When we talk about the weather, sometimes we use adjectives and sometimes we use nouns. We often form these adjectives by adding -y to the nouns.

It has been rainy the whole week. We got 5 cm of rain in just one day.

In Bali, it is often misty in the morning. However, the mist disappears by 9 or 10 a.m.

For nouns which end in -e, we change the -e to -y.

The roads are covered with ice. Be careful when you drive on icy roads.

The sun is shining brightly today. I love sunny days.

For some short nouns, we double the last consonant before adding -y.

Change the following nouns into adjectives.

breeze breezy ice icychill chilly mist mistycloud cloudy rain rainydrizzle drizzly shower showeryfog foggy snow snowyfrost frosty storm stormygloom gloomy sun sunnyhaze hazy thunder thunderyheat hot wind windyhumidity humid

The adjective ‘breezy’ is slightly different in meaning from its noun form ‘breeze’. ‘Breezy’ suggests the wind is blowing quite strongly while a ‘breeze’ is a gentle wind.

Practice

Complete the following sentences with the noun or adjective form of the words in the word box.breeze chill cloud drizzle fog frostgloom haze heat humidity ice mistrain shower snow storm sun thunder

1 In the desert, it is very hot in the daytime but quite at night.2 Close your eyes and feel the gentle on your face.3 The top of Mt Fuji is covered in all year round.4 I think it is just a . I don’t need an umbrella. I’ll wait for a while.

5 It is hot and in the summer in Hong Kong. You soon start to swe

at if you go outside.6 The season in Hong Kong usually starts in May.7 It was very up on the Peak yesterday. We couldn’t see

Victoria Harbour when we looked down from the top.8 The weather forecast said there’ll be and lightning tonight. Yo

u’d better stay at home.

rainy

chillybreeze

snowshower

foggy/hazy/misty

humid

thunder