| A bit blowy | Gale or severe gales with gusts of 70 knots (Scotland only) |
| A bit more in the way of... | |
| 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 (Braine) |
| A lot of cloud around | Cloudy (Braine) |
| A mucky rush hour | A wet morning |
| A rash of showers | Occasional showers |
| And that's ya' forecast | No, that was your forecast (Fawkes) |
| Arctic bla(r)st | Northerly airstream |
| At the very best | Maximum temperature |
| 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 |
| Brisk winds | A fresh breeze (Beaufort force 5) |
| Chill | Cool or Cold |
| Chilly side | Cool or cold |
| Chilly start | |
| 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 |
| Cool | Temperatures below average or rather cold |
| Cool front | A trendy term for a cold front (Schafernaker) |
| Decent day | Dry and fair |
| Decent weather | Dry and fair |
| Disappointing temperatures | Cold or below average |
| Double digit temperatures | >=10°C |
| Double figures | Temperatures 10°C or higher |
| Drift its way northward | Moves slowly north (Lear) |
| Drifts southwards | Moves south |
| Driving rain | Moderate/heavy rain |
| Dying out | A period of rain or snow coming to an end |
| Ease | Winds or showers dying out |
| East west split | Contrasting weather between west and east (Fish) |
| Eastern zone | Eastern England and Scotland |
| Factor in the strength of the wind | Wind chill |
| Fair amount of sunshine around | |
| Fairly bright | Sunny intervals |
| Fast moving ribbon of wind high up in the atmosphere | Jet stream |
| Feeding there way in | |
| Feeling cold | Cold |
| Feeling cooler due to the wind | No the temperature will be exactly the same |
| Feeling warm | Warm |
| Feels like | Wind chill |
| Fizzle (out) | A period of rain or snow coming to an end |
| Flurries | Occasional snow showers |
| Flurries of sleet or snow | A sleet flurry? You'll be lucky |
| For many | But not for all |
| For some... | Everywhere bar the north of Scotland |
| For the majority | The southeast of England |
| From the word go | Dawn? (Kettley) |
| 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 | Usually a developing frontal system in a satellite picture (Giles) |
| Gusty | winds moderate occasionally fresh or strong |
| Hard frost | Moderate or severe frost who knows! |
| Hefty shower | Moderate shower |
| Here are the numbers | Temperatures (Corbett) |
| High pressure in charge | Anticylonic situation |
| Highs of 21 | Maximum temperature 21°C (Corbett) |
| 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 an indecent spell |
| In old money | Degrees Fahrenheit (Corbett) |
| Increasingly cloudy | Clouding over |
| It's all change | |
| It's not going to be very warm | Cold |
| 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 wind and rain |
| Light frost | Slight frost |
| Lose the heat | Turning cooler |
| Lose the rain | Turning dry |
| Lots of cloud around | Cloudy |
| Lots of isobars | Very strong gradient |
| Lots of sunshine around | Sunny spells |
| Lovely spells of sunshine | Sunny spells |
| Low cloud dragged in off the North Sea | Haar down the east coast |
| Low pressure firmly in charge | A cyclonic situation |
| Low single figures | 0 to 5°C ?? |
| Low starting to fizzle | Filling |
| Making its way | Moving |
| Many places | But not necessarily where you are |
| Messy chart/situation | When the weathercaster has a more complicated forecast than usual to present |
| Meteorological Autumn | The one used by climate statisticians because they can only divide by 3 |
| Mist and murk | Misty |
| Most places | Not some places |
| North south split | The weather in the north will be markedly different from in the south (Fish) |
| Northeren | North (Kirkwood) |
| Not a cold night | Mild |
| Not amounting to very much | Mainly dry (Giles) |
| Not feeling very warm | Cold (weathercasters aversion to use the word 'cold' never fails to amaze me) |
| Not much in the way of sunshine | Overcast |
| Not particularly warm | Cold |
| Not wall to wall sunshine | Sunny intervals |
| Nuisance shower | Scattered light showers |
| On the cool side | Temperatures below average |
| Other areas | Anywhere apart from the southeast |
| Our weather front continues its journey sinking southwards | Front moves south |
| Outbreaks of rain | Occasional rain |
| Part two of the weekend | Sunday |
| Patchy cloud | Variable cloud |
| Patchy fog | Fog patches |
| Patchy frost | Ugh |
| Patchy rain | Occasional rain |
| Peak | Maximum temperature |
| Pick up a brisk wind | Winds will strengthen |
| Pinch of frost | Touch of frost |
| Pockets of frost | Perhaps an improvement on a patchy equivalent (Bett) |
| Pretty breezy | Moderate or fresh |
| Pretty chilly | Cold |
| 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 (Kirkwood) |
| Sharp frost | Moderate or severe frost who knows |
| 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 |
| Sinks its way down | Move south (Kirkwood) |
| Slam | Used to describe any kind of named storm |
| Sleety showers | Showers of rain and snow |
| Sliding its way | |
| 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 |
| Southeren | South (Kirkwood) |
| Spilling south/north/east/west | Moving southward |
| Spits and spots | Occasional rain |
| Splashes of rain | Occasional rain |
| Sprinkles | Light showers (Schafernaker) |
| Squeeze a few showers | |
| Stormy | Strong to gale force winds |
| Struck | Usually used to describe any kind of storm |
| Stubborn cloud | Remaining overcast |
| Summit snow | Different but a snow level would be preferable |
| Sunshine becoming hazy | Turning cloudy |
| Temperatures (really) struggling | Cold |
| Temperatures a bit subdued | Depressed temperatures (Lear) |
| Temperatures dip | |
| Temperatures in low single figures | Is that 1 or 2°C or could it be -8 or -9°C? |
| Temperatures no great shakes | Cold (Kettley) |
| Temperatures pretty disappointing for the time of year | Cold |
| Temperatures reaching the mid teens | 16°C |
| Temperatures remaining in double figures | 10°C or higher |
| Temperatures responding accordingly | Diurnal warming |
| That's ya' forecast | No, that was your forecast (Fawkes) |
| The bulk of the country | Everywhere except Scotland |
| The feel of things | How warm it is |
| The first part of the weekend | Saturday (Danaos) |
| The lion's share of the sunshine | |
| The second part of the weekend | Sunday (Danaos) |
| The white stuff | Snow |
| Tightly packed isobars | Very strong gradient |
| Top temperatures | Maximum temperatures (Lear) |
| 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 (Lear) |
| Useable weather | A Learism but what it means I haven't a clue |
| We could see 25°C | Temperatures could be as high as 25°C (it's hard to see temperature) |
| We could see 40 mm of rain | There could be as much as 40 mm of rain (hard to see rainfall totals) |
| We switch wind directions | The wind either veers or backs - but because they think the viewers won't understand the word 'veer' they prefer to use switch |
| We'll lose the showers | Showers petering out |
| We're changing the wind direction | Like Gods they can command the winds! |
| We're looking at... | Who knows? (Kirkwood) |
| Weak sunny spells | For use in places close to the Arctic circle perhaps |
| Weather bomb | Explosive cyclogenesis |
| Where temperatures should be | Average |
| Winds all over the place | Variable winds |
| Winds going anti-clockwise | Anticyclonic |
| Winds switch direction | Veer or back |
| Windy | Fresh to strong winds |
| Wint(e)ry mix | When weathercaster don't know if it's going to rain, sleet or snow |
| Wint(e)ry showers | When weathercaster don't know if it's going to rain, sleet or snow |
| Winteriness | Hail, sleet or snow? |
| Work it's way | Rain will move in |
| Workable weather | I don't have a clue (Lear) |