatures reaching the mid teens	16°C
Temperatures remaining in double figures	10°C or higher
Temperatures responding accordingly	Warming quickly
Temperatures struggling	Cool or cold
The white stuff	Snow
Top tempearature	Maximum temperature
Turning to snow over the hills	Usually it's not turning to snow, it's already falling as snow, and has been all along
We're looking at...	Are we?
Weather bomb	Explosive cyclogenesis
Winds all over the place	Variable wind
Winds going anti-clockwise	Anticyclonic
Windy	Fresh to strong winds