Weather

To announce the weather, the verb 'aq predict, prognosticate is used in phrases like SIS 'e' 'aqlu' one predicts that it rains. (1) This construction is a sentence as object where "it rains" is the object of the verb 'aq. Weather forecasts tend to use 'e' -lu' over net, but using net would not be wrong. (2)

Weather forecast in Klingon

After receiving lots of new words relating the weather at qep'a' in 2017, wiki contributor Marc Zankl programmed a weather forecast app in Klingon, capable of showing the weather forecast for the following hour of each city in the world. It should work on every browser with activated JavaScript.

Weather forecast for Chicago:

To change the location, just enter it in the field and hit "Change location". The place can be specified by adding a two digit country code, e.g. Berlin,de.

To program this function, the following steps were used:

A free API_code was aquired at openweathermap.org; it makes it possible to make 60 requests per minute.
The app analyses the codes on https://openweathermap.org/weather-conditions. These are neutral to language.

Weather related vocabulary

Seasons

Okrand has never responded on how to talk about Klingon (or Terran) seasons, but he has slipped two phrases that can be used to refer to the seasons by describing them:

qImroq tuj summer, literally "hot season"
qImroq bIrqu' winter, literally "very cold season"

Verbs

Nearly all words relating to the weather are verbs, there probably are no nouns for those weather conditions.

SIS	it rains
peD	it snows
tuD	it thunders
raw	it lightnings
Heq	it hails
jev	it storms
cheq	it storms like a tornado
vung	it storms like a hurricane/cyclone

nouns

chal bIQ	rain	refers to the water itself, not the rain falling from the sky
chal chuch	snow	literally: sky ice
chuch 'aplom	hailstone	literally: ice pallet
'aplom chuch	hailstone	literally: pallet ice
pe'bIl	lightning	-