"Warm" / "Cool"

[Bobbert]

I only hear hace calor and hace frío as responses to how it feels outside at the current moment temperature-wise. However, too many times, it is neither hot nor cold; it is only warm or cool.

When I use a translator, it also responds with hace calor and hace frío. Are those really the best translations for it is warm outside and/or it is cool outside?

I’m wondering if using calido, caluroso, or fresco are ever used when referring to the temperature, and if they are, are they used with hacer or estar.

So I’m asking how to correctly say:

It is warm outside right now. (It is nowhere near hot)
It is cool outside right now. (It is nowhere near cold)

Explanations and examples are appreciated.

[aleCcowaN]

es un día tórrido
está muy caluroso /hace mucho calor
está caluroso / hace calor
es un día templado / está agradable
está algo fresco
está fresco
hace frío
hace mucho frío
está que hiela / está helado
es un día gélido

[Tomisimo]

I have also heard:


Hace calorcito
Hace friecito

My understanding is these are "less extreme" so they can mean warm and cool respectively. Let's wait for native speakers to confirm or deny... :)

[Bobbert]

Thank you, aleCcowaN and Tomisimo. That's what I needed.

[AngelicaDeAlquezar]

Tomísimo's suggestions are very commonly used in Mexican daily speech. :)

Also, when we mean that the weather is mostly benign, we may also say:
- Está bonito/agradable afuera, no hace ni frío ni calor. (Neutral register)
- Está templadito. -> Daily speech, and this is for not so cold and not so hot. :)

[poli]

La brisa está sabrosa. Although sabrosa means flavorful, at least in Caribbean Spanish, it can be used to express splendid weather. Can this be used in Mexico and Argentina as well?

[Rusty]

I've heard it used that way in Central America.

[AngelicaDeAlquezar]

La brisa está sabrosa. Although sabrosa means flavorful, at least in Caribbean Spanish, it can be used to express splendid weather. Can this be used in Mexico and Argentina as well?


Yes, "sabroso" is also used to mean "pleasant", although it depends on the speaker; the adjective may be used ironically:

- ¿Qué tal el calor?
- Está sabroso. (Meaning it's really hot, and that's not necessarily a pleasant thing.)

- Anoche hacía un frío, pero bien sabroso. (It was extremely cold.)

As for "la brisa", I've only heard it used at the coasts. Never in Central Mexico, but "la brisa está sabrosa" would definitely mean it's pleasant out there. :)

[aleCcowaN]

La brisa está sabrosa. Although sabrosa means flavorful, at least in Caribbean Spanish, it can be used to express splendid weather. Can this be used in Mexico and Argentina as well?

Dominican immigrants use it. Agradable is the international, localism free, version of it. Hay un vientito lindo is what we'd say in my part of the country. Even un vientito estimulante, as una brisa agradable invites you to do physical activities in the open, or take a walk, visit the commercial district, etc. Brisa is a pretty formal word here, yet understood to everyone.