The language of weather has hundreds of termsthat we have come to understand, yet there are still manythat are “new” to us. These terms have a rich history evolving from ancient times to the people-of-the-land, who had their own expressions, to the modern scientist who first expresses a term to describe an atmospheric phenomenon he or she is studying.

The term meteorology goes back to the Greek philosopher Aristotle, who in 340 B.C.