Euphemisms

Presenter speak	Real Meaning
A bit more in the way...
A change in wind direction	Veer/back
A drier day	Less wet than yesterday
A fair bit of cloud around	Rather cloudy
A fairly decent kind of day	Fair
A little bit soggy	Wet
A lot of clear skies around	Long clear spells
A lot of cloud around	Cloudy
A mucky rush hour	A wet morning
And that's ya' forecast	No, I think it was yours
Arctic blarst	Northerly airstream
Batter	Used to describe any kind of named storm
Beast from the east	Easterly
Best of the sunshine	Sunniest place
Best of the temperatures	Best? really in these days of AGW - are highest temperatures really the best?
Best of the weather
Bits and pieces of rain	Occasional rain
Blow that rain away	?
Blustery winds	Fresh or strong winds
Breezy	Moderate wind
Brighter breaks	Sunny intervals
Climate change	Climate crisis
Clockwise winds	Cyclonic
Cloud bubbling up	Convection
Cloud building	Turning cloudy
Cloud melting away	Cloud dispersing
Cloud starts to build from the west ahead of the front	Surely convective shower cloud builds but frontal cloud thickens?
Continues it's descent south	Moves south
Decent day	Dry and fair
Disappointing temperatures	Well below average
Double digit temperatures	>=10°C
Drift its way north	Move slowly north
Drift its way northward	Moves slowly north
Drifts southwards	Moves south
Driving rain	Moderate/heavy rain
Eastern zone	Eastern England and Scotland
East west split
Fair amount of sunshine around
Fairly bright	Sunny intervals
Fast moving ribbon of wind high up in the atmosphere	Jet stream
Feels like	Wind chill
Flurries	Occasional snow showers
Flurries of sleet or snow	A sleet flurry? You'll be lucky
For many	But not for all
From the word go
Front dies a death	Frontolysis
Global warming	Global heating
Global warming skeptic	Global heating denier
Good spells of sunshine	Sunny spells
Grass frost	Ground frost
Great mass of cloud
Hefty shower	Moderate shower
Here are the numbers	Temperatures
High pressure in charge	Anticylonic situation
Highs of 21	Maximum temperature 21°C
Hills in Scotland	Unlike further south many of the hills are in fact mountains
Hit	Used to describe any kind of named storm
Hit and miss showers	Scattered showers
In any decent spells of sunshines	As opposed to any indecent spells
Increasingly cloudy	Clouding over
In old money	Degrees Fahrenheit
It's all change
Keen wind	Fresh or strong
Keep a close eye on that	See what the next run of the model looks like?
Largely dry	As opposed to largely wet
Lash	Used to describe any kind of named storm
Light frost	Slight frost
Lose the heat	Turns cooler
Lose the rain	Turns dry
Lots of isobars/ tightly packed isobars	Very strong gradient
Lovely spells of sunshine	Sunny spells
Low cloud dragged in of the North Sea	Haar down the east coast
Lower end of single figures	10 to 13°C
Low pressure firmly in charge	A cyclonic situation
Low starting to fizzle	Filling
Many places	But not necessarily where you are
Meteorological Autumn	The one used by climate statisticians because they can only divide by 3
Mist and murk	Misty
Most places	Not some places
Murray Firth	Moray Firth
Not a cold night	Mild
Not amounting to very much	Mainly dry
Not much in the way of sunshine	Overcast
Not particularly warm	Cold/cool
Not wall to wall sunshine	Sunny intervals
Nuisance shower	Scattered light showers
Other areas	Anywhere apart from the southeast
Our weather front continues its journey sinking southwards	Front moves south
Outbreaks of rain	Occasional rain
Patchy cloud	Variable cloud
Patchy fog	Fog patches
Patchy rain	Occasional rain
Pick up a brisk wind	Winds will strengthen
Pinch of frost	Touch of frost
Pretty breezy	Moderate or fresh
Pulses	Of rain
Pummel	Used to describe any kind of named storm
Punchy showers	Heavy showers
Pushes its way eastward	Moves east
Rain fizzling	Rain dying out
Say goodbye to that weather front	Goodbye weather front
Scorchio	Hot
Sharp frost	Moderate frost
Sharp shower	Moderate perhaps heavy shower
Showers breaking out
Showers fading	Showers dying out
Showers start to fade
Single figure temperatures	Less than 10°C
Sinking south	Moving south
Slam	Used to describe any kind of named storm
Sleety showers	Showers of rain and snow
Smash	Used to describe any kind of named storm
Snow on the hills	Why not "snow above 300 metres" which would at least be a little more informative
Some places	Not most places
Spits and spots	Occasional rain
Splashes of rain	Occasional rain
Splashes of rain spilling southward	Occasional rain moving southward
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	Cool
Temperatures pretty disappointing for the time of year	Cool
Temperatures reaching the mid teens	16°C
Temperatures remaining in double figures	10°C or higher
Temperatures responding accordingly	Warming
Temperatures struggling	Cool or cold
The bulk of the country	Everywhere except the north of Scotland
The feel of things	Temperature
The lion's share of the sunshine
The wet weather will continues to work it's way northward	Rain will move north
The white stuff	Snow
Top temperatures	Highest temperatures
Turning increasingly blustery	Winds will strengthen
Turning to snow over the hills	Usually it's not turning to snow, it's already falling as snow, and has been all along
Usable rain	Light rain
We'll lose the showers	Showers petering out
We're looking at...	What are we looking at?
Weather bomb	A deepening area of low pressure
We could see 25°C	Temperatures could be as high as 25°C (hard to see temperatures)
We could see 40 mm of rain	There could be as much as 40 mm of rain (hard to see rainfall totals)
Winds all over the place	Variable wind
Winds going anti-clockwise	Anticyclonic
Winds switch direction	Veer or back
Windy	Fresh to strong winds
Wintery mix	Rain, sleet and snow