Weather collocations

The road ran along the flat gray coast and there were drifts of sand in the road that the ______ winds had left there.

• severe

• heavy

• strong

The sky was quite clear and the sea gleamed in the sunlight.

• electric

• clear

• violent

• fine

It was an hour or two past noon on a day of quiet ______ sunshine and gentle breeze.

• glorious

• warm

• strong

• heavy

Frankly, we were more interested in the news that ______ rain was falling to the west of us and might soon reach our own village.

• brilliant

• torrential

• heavy

• rough

The boy watched _________ cloud shadows roll over the fields and pass over the house.

• violent

• thick

• dense

• clear

Why are you wearing your sunglasses? It's _________ black outside.

• really

• gloomy

• dark

• pitch

She came back to her house in a fog so ______ she could almost hold it in her hands.

• heavy

• dense

• hard

• thick

I can smell the sea air, and even though it’s getting dark, it’s still ________ hot.

• scorching

• pretty

• boiling

• heavily

Brrr! It's a ________ cold day!

• hard

• freezing

• crisp

• rough

The socks I was wearing today got _____ wet earlier, so now I have them drying by the heater vent.

• freezing

• heavily

• soaking

• truly