TRAIN YOUR EAR!! -- ENTRENANDO EL OÍDO

Today, I will post a video of a Women who goes out of her way to get the pickpockets in Barcelona, Spain. I remember when I was young, my grandparents went to Spain. My grandfather was surprised about how fast they were. His pockets were picked, while a gentleman cleaned his shoes! Lucky for him, he did not carry all their money in the same place!

Don't worry, it has subtitles in English.

El Clima y El Tiempo

El Clima y El Tiempo
(The Weather )

As with most languages, there are many ways to describe or talk about the weather in Spanish.This lesson covers most of the commonly used words and expressions. Many weather conditions are expressed with hace. The adjective mucho is used with the nouns frío, calor, viento, and sol to  express very.

¿Qué tiempo hace?	What's the weather like?
Hace calor.	It's hot.
Hace mucho calor.	It's very hot.
Hace frío.	It's cold.
Hace mucho frío.	It's very cold.
Hace viento.	It's windy.
Hace mucho viento.	It's very windy.
Hace sol.	It's sunny.
Hace mucho sol.	It's very sunny.
Hace fresco.	It's cool.
Hace buen tiempo.	It's good weather.
Hace muy bien tiempo.	It's very good weather.
Hace mal tiempo.	It's bad weather.
Hace muy mal tiempo.	It's very bad weather.
Está nublado.	It's cloudy/ (overcast)

Está muy nublado	It's very cloudy. (overcast)
Llueve. Está lloviendo.	It rains. It's raining.
Nieva. Está nevando.	It snows. It's snowing.
Hay mucha contaminación.	There is a lot of pollution.

If we are able to feel in our bodies the weather phenomenon, we used the verb "hacer" in third person "hace"

Hace frio (It's cold)
Hace calor (It's hot)
Hace sol (It's sunny)
Hace viento (It's windy)
Hace fresco (It's fresh)

 Describing the weather with esta + haciendo

Está haciendo frio (It's cold)
Está haciendo calor (It's hot)
Está haciendo viento (It's windy)

Note: If we are able to feel in our bodies the weather phenomenon another way to express it is using verb "hacer" in the gerund form "haciendo".

Describing the weather with hay

Hay neblina (There is fog)
Hay nubes (There are clouds)
Hay mucha nieve (There is a lot of snow)
Hay mucho sol (There is a lot of sun)

Note: If we are able to see the weather phenomena we used "Hay".

Describing the weather with está + adjective



Está nublado (It's cloudy)
Está soleado (It's sunny)

Está caluroso (It's hot)
Está lloviendo (It's rainy)
Está nevando (It's snowing)

Note: If we are experiencing a condition as a result of a specific weather phenomenon we used "estar+adjective".

In the case of the ambient temperature, the term caluroso is used. When  the term  "caliente" (hot) is used by people who do not read or understand only english, in which hot is used for both meanings. 

General Note: We Spanish speakers don't think much about which of the forms we need to apply according to the conditions of the weather. We just say it from memory or by intuition. So don't worry about particular rules. Just memorize this general expressions and you will be fine.

Idioms for the Weather in Spanish  

¡Que frio! (How cold!)
¡Que calor! (How hot it is!)
¡Que mal tiempo! (What a bad weather!)
¡Que buen tiempo! (What a good weather!)
El clima está muy agradable. (The weather is very nice)
El clima está pésimo. (The weather is so bad)

Note:
Clima (weather)
Tiempo (time and weather depending of the context)