English Phrasal Verbs connected to Weather Learn English with Harry ??

English Phrasal Verbs connected to Weather Learn English with Harry ?? Here you will learn English phrasal verbs connected to weather. 10 Phrasal Verbs connected to Weather Hi there, this is Harry and welcome to my English learning podcast where we try to help you to understand some aspects of the English language.I help you with your conversational English, business English and a general understanding of certain grammar points.So today, we’re going to look at some phrasal verbs and in this context, we’re going to look at themed phrasal verbs. So the theme for these phrasal verbs is those connected to the theme of weather.Something we all like to talk about, and we all like to occupy ourselves. Whether you’re living in the UK or France or Spain or wherever the weather is always a very topical aspect. Particularly, in northern Europe.So, let’s look at some phrasal verbs connected to weather.TO CLOUD OVERMeaning: when the sky begins, and eventually, gets covered in grey clouds, whether light-grey or dark-grey.So we can wake up and say:So the day started brightly with sunshine and blue sky. As the day progressed it clouded over.Meaning the clouds c overed the sky.And at the beginning of the day, we can use two phrasal verbs or one phrasal verb with two different prepositions. We can say TO START OFF or TO START OUT.For example:The day started off brightThe day started out bright.The meaning is exactly the same.TO START OFF / START OUT means to begin.The day started off bright but, as the day progressed, it changed.OrThe day started off quite brightly but around lunch time it clouded over.So I can include both of those phrasal verbs in that particular sentence.The day started out quite brightly but, as the day progressed, it got gradually worse. There are couple of phrasal verbs that we can use in connection to very heavy rain.TO POUR DOWNMeaning: to rain exceptionally heavily, as if it’s poured out of a glassThe rain was pouring down.It was pouring down with rain.TO BUCKET DOWNMeaning: to rain heavily, more informal than TO POUR DOWNYesterday it bucketed down.Finally, some weather phrasal verbs with a little brighter outlook.TO BRIGHTEN UPMeans: to improve, the sky will become lighterExample:The day brightened up as we got near to tea time.TO CLEAR UPMeaning: to become brighter, to improve, it will stop being rainy or cloudyThe day began to clear up around noon. 10 Phrasal Verbs connected to Weather TO PICK UPMeaning: to get better graduallyExample: The weather is not so good at the moment. Do you think the day would pick up? I think it will pick up later on.We can also use TO PICK UP if we’re talking about wind speeds.Winds will pick up later in the afternoon, becoming strong by the evening.Meaning wind speed will increase, winds will become stronger.TO DIE OUTMeaning: to slowly disappear and stop completelyExample:Today we have very strong winds and that has brought a lot of heavy rain but by later afternoon these winds and the heavy rain will begin to die out.TO LET UPMeaning: to stop or improveExample:The weather recently has been freezing cold but the weather forecast says it will let up by the weekend.Okay, so there are the phrasal verbs connected to weather:Cloud overStart outStart offBucket downPour downBrighten upClear upPick upDie outLet upThat’s the end of today’s episode. Listen to Speak Better English with Harry English learning podcast on iTunes, Spotify and Stitcher.