The phrase "abrupt weather" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe sudden and unexpected changes in weather conditions.
Example: "The forecast predicted sunny skies, but we were caught off guard by the abrupt weather that brought heavy rain and strong winds."
Alternatives: "sudden weather" or "unexpected weather".
More often an abrupt weather change or a runaway canopy is to blame.
The first—"If you don't like the weather, wait an hour and it will change"—may have something to do with the fact that temperature and precipitation, borne by prairie winds from Iowa or Minnesota, routinely collide with conditions generated by Lake Michigan to produce abrupt weather alterations.
The Bush administration has been working for months to keep an upcoming eight-nation report from endorsing broad policies aimed at curbing global warming, according to domestic and foreign participants, despite the group's conclusion that Arctic latitudes are facing historic increases in temperature, glacial melting and abrupt weather changes.
The chief executive, Ian Cheshire, said on Thursday: "The story of this quarter was the abrupt, poor weather impact across France, the UK and Poland in March and the first two weeks of April.
What happened in Lapland was, on the surface at least, not unusual, abrupt short-term weather change possibly caused by a convoluted jet stream.
Don't get caught out in the rain in inappropriate clothes, and always be prepared for abrupt changes in weather, given the season that you're dressing for.
The investigation prompted the abrupt retirement of the weather service's director, John L. "Jack Hayess, after the agency's chief financial officer was replaced.
A blue fairy can provide that, but the search for her and a motherly experience will need 2,000 years, not to mention an abrupt change in the weather.
Among many other things, scientists have predicted more and more intense heat waves, more volatile weather, more abrupt changes in the landscape, more destruction from invasive pests, more illness from microbes flourishing in warmer fresh water and more urban flooding.
Just a few short miles from the hotel there was an abrupt change in the weather, as the wind whipped into a gale and snow started flying.
Prepare for abrupt changes in New Orleans weather.
