The weather is too charming to be dining in tonight.

Yes, it's fine.

For weather, I have heard "gorgeous", "beautiful", "marvolous", "perfect" day/ evening etc...All have elements implying a warm, sunny with blue sky, or bright moon with starry sky kind of weather.

How do we define "charming weather"? I'd like to know...

Charming –adjective
pleasing; delightful

Also, try Google or a language corpus before you opine, Goodman: [url=http://www.google.co.jp/se

Appreciate the links. I fully understand what "charming" means. But seeing applied on weather is the first.

Well, you learn something new every day, as they say.
This is the first time I've even seen charming applied to weather.
Maybe I should get out more?

CalifJimWell, you learn something new every day, as they say.

I am a firm believer of that saying. My problem is, trying too hard on figuring out the how true something is. So I remain skeptical until convinced.

Hi Tom

Here is my two cents:

I don't hear weather described as "charming" too often, but my ear doesn't reject it and I don't think the way you've used it is wrong. It might be more common to talk about a day being charming, though.

Interestingly, a simple Google search of "charming weather" and "marvelous weather" suggests that "charming weather" is used almost three t

Yankee
I don't hear weather described as "charming" too often, but my ear doesn't reject it and I don't think the way you've used it is wrong. It might be more common to talk about a day being charming, though.

Interestingly, a simple Google search of "charming weather" and "marvelous weather" suggests that "charming weather" is used almost three times as oft

Hi,

Personally, I tend to associate 'charming' with something involving human artifice in some way.

I wouldn't see a wildflower and call it charming. But if someone gave me that flower, I might call it charming, because of the intention with which it was given. Or if I saw a garden full of flowers planted by someone, I could think it a charming sight.

Best wishes, Clive

There must be a lot of personal preference involved in the use of the word "charming" because I would have no problem whatsoever referring to a flower as "charming".

Of course, it probably would not be something such as a dandelion that I might think of as charming.