1. General terms |
1.1. Good weather |
alainn | |
1.2. Bad weather |
latha eadar dà shian | weather that is between two extremes. |
1.3. Temperature |
muirteach | can hardly draw your breath. |
1.4. Dryness, wetness |
2. The sky and the weather |
2.1. A clear sky by day |
2.2. A clear night sky |
2.3. A red sky |
2.4. An overcast sky |
sgleo air an adhar | |
2.5. Unusual appearance of the moon or the sun |
2.6. The northern lights |
fir chlis | |
Grioglachan | plaids [sic] [Pleiades?]. |
2.7. Stars |
3. Clouds |
3.1. Light cloud |
3.2. Cirrus cloud |
3.3. Thick cloud |
3.4. Rainbow |
ruinne bò | also used. |
4. Wind |
4.1. Dead calm |
4.2. Light breeze |
4.3. Fresh breeze |
latha fionnar | |
4.4. Gusts |
sguallaichean | |
4.5. Wind of variable direction |
4.6. Strong wind |
4.7. Gale |
4.8. Hurricane |
4.9. Rising wind |
4.10. Dying wind |
4.11. Winds associated with particular seasons of the year |
5. Tides |
5.1. Flowing |
sioladh | |
5.2. Ebbing |
5.3. High tide |
rothart | |
mullach làn àrd | moon at its height. |
5.4. Low tide |
5.5. Spring tide |
5.6. Neap tide |
5.7. Turn of the tide |
6. Weather and the sea |
6.1. A calm sea |
6.2. A light swell |
6.3. A heavy swell |
6.4. A choppy sea |
6.5. A stormy sea |
6.6. Large waves |
6.7. Breakers |
6.8. Surf |
6.9. Spindrift |
7. Rain |
7.1. Drizzle |
uisge bog | |
smugraich | |
7.2. Light shower |
fras | |
7.3. Heavy shower |
7.4. Prolonged rain |
latha druideach | [NOTES: ‘druideach’ corrected to ‘drùiteach’.] |
7.5. Driving rain |
7.6. Getting soaked |
bog fliuch | |
Dhruidh an t-uisge orm. | [NOTES: ‘Dhruidh’ corrected to ‘Dhrùidh’.] |
8. Mist |
8.1. Light mist |
8.2. Heavy mist |
8.3. Sea mist |
8.4. Other terms associated with mist |
9. Thunder and lightning |
9.1. Thunder |
9.2. Lightning |
peadhair | thunderbolt. [NOTES: note added above – peithir.] |
10. Snow and hail |
10.1. Snowflakes |
bleideagan | |
10.2. Sleet |
flìn | |
10.3. Types of snow |
10.4. Driving snow |
cabhadh sneachda | |
10.5. Heavy fall |
10.6. Snowdrifts |
cidheachan sneachda | |
10.7. A few flakes floating in the wind |
10.8. Snowman and rolled ball of snow |
bodach sneachda | |
ball sneachda | |
10.9. Hailstones |
clachan meallain | |
11. Frost |
11.1. Hoarfrost |
11.2. Hard frost |
11.3. Ice |
liath reothadh | |
11.4. Thaw |
aiteabh | |
12. Signs foretelling weather |
12.1. Foretelling good weather. |
[còta] | “An crochadh tu do chota orra [sic].” In reference to the moon. If you could hang your coat on the moon according to its shape then a good day was in prospect. If you could not then the opposite applied. |
12.2 Foretelling bad weather. |
13. General sayings or proverbs connected with the weather |
[earrach] | “Mios faoillaich, naoi latha gearran, trì latha sguabaig, suas an t-earrach.” Used to herald the beginning of spring. |