The season had not begun, but the unusually hard weather was driving a number of people back to town.

He hadn't seen her in some time; not since the hard weather eased into a wet spring.

Frost set in that night, heralding a week of hard weather.

The real hard weather's due to set in any day now.

In the west a pile of dark clouds promised more hard weather for later.

These conditions make the weather changeable and hard to predict.

She looked tougher, as though she'd been through hard weather.

That's hard weather coming, perhaps a front of some kind.

Snails are especially important when drought or hard weather makes it difficult to find other food.

We had repairs to do, in the hard weather before Christmas.