A weather forecast is a prevision of the weather over a short period of time. Of course, in Spring, predicting the weather is very unpredictable [1]. But that doesn’t stop weathermen from trying!
When making predictions, we tend to use the future simple (will + infinitive): It will rain tomorrow.
It is also common to use the future continuous (will be + gerund) for a prolonged future action: It will be raining tomorrow.
Some weather words, those which refer to precipitation (like rain or snow) are both verbs and nouns. But others, like sun, cloud, wind and fog are only nouns. So you have to use the verb be + the adjective form to predict the weather. Turning these weather nouns into adjectives is quite simple, all you have to do is add Y at the end: rainy, snowy, windy, cloudy, sunny, foggy. (notice that sunny and foggy double the last consonant before adding Y at the end).
For example, you can’t say: It will sun tomorrow.
But you can say: It’ll be sunny tomorrow.
And here are couple of Spring expressions to leave you with:
April showers [2] bring May flowers.
Spring comes in like a lion but goes out like a lamb.
[1] imprevisible, [2] chubasco
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