Ciao a tutti!

Fa freddo da me (It’s cold where I am), although not as cold as where I am originally from since I’ve been checking and comparing the weather to my hometown this past week. But all the same, c’è un’ondata di freddo (there’s a cold spell) where I am now and presumably for a lot of you as well. So let’s share some ways to talk about this winter weather that so many of us are experiencing.

Vocabulary:

Fa freddo – It’s cold

Fa freddissimo – It’s really cold

È gelido – It’s freezing

È ghiacciato – It’s frosty

Fa un freddo pungente – It’s bitterly cold

Ho la pelle d’oca – I have goose bumps

C’è un’ondata di freddo – There’s a a cold spell

Sto congelando – I am freezing cold

Nevica / C’è la neve – It’s snowing

Expressions:

Oggi fa un freddo cane – Today it’s dog cold – It’s extremely cold

C’è un freddo da morire!* – There is a cold to die for – It’s extremely cold

Si muore di freddo – One dies from the cold weather – It’s extremely cold

Che freddo, ho i brividi – What cold, I have the shivers!

Piove sempre sul bagnato. – It always rains on the wet ground – It never rains, but it pours

Piove a catinelle – It’s raining buckets – It’s raining cats and dogs

Tempo da lupi – wolf weather – bad weather

This rhyme predicts the weather depending upon the color of the sky at night or morning…

Rosso di sera, bel tempo si spera – Red at night, good weather one hopes

Rosso di mattina, il mal tempo si avvicina – Red in the morning, bad weather is getting near

And lastly…

Piove, governo ladro! – It rains, blame the government!

This popular exclamation is just an ironic way to blame the government for everything. ?

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La temperatura – temperature

La temperatura in Italia è espressa con la scala Celsius. The temperature in Italy is expressed with the Celsius scale.

Some conversions for temperature:

• 0 degrees Celsius is equal to 32 degrees Fahrenheit. (The freezing point)
• 32 degrees Celsius is 90 degrees Fahrenheit
• 24 degrees Celsius is 75 degrees Fahrenheit
• 10 degrees Celsius is 50 degrees Fahrenheit
• To convert Celsius (c) to Fahrenheit, use the formula (c x 1.8) + 32

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Allora – c’è un freddo da morire da voi? So, is there a freezing cold where you’re at?

*you can use the expression da morire in other instances as well – ho fame da morire! (I’m extremely hungry) È noiso da morire! (It’s extremely boring)