Quick answer
Hace mucho calor, más de cuarenta grados.
It is very hot, over forty degrees. Spanish uses hacer plus a noun here, never "to be" plus an adjective.
The words
| Spanish | English |
|---|---|
| el tiempo | the weather |
| el sol | the sun |
| la lluvia | the rain |
| la nube | the cloud |
| el viento | the wind |
| la tormenta | the storm |
| la nieve | the snow |
| el calor | the heat |
| el frío | the cold |
| la temperatura | the temperature |
| el paraguas | the umbrella |
| la sombra | the shade |
| la niebla | the fog |
| el grado | the degree |
| la ola de calor | the heatwave |
The phrases you will actually say
Worth knowing
Spanish weather talk splits into three patterns that you simply have to learn as blocks: hace for heat, cold, wind and sun, está for nublado and despejado, and a plain verb for llueve and nieva. Beyond grammar, heat shapes the day in the south. Between roughly two and five in the afternoon in July many small shops close, streets empty and people walk on the shaded side of the road on purpose, which is why la sombra comes up so often. In the Canary Islands you will also hear la calima, a haze of Saharan dust that turns the sky orange and coats cars in sand, and locals treat it as its own kind of weather.
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