cold weather — low temperature
collocationB1IELTS 5+neutralcommon
A period when the air outside is much colder than usual, often making you feel chilly or needing to wear warm clothes.
Say it like a native
Textbook The atmospheric temperature has decreased to an uncomfortable degree.
Native The weather's turned really cold.
Natives just say 'cold weather' or 'it's turned cold'; the formal paraphrase is comically over-engineered.
Pattern: cold weather (noun phrase); used as subject or object
In use
- Cold weather makes me want to stay inside and drink hot chocolate.daily life
- In my country, cold weather usually starts in November, and people often wear thick jackets to stay warm.IELTS speaking
Common mistake
✗ I don't like the cold weathers here.
✓ I don't like the cold weather here.
'Weather' is uncountable — no plural 'weathers'.
Common collocations
cold weather— bitterly, in, this, a spell of
Don't confuse it
Compare with 'cool weather' (a little cold, but not uncomfortable) and 'cold climate' (a place that is usually cold).