Tell me about a time the weather completely changed your plans.

A natural way to answer

We'd organised an outdoor barbecue for about twenty people, but heavy rain rolled in that morning. We didn't want to call it off completely, so we moved everything indoors. It was cramped, but in the end everyone had a great time.

Key phrases to use

• rolled in — (of clouds, fog or a storm) arrived gradually and spread across the sky“Dark clouds rolled in just before lunch.”
• call it off — cancel a planned event or activity“We had to call off the picnic because of the rain.”
• in the end — finally, after everything that happened, as the final result“In the end, we stayed home and it was lovely.”