stormy sky
Dark, roiling clouds
A stormy sky is dark, turbulent, and threatening rain or worse—heavy clouds, perhaps lightning in the distance.
The phrase appears literally in weather descriptions but also figuratively for ominous situations: There were stormy skies ahead for the struggling company.
In art and photography, stormy skies provide dramatic backdrops.
- thundercloudsStorm-bearing atmospheric formations
- lightningAtmospheric electrical discharge
- darkAbsence of light
- ominousSuggesting something bad approaches
- brewingBeverage preparation process
dark clouds · bolt of lightning · tempest · wind · rain · rolling thunder · turbulent · menacing · grey · brooding · dramatic · low rumble · rumbling · foreboding · overcast · weather front · angry · churning
- weather scenesmisty morning, rainy street, thunder clouds, blizzard, sandstorm
- Classical LandscapesArcadia, Roman ruins, Greek temple, cypress trees, rolling hills
- landscapesmountain, valley, hills, landscape, scenery
- landscape paintingsrolling hills, misty valley, mountain vista, meadow, river bend