broken weather

The whole house would be consumed by the fever of haytime, the fear of broken weather until every wisp was won.

Smoke was a giveaway for the police, so windy, broken weather was chosen to disperse the smoke.

Rainbows occur frequently here due to the vast open sky and broken weather that passes over the Great Laramie Plains."

At first we thought that this looked like a thunder-cloud; and, as we had had a good deal of broken weather of late, accompanied by occasional peals of thunder, we supposed that a storm must be approaching.

High Spicer, for example writes: "And in broken weather the clouds would lie like a dingy blanket upon the heights until the wind blew them over, or the sun pierced them, and revealed the spire of Goatfell or the majestic figure of the Sleeping Warrior."