Hello ladies and gentlemen. The weather is lovely and warm, finally, and here's what we Brits say 👇😎🇬🇧
It is .... outside (very hot: most of these are rather informal in use and are used to really exaggerate... as we Brits do)
- baking
- boiling
- roasting
- sweltering
- scorching ( a scorcher)
- sizzling (like when frying hot food)
- I spent the day under the umbrella because it was baking and i needed to protect my sensitive bald head. 👴
- I sat all day under the scorching sun... hence why i now look like a dried grape.
- The weather forecast says tomorrow will be an absolute scorcher. So it's bikini time!!! - Yeah, I heard it's going to be sweltering tomorrow, blin!
Collocations: ☀☀☀
- Blisteringly hot
- Scorching hot (compound adj)
- under the blazing sun (very hot and bright sun)
- Under the sizzling sun
We have these words (adjectives):
- humid (when the weather is hot with water vapour in the air: the standard word)
- sticky (when it's a very humid day - like today in Moscow)
- sultry (hot and humid)
- muggy (unpleasantly hot and humid; semi-formal)
