Though traditionally Brazil has had few natural disasters, global warming has begun to change that trend, so let’s take a look at some weather vocabulary:
hurricane: furacão [foo-rah-cownn]
tornado: tornado [tor-nah-doh]
flood: inundação [een-oon-dah-sownn]
earthquake: terremoto [teh-heh-moh-toh]
storm: tempestade [temp-est-ah-gee]
water spout: trombra d’água [trohm-brah dah-gwah]
This water spout, right, was spotted in Santarém, in the north of Brazil last week.
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Tromba d’agua is a formal form for water spout, but we have in Portuguese another expression usually used by Brazilians in an informal context: Pé d’agua.
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