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Weather Thesaurus

Published: October 11, 2010 by ANGELA ACKERMAN

Below are samples of our popular Weather and Earthly Phenomenon Thesaurus. For the completely developed and enhanced thesaurus, please visit One Stop For Writers, where it has a permanent place within our vast Descriptive Thesaurus Collection.

What is a Weather Thesaurus?

  • Air Pollution
  • Avalanche
  • Blizzard
  • Breeze
  • Clouds
  • Dew
  • Drought
  • Dusk
  • Dust or Sand Storm
  • Earthquake
  • Eclipse
  • Fall
  • Falling Star
  • Flood
  • Forest Fire
  • Frost
  • Hailstorm
  • Heat Wave
  • Hurricane/Typhoon
  • Lightning
  • Mirage
  • Mist or Fog
  • Moonlight
  • Mudslide
  • Rain
  • Rainbow
  • Sky
  • Sleet
  • Snow
  • Spring
  • Summer
  • Sunrise
  • Sunshine
  • Sunset
  • Thunderstorm
  • Tornado
  • Vortex
  • Wind
  • Winter

Visit our other Descriptive Thesaurus Collections HERE.

Weather is a powerful tool, helping to foreshadow events and steer the emotional mood of any scene.

Need more help writing weather elements? Good news! This thesaurus has been integrated into our online library at One Stop For Writers. There, not only has the information in each entry been enhanced and expanded, we’ve also added scenarios for adding conflict and tension. The entire thesaurus is also cross-referenced with our many other descriptive collections for easy searchability. We have a two-week free trial, so if you’re interested in seeing a sampling of the fully updated Weather and Earthly Phenomenon Thesaurus, head on over to One Stop.

ANGELA ACKERMAN
ANGELA ACKERMAN

Angela is a writing coach, international speaker, and bestselling author who loves to travel, teach, empower writers, and pay-it-forward. She also is a founder of One Stop For Writers, a portal to powerful, innovative tools to help writers elevate their storytelling.

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  1. Herb says

    September 16, 2015 at 6:25 pm

    Are these Thesaurus’ just online or in ebooks also? I like your Emotional Thesaurus and the Positive and Negative. I sure could use the other ones if they were in ebook form.
    Thanks

    • BECCA PUGLISI says

      September 17, 2015 at 2:16 pm

      Hi, Herb! Right now, the 3 books you mentioned are the only ones we have in book form. We also have a free booklet called Emotion Amplifiers; that’s a companion to The Emotion Thesaurus and can be picked up at Amazon. The next thesaurus to be published will be the Setting Thesaurus, which will hopefully be available sometime in the spring. I hope this helps!

      • Herb says

        September 17, 2015 at 2:23 pm

        Thanks it does. I’ll just keep coming back to your website for the tips that I need. 🙂

  2. Dan says

    July 10, 2014 at 8:53 am

    This is great.
    I did notice the link to Hurricane/Typhoon goes to Earthquake.

    • ANGELA ACKERMAN says

      July 10, 2014 at 11:35 am

      Whoops–thanks! I’ll fix it. Some of the links were messed up when we moved from blogger to WP. Sorry!

      • ann says

        November 14, 2015 at 11:01 am

        Did Earthquake get deleted during this fix?

        • BECCA PUGLISI says

          November 14, 2015 at 4:25 pm

          I can’t believe this, but I don’t think we ever had earthquake. Which is a glaring hole, lol. Thanks for pointing this out, Ann. And sorry that we didn’t have it for you!

          • ANGELA ACKERMAN says

            November 14, 2015 at 8:53 pm

            No we have it–but somehow it never got linked. Here it is: https://writershelpingwriters.net/2011/06/weather-thesaurus-entry-earthquake/

  3. Annette Taylor says

    December 16, 2013 at 1:32 pm

    Serves as a great reference for writers who have trouble with adding weather to a setting

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