Weather words in Finnish

Weather words and weather-related expressions in Finnish with English equivalents.

Finnish	English
sää, ilma	Weather
Sääennuste	Weather forecast
Millainen on sääennuste?	What is the weather forecast?
Millainen ilma tänään on? Millainen sää tänään on?	What's the weather like today?
Tänään on hyvä ilma Tänään on hyvä sää	The weather is good today
Tänään on huono ilma Tänään on huono sää	The weather is bad today
Aurinko	Sun
On aurinkoista	It's sunny
Aurinko paistaa	The sun in shining
Ilma on kaunis On kaunis ilma	The weather is beautiful
On kaunis päivä	It's a beautiful day
On lämmin	It's warm
On kuuma	It's hot
Pilvi	cloud
On pilvistä	It's cloudy
tihkusade	drizzle
Sataa tihkua	It's drizzling
Sade	rain
Tulva	flood
Sadekuuro	rain shower
Sataa Sataa vettä	It's raining
On viileä	It's chilly / cool
On melko kylmä	It's fairly cold
On kylmä	It's cold
On jäätävän kylmä	It's freezing cold
On jääkylmää	It's icy cold
Halla	frost
On hallaa On pakkasta	It's frosty
Räntä	sleet
Sataa räntää	It's sleeting
Rakeita	hail
Sataa rakeita	It's hailing
Lumi	snow
Sataa lunta	It's snowing
Tuulta	breeze
Tuuli	wind
Tuulee	It's windy
Tuulee oikein kovasti	It's very windy
On myrsky	There's a (wind)storm
Salama	lightning
Ukkonen	thunder
On ukonilma	There's a thunderstorm
Salamoi	There's lightning
Sumu	mist, foggy
On sumuista	It's misty / foggy
On kosteaa	It's humid
Sateenkaari	rainbow
Aste	temperature

Idioms for heavy rain

Finnish	English
Sataa kuin saavista kaataen	It's pouring like from a big bucket
Sataa kuin Esterin perseestä	It's raining as from Esteri's ass / It's raining like Esther sucks

Other idioms for heavy rain in various languages

Hear some Finnish words and phrases for weather:

Links

More weather words in Finnish
https://uusikielemme.fi/finnish-vocabulary/vocabulary-lists/talking-about-the-weather-ilma-saa-keli
https://www.finnishpod101.com/blog/2020/03/30/weather-in-finnish/

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How to talk about the weather in a variety of languages

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