stormy skies
Dark clouds overhead
Stormy skies are skies darkened by storm clouds, threatening or producing rain, wind, thunder, or lightning.
The phrase often appears in weather reports and literature to set an ominous mood: We set sail under stormy skies.
Figuratively, stormy skies suggest trouble ahead: The company faces stormy skies after the scandal.
- thundercloudsStorm-bearing atmospheric formations
- lightningAtmospheric electrical discharge
- rolling thunderProlonged atmospheric reverberation
- darkAbsence of light
- ominousSuggesting something bad approaches
dark clouds · turbulent · tempest · brooding · grey · rumbling · downpour · heavy rain · menacing · winds · wind gusts · looming · dramatic · overcast · squall · rough weather · foreboding · rain
- skiesclouds, night sky, heavens, firmament, cloudscapes
- weatherweather, rain, sun, snow, wind
- RomanticismWilliam Blake, the sublime, J.M.W. Turner, Eugene Delacroix, emotionalism
- Impressionismwater lilies, Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Giverny, Monet
weather condition
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Absence of cloud cover
sunny skies · blue skies · fair weather · settled weather · sunshine
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