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Weather in Different Countries (不同国家天气) Key Points for Referrence:(供参考的闪光语言点) 1.Sunny,Cloudy,Snowy,Rainy,Windy; 2.It is rainning cats and dogs = It is rainning heavily 3.Bright The sky is covered by a large amount of thin cloud with sunshine occasionally. 4.Cloudy The sky is covered with a total cloud amount of between six eighths and eight eighths. 5.Cold front The boundary line between an advancing cold air mass and a warm air mass. During the passage of a cold front, the local weather changes as follows : pressure increasing, temperature falling, wind veering (clockwise change in direction), accompanied by showers and thunderstorms. Generally, the cold fronts in southern China is not strong and may not bring so remarkable weather changes as mentioned above. 6.Depression / Cyclone / Area of low pressure When the atmospheric pressure over a region is lower than its surrounding, the system is called a depression or cyclone. The area of a depression has no definite size and its diameter can range from 100 km to 2 000 km. The weather under an area of low pressure is generally unstable. The air mass surrounding a depression will move counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere, and clockwise in the southern hemisphere. 7.Drizzle Precipitation of water drops of very small size. 8.Fine The sky is covered by a total cloud amount of less than six eighths. However, it can still be described as fine even though the total cloud amount is greater than six eighths if the cloud layer is thin enough to let plenty of sunshine to penetrate. 9.Fog, Foggy, Mist, Misty, Haze, Hazy Fog is the suspension of small particles formed by the condensation of water vapour in the air near the ground surface, reducing the visibility to less than 1 000 m; it is called mist if the reduced visibility is equal to or above 1 000 m; it is called haze if the visibility is reduced due to small dust or smoke.
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